The Revelation of Sea Buckthorn

Liu Yue

More than 50 years ago, the Chinese People's Liberation Army marched into Tibet, severe altitude sickness and vitamin deficiency, threatening hundreds of thousands of troops entering Tibet, at the time of crisis, an orange Tibetan wild fruit called "Darib", so that the soldier's illness was quickly alleviated.

Legend has it that during the Three Kingdoms period, during an eastern expedition of the Shu Kingdom, the Shu army came to the Jinsha River and the Lancang River, and due to the treacherous mountain roads, the people were tired and tired, and the grain and grass could not be helped, and soon fell into a dangerous situation of hunger and infirmity. At this time, someone found a plant called "thorn fruit" in the wilderness, and the bright fruit hung on the branches, but no one dared to eat it. It was not until a few days later that the soldiers found that some of the war horses had eaten these wild fruits and quickly recovered their strength, and they all ate and survived the difficulties.

Stories and legends have nothing to draw on, and there is a common feature that are very pleasant to end. The difference is that the legend is a thing of the past, and the story continues...

History is a textbook page by page to show us, according to the record: sea buckthorn first originated from the ancient Mediterranean coast, and then as the area of the Mediterranean gradually decreased, gradually migrated to the temperate and cold zones of Eurasia.

China's Xinjiang, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Shaanxi, Gansu, many places have, Heilongjiang Alone Harbin City planted millions of acres of transformation of barren mountains, saline land. This shows that no matter where it goes, it is tenacious to adapt to the environment and survive.

Sea buckthorn is the oldest plant in the world at the same time as the dinosaurs.

Sea buckthorn, a plant that has lived on the earth for more than 200 million years, is not afraid of freezing at minus 50 ° C, not afraid of heat at 60 ° C above zero, and can still grow tenaciously in extreme deserts and alpine mountains, extremely resistant to drought and cold, and is a veritable native plant of adversity.

The Mongolian-Tibetan "Four Pharmacopoeias" record its miraculous effects.

Sea buckthorn is a deciduous shrub that is drought-tolerant, wind-resistant and can survive on saline alkalized lands, so it is widely used for soil and water conservation. Sea buckthorn is cultivated in large quantities in northwest China for desert greening.

In 1997, China officially included sea buckthorn in the Pharmacopoeia of the People's Republic of China. Modern research has shown that sea buckthorn is extremely rich in vitamin CE A P carotene, catechins, coumarins, flavonoids, fatty acids (unsaturated), organic acids and essential amino acids and nearly 20 trace elements for humans. Sea buckthorn fruit has a high content of vitamin C and is known as the king of vitamin C.

Sea buckthorn can be used both food and medicine, and the former Soviet Union used it as an essential food for astronauts. Sea buckthorn and Gagarin, a former Soviet cosmonaut Gagarin, took a large amount of sea buckthorn oil before completing the first spacewalk to prevent the radiation of cosmic rays and the damage caused by the space environment such as temperature fusion and weightlessness.

There is a kind of brown horse chicken listed as a national second-level protected wild animal, it is draped with a blue-brown feather, a magnificent posture, but in the process of artificial breeding, there is a tail feather shedding, the hair color is dull and dull phenomenon, this problem has not been solved for a long time, until a few years ago, after careful research by scientific researchers found that the brown horse chicken in the wild state, its important habitat is the sea buckthorn forest, it is precisely because of the long-term eating of sea buckthorn leaves and fruits, so that it has such beautiful feathers, Breeders began artificially feeding brown horse chickens sea buckthorn pomace and leaves, and after a few months, the rare birds of the jungle became prettier again.

In ancient times, sea buckthorn has always been a traditional miracle medicine of Uyghur, Mongolian, Tibetan and other ethnic groups, and the masses in Qilian, Datong and other places in Qinghai Province processed the ripe fruits of wild sea buckthorn for the treatment of asthma and stomach diseases. Villagers in the Hotan region of Xinjiang often eat sea buckthorn homemade jam or boiled soup, which has the effect of tonifying the lungs, dispersing stasis and enhancing appetite.

The indigenous people of Siberia have long used sea buckthorn fruit (other subspecies) to make a variety of delicious foods. Later, the Mongolian People's Republic also promoted the production of fruit soup, jam, soft fructose, jelly, fruit puree, preserved fruit and dew juice and other foods.

Mr. Qian Xuesen, a scientist, said: "With the development of bioengineering and biotechnology, sea buckthorn will lead the sixth industrial revolution in human history.

The spirit of sea buckthorn tells us that we are not afraid of the saline land of congenital poverty and the harsh growth environment of high temperature, low cold. What is shown to the world is that it is not afraid of difficulties and obstacles, and the tenacious life of self-improvement and perseverance!