HIPPOPHAE
The
Hippophae L is one of the oldest land plants. Uncultivated in shrub form of
the wider region of Eurasia. In the campaigns of Alexander the Great was
observed that the sick and injured horses were cured by eating the leaves and
fruit of the plant and began to polish the hair, from this observation was the
name of the (horse - faos = horse that shines).
So they began using it and his
soldiers with him, to be more powerful in the campaigns. Hippophaes mentioned
by Theophrastus, a student of Aristotle, but mainly by Dioscorides Anazarbus
the father of pharmacology.
References to Hippophaes exist in Tibetan and
Chinese medicine. From 1929, when it was first performed biochemical analysis
of the plant's fruit, knowledge of the medicinal properties of the plant are
increasing.
It contains more than 190 nutritional and biological substances.
