• Company Profile

Gansu Alkog Sea-buckthorn Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., taking advantage of Zhang County which is named as "Town of Sea-buckthorn in China", sticks to the market-oriented principle, takes scientific and technological innovation as the driving force and achieving the globalization of sea-buckthorn industry as the goal, and is striving to be a leader in the sea-buckthorn healthy life industry.

Founded in July 2014, Gansu Alkog Sea-buckthorn Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. lies in Zhang County Industrial Park covering an area of 13500 m2. Now it has more than 100 employees and more than 20 million yuan of fixed assets. It has advanced CO2 above-critical sea-buckthorn oil extraction plant and perfect quality control and inspection means, and is a high tech enterprise incorporating production and sales. It mainly produces sea-buckthorn materials, sea-buckthorn oil, sea-buckthorn health products, sea-buckthorn foods, sea-buckthorn personal care products, and sea-buckthorn cosmetics. The products have won the consistent praises by domestic and foreign customers after they are launched.

• Product description

Seabuckthorn is a medicinal food containing vitamins, trace elements, amino acids and other biologically active substances. With a long history of more than two hundred million years on earth, this plant can survive in the harsh environment of the desert and alpine mountains. It is the only plant growing in the area of feldspathic sandstone called the cancer of the Earth, a plant growing in pollute-free environment and called the VC King in the world of plants. It is the most ecologically valuable in the large-scale development of the western region in China. It is recorded in Chinese Pharmacopoeia and pharmacopoeias in other parts of the world, and recognized as a medicinal and edible plant by the China’s Ministry of Health.

Seabuckthorn is a collective name for the plant and its fruit. Belonging to Elaeagnaceae Hippophae, it is a deciduous shrub with characteristics such as drought tolerance, anti-sandstorm, and the ability to survive salinized land, so it is widely used for soil and water conservation. It is distributed in the north, northwest, southwest and other places of China. Seabuckthorn is a medicinal and edible plant. Seabuckthorn’s root, stem, leaf, flower, fruit (especially, fruit is rich in nutrients and bioactive substances) can be widely used in many areas of the national economy, e.g. food, medicine, light industry, aerospace, agriculture, animal husbandry and fishery. Seabuckthorn’s fruit is medicinally effective in treating cough and phlegm, appetite and digestion, and blood stasis. Modern medical research shows that seabuckthorn can lower cholesterol, relieve angina attack, prevent and treat coronary atherosclerotic heart disease.

• Pharmacological Effect

This product, natural oil extracted from seabuckthorn, contains more than 100 bioactive substances. Ingredients are various vitamins, β-carotene, all kinds of amino acids, fatty acids and unsaturated fatty acids, trace elements, flavonoids and etc.

The seed has fatty acids, such as palmitic acid, stearic acid, oleic acid, linoleic acid, linolenic acid. Non-saponified substances include zeaxanthin, cryptoxanthin, alpha-, gamma-, and δ-carotenes, sitosterol, β-sitosterol can-of β -D-glucoside, and phosphatide. The peel has serotonin and glucofrangulin. The leaf has ascorbic acid, dehydroascorbic acid, isorhamnetin, and carotene. The root bark has alkaloids, and the root nodule contains hemin.