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Seabuckthorn has been used in traditional Chinese medicine since the Tang Dynasty, going back more than 1000 years. The genus name Hippophae is classical Latin for "shining horse," a name that was given in ancient times after it was found that feeding the leaves to horses improved their health and made their hair shiny (Lu 1992).

Seabuckthorn's natural distribution area includes China, Mongolia, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Great Britain, France, Denmark, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Finland, Sweden and Norway.

Seabuckthorn or Hippophae belongs to the family Elaeagnaceae. There are 6 species and 12 subspecies. More than 90% or about 1.5 million hectares of the world's seabuckthorn resources can be found in China, where seabuckthorn is mainly planted for soil and water conservation purposes. In China, fruit is harvested from over one million ha (2.5 million acres) of wild seabuckthorn and almost 300,000 ha (750,00 acres) of cultivated plants.

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