Zhang County of Gansu has a long history of planting sea buckthorn, and Zhang County is one of the major producing areas of sea buckthorn in China. Sea buckthorn distributes everywhere in the whole county. For a long time, there have been natural sea buckthorn forests in Zhang County. At present, the sea buckthorn forests cover a total area of 300 thousand mu, which ensures an adequate material supply.

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.

Sea-buckthorn leaves contain several biologically active substances, mainly including more than twenty types of flavonoids and polyphenolic substances, alkaloid (5-hydroxytryptamine and SOD), vitamins C, E, A, B1, B2, K and carotin, trace elements, calcium, iron, zinc, ketone, selenium, amino acids (including 8 kinds of essential amino acids which are not contained by foods and which can't be synthesized by the human body).

Functions of the active ingredients: 

• Remove fatigue and prevent insomnia:

Vitamin C contained in sea-buckthorn tea can improve the vitality of brain cells and the brain's ability to resist oxygen deficiency, and can remove fatigue. Sea-buckthorn tea contains less caffeine than other tea, so it can alleviate the excitement of nervus centralis and effectively prevent insomnia.

• Lose weight: 

The flavone from sea-buckthorn leaves of sea-buckthorn tea can promote blood circulation and metabolism, control fat synthesis in fat metabolism, prevent high fat animal serum total cholesterol, triglyceride and low-density lipoprotein from rising, and effectively help to lose weight.

• Eliminate free radicals and delay senility

The flavonoid glycosides in sea-buckthorn tea can clean the harmful superoxide radicals; rutin and chlorogenic acid can increase the penetrability of capillary vessels and strengthen human tissue's capacity to absorb oxygen, and improve blood circulation, and help to delay senility and keep young.

• Relax bowel

Constipation can cause the intestinal wall to absorb the toxin left in the intestine. Long-term constipation can cause the human body to become old easily, and it is also a reason for colon cancer and hemorrhoids; besides, it's also one of the reasons for the sudden attack of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. SOD contained in sea-buckthorn leaves has very strong inhibitory action and can promote the discharge of toxin.

• Reduce blood lipids and prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases

The unsaturated fatty acid contained in sea-buckthorn leaves can reduce the cholesterol and triglyceride in blood and suppress the gathering of thrombocyte; it can reduce blood viscosity, improve the sleep quality, remove fatigue, headache, dizziness and other symptoms; it also has stable and accurate improvement functions to the atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, cerebral apoplexy, and hepatocirrhosis caused by hyperlipemia, and has no toxic and side effects.