The sea-buckthorn grows wild in some areas of the Asia, particularly in Siberia; therefore, it is widely used in ethnomedicine here as well as in Tibet. Tibetan lamas still consider the sea-buckthorn as one of the most valuable medicaments. Even looking from the point of view of modern knowledge one can say that descriptions of its miraculous qualities are not just exaggeration. For instance, fruits of the sea-buckthorn are really incomparable product among others as foodstuff or source material for medicine.
Fruits of the sea-buckthorn contain a lot of biologically active ingredients, e.g. carotenoids, vitamins C, E and K, several vitamins of the group B, vitamin F or concentrate of irreplaceable unsaturated fatty acid.
Carotenoids contain the carotenes responsible for forming of the vitamin A in the human body. Carotenes as well as vitamin A absorbs only if it is dissolved in fat, therefore, e.g., carrots are better used if prepared with oil, butter or cream. Advantage of fruits of the sea-buckthorn is that the carotenoids are already in content of the oily pulp (up to 8%) and kernel (up to 13%).
Another significant advantage of the sea-buckthorn is that its fruits and products not only contain a lot of the vitamin C, but preserve it well in contrary to quickly volatile hips of a brier-rose or fruits of a blackcurrant.
Comparing content of vitamin E in fruits of wild and garden, only cloudberries prevail. In its turn, fruits of the sea-buckthorn contain 2 – 3 times more of the vitamin K than other cultivated plants.
Initially, researchers accredited unsaturated fatty acids, vital to avoid the health disorders, as vitamins and gave them a name of the vitamin F.
Nowadays mentioning the vitamin F we mean the group of these acids and we call them irreplaceable because they are not produced in a human body or are produced insufficiently. Therefore, it is necessary to ingest them with a food. Thus all the products containing unsaturated fatty acids are crucial part of our daily ratio, forming other fatty acids and metabolites, being so important for normal metabolism and maintenance of many significant functions of a human body.
All the mentioned above proves that the juice of the sea-buckthorn has excellent nutritional value as a natural source of polyvitamins and unsaturated fatty acids to supply a human body with vital nutritients. Including the naturally rich juice of the sea-buckthorn in our daily ratio it will be extremely sustainable, especially for those living or working in unfavourable working conditions as heat, frostiness, humidity, chemicals, ionizing radiation, strain, exhaustion and to optimize recuperation. Addicted persons, e.g. smokers need increased amount of the vitamin C every day; it helps to the alcoholics as supplementary aid to prevent toxic damages to their leaver and to detoxicate from alcohol.