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Properties, Medicinal use
H. rhamnoides is widely used in traditional medicine,
particularly in Russia and Northeast Asia. The leaves are used
as supposed herbal medicine for various disorders. H.
rhamnoides fruits have also been used in the traditional
Austrian medicine internally as tea, juice, or syrup for
treatment of infections.
Gastronomic use
Fruits are processed in the food industry to
different products. Usually, the berries are first
washed and then pressed, resulting in press-
cake and juice. The fruit press cake can be used
to gain oil, natural food colour pigments
(yellow/orange) or jam while the juice is further
processed and then packaged as final juice
Sea buckthorn based preparations have been
product.
extensively exploited in folklore treatment of
slow digestion, stomach malfunctioning,
cardiovascular problems, liver injury, tendon
and ligament injuries, skin diseases and ulcers.
Even in countries where there is no sea
buckthorn production, at least a few products
can be found. It is usually possible to buy jam or
fruit concentrate, fruit juices and some
cosmetics, such as hand cream, shampoo or
The leaves of the shrub can be air dried, massage oils. In southern France for example, H.
eventually ground and used for tea. The drying rhamnoides is commonly sold as fruit juice or as
and milling process do not cause considerable an ingredient in non-alcoholic and alcoholic
losses of bioactive substances and thus confer a mixed beverages. Typical liquor produced at the
healthy composition to the infusion. same latitudes in Italy, Tuscany, is the officinal
Tuscan liquor – Spinello.