First one: Genghis khan and seabuckthorn
In those years, that proud son of Heaven-Genghis khan, whose cavalry swept the Eurasia, in order to enhance the strength of his army for expedition, a group of war horses, weak and sick, marched into wars for tears, had to be abandoned in seabuckthorn forest, When returned in triumph, passing the forest, to their surprise, officers and soldiers found those abandoned war horses were still alive with the martial prowess as before. Seeing their hosts returning, the war horses howled and rised up, kicking with long neighing. Unexpectdly, the officers and soldiers wondered why the small seabuckthorn has such miraculous functions, and reported this to Genghis Khan at once, knowing this Genghis Khan ordered the officers and soldiers to take a great deal of seabuckthorn with them. As expected, often eating the seabuckthorn got the officers and soldriers more abundant in physical strength and plucking up their spirits, while fighting the enemy their might redoubled-like a tiger which has got wings. Afterward, the imperial physicians utilized the seabuckthorn to make the Traditional Mongolian Medicine good for strengthening human body and curing illness. Genghis Khan went on an expedition all the year round, on ordinary days relying on the seabuckthorn for strengthening his body and resisting diseases. Yuan Shizhu Kublai Khan could ride a horse to shoot arrows until in his eighties, also as the result of taking seabuckthorn.

Second One: Called by the ancient Greek¡®the tree sparkles horses¡¯
In a certain place in ancient Greece, some war horses, injured and disabled, weak and ill, abandoned by their hosts in the wilderness, among which including those foals achieving miraculous feats in battles, these favorites on the past battlefields after suddenly losing their hosts¡®doters had to look for food in flocks with their tired bodies. A miracle took place, after living for a period of time in the wilderness, these war horses became plump and sturdy, with their fur sparkling. People tried to find out the reason, and they knew that these war horses had chewed and eaten in the wilderness a kind of plant-bush seabuckthorn with thorns. And then named it Hippophae rhamnoides L, means¡®the tree sparkles horses¡¯

Third One:
The secret of why the Crossoptlon mantchuricum became beautiful again
On Inner Mongolia Plateau, there is a kind of Crossoptilon mantchuricum listed as the second-class protection wildlife in our country, which is covered with feather in blue and brown stripes, with a complete luxurious posture, but in the process of artificial breeding appeared the phenomenon of tail feather shed off and the feather¡¯s color dimed, this question had not been solved for quite a long time, until a few years ago, through the careful research of scientific research personnel, people could find that under the circumstances of living in the wilderness Crossoptilon mantchuricum¡¯s habitat is the seabuckthorn forest, just because of eating the leaves and fruits of seabuckthorn for a long period of time, they get such beautiful feathers, then the feeder began to feed them the fruit residue and leaves of seabuckthorn, a few months later, this kind of rare birds living in the jungle became beautiful again.

Fourth One: Seabuckthorn and Astronaut
Before the first time to complete walking in the outer space, the astronaut Gagarin of the former Soviet Union had taken a great deal of seabuckthorn oil, in order to prevent any harms to his body caused by the cosmic environment such as rays¡¯radiation and the abrupt temperature changes, and weightlessness etc.
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