What are the effects of thorn lily?

The thorn lily is a plant with great medicinal value, especially for indigestion and other symptoms, it has a strong healing effect. The sea buckthorn in Guizhou is the most famous because it mostly grows on the plateau. The effects and functions of thorn lily are many, the main one is that it can improve stomach function and prevent many diseases. In addition, there are many ways to eat prickly ash, and soaking it in water is the most common, simple and convenient way.

Effects of thorny lily

1. Enhance the body's immune function: Seabuckthorn juice not only significantly affects the nonspecific immune function of animals, such as promoting the proliferation of normal spleen cells and enhancing the phagocytic function of intraperitoneal macrophages; it also has obvious effects on specific immune functions, such as increasing the number of B lymphocytes, enhancing the function of B lymphocytes to secrete antibodies, increasing peripheral blood T lymphocytes, and enhancing the activity of spleen natural killer cells.

2. Delaying aging: Studies have found that sea buckthorn juice can significantly reduce the free radical content and lipofuscin level in animal heart, liver, and brain, increase the number of lymphocytes, red blood cells, white blood cells and neutrophils, and increase serum protein content, indicating that sea buckthorn has the effect of delaying aging. Japanese scholars have found through research that sea buckthorn juice has a significant scavenging effect on superoxide free radicals, hydroxyl free radicals, diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl free radicals and carbon-center free radicals.

3. Anti-atherosclerosis: Consuming sea buckthorn juice can lower the levels of cholesterol, triglycerides and lipid peroxides in the blood, increase SOD activity, adjust lipid metabolism in hyperlipidemia, reduce blood viscosity, reduce lipid peroxidation damage, reduce the degree of arterial lesions, and prevent hypertension and arteriosclerosis. Seabuckthorn juice can reduce various lipoproteins in a dose-dependent manner, and its effect is significantly higher than the same dose of vitamin C and vitamin E preparations. After taking sea buckthorn juice orally, the levels of vitamin C and vitamin E in the plasma of patients with coronary heart disease increased significantly.

Effect of thorny lily:

1. Anti-tumor effect: Modern medicine believes that N-nitroso compounds are a strong carcinogen, and sea buckthorn can block the synthesis of nitrosamines in the body. Studies on voluntary human subjects have shown that sea buckthorn can reduce the synthesis of nitrosamines in the body by 75%. Rosa roxburghii juice has a significant inhibitory effect on the proliferation of human leukemia K562 tumor cells; the active ingredients extracted from Rosa roxburghii also have a significant inhibitory effect on the proliferation of gastric cancer (MKN-45T SGC-7901), human liver cancer (SM-MMC7721) and endometrial adenocarcinoma (JEC) cells.

2. Stomachic effect: Seabuckthorn fruit can strengthen the spleen and aid digestion, and has an atropine-like analgesic effect. The decoction of sea buckthorn root has medicinal value in preventing and treating stomach diseases and protecting gastric mucosa.

3. Anti-stress: Seabuckthorn can significantly enhance the mice's tolerance to hypoxia and fatigue. Rosa roxburghii polysaccharides can also improve the ability of mice to withstand high and low temperatures.

4. Prevention and treatment of diabetes: Rosa roxburghii flavonoids can significantly reduce serum glucose and triglycerides in mice, increase serum insulin, significantly increase the activity of pancreatic SOD and catalase, and significantly reduce malondialdehyde (MDA), thereby protecting the pancreas and preventing diabetes.

5. Other effects: Studies have shown that sea buckthorn can also improve the fertility of male mice. In addition, sea buckthorn has many effects such as eliminating fatigue, improving sleep, increasing vitality, eliminating spots, beautifying the skin, etc., and has the effect of strengthening the body.