The medicinal value of hawthorn, the nutritional value of hawthorn, the medicinal value of hawthorn

Hawthorn has the medicinal value of dissipating accumulation and appetizing, invigorating blood and dissipating stasis, preventing heatstroke and lowering blood pressure.

Raw hawthorn one or two water decoction, **acute and chronic pyelonephritis. 100 hawthorn grains mashed cut soup, add a little sugar, warm on an empty stomach, ** postpartum lochia, abdominal pain. 15 hawthorn grains mashed with sugar and one or two water decoction, ** high blood pressure.

Stir-fried 3 hawthorns, 5 slices of ginger, appropriate amount of brown sugar decoction, **diarrhea. 10 pieces of dried hawthorn are grinded, and the liquor is washed, and the bruises are painful.

Hawthorn is a plant of the family Roseaceae. There are many varieties, such as begonia balls, mountain red, south mountain plants, north mountain plants, etc. Medicinal use is better for wild mountain plants.

Gourmet: sour, sweet, lukewarm, non-toxic.

Food ingredients: wild hawthorn fruit: contains hawthorn acid, kneading, saponins, fructose, vitamin C, protein, fatty oil, flavonoid glycosides.

Mountain red fruit: contains tartaric acid, citric acid, hawthorn acid, flavonoids, lactones, sugars, glycosides.

Gastronomic pharmacology :

After entering the stomach, it can enhance the role of enzymes, promote meat digestion, and have an astringent effect, and have a strong inhibition of dysentery bacilli. It also has the effects of lowering blood pressure, strengthening the heart, dilating blood and lowering cholesterol, and is suitable for arteriosclerotic hypertension, and has a contraction of the uterus, and the treatment of postpartum abdominal pain. Recently, it has been used in patients with hepatosplenomegaly, and it is believed to have the effect of narrowing the liver and spleen.

Gastronomic efficacy: dissipate food accumulation, stop vomiting, relieve pain, treat hernia, stop low back pain, and have the function of astringent and antidiarrheal.

Meat accumulation does not dissolve, upper abdominal pain: 12 18 grams of wild hawthorn, 9 grams of sulforaphane and 9 grams of Zhishi, decoction in water.

Small intestinal hernia, enteritis dysentery, intestinal hernia pain, etc.: 15 30 grams of wild hawthorn, add an appropriate amount of red sugar after frying, and take it 2 to 3 times a day.

Urticaria (hives): 30 grams of hawthorn, 15 grams of malt, 15 grams of fresh bamboo leaves, 3 grams of licorice, decoction to remove slag, take 2 times a day.

High blood pressure, coronary heart disease, angina, paroxysmal tachycardia, etc.: wild hawthorn 3 12 grams, or hawthorn flower 3 9 grams, decoction in water.

Fatigue: hawthorn wine (preparation method: take fresh hawthorn fruit, wash and crush, put it in a large bottle, add an appropriate amount of sugar, and cover.

After that, it is often stirred to make it even, and after 1 to 2 months, it is fermented into hawthorn wine, which is squeezed with gauze, filtered and slag removed. Take a small cup each. This wine has a significant effect on recovering human fatigue and increasing energy.

Women's menstrual period does not come: 30 grams of hawthorn vegetable meat, decoction to remove slag, 21 24 grams of brown sugar, hot service effect. Menstruation for 1 2 months and not pregnancy can also be taken several times.

Scurvy: 90 grams of hawthorn, black beans, and sugar, three bowls of water, add 90 grams of rice wine after frying, and take it 2 times.

Postpartum congestion and abdominal pain: 30 grams of hawthorn, decoction of thick juice, removal of slag and brown sugar, 2 times a day.

Hawthorn, slightly warm in nature, sweet and sour in taste. into the three meridians of the spleen, stomach and liver. Eliminate food accumulation, disperse blood stasis, and drive tapeworms.

Treatment of meat accumulation, phlegm drinking, ruffianism, acid swallowing, diarrhea, intestinal wind, low back pain, hernia, postpartum occipital pain, lochia, and stagnation of infant milk food. Avoidance: Use with caution for those with weak spleen and stomach.

The most unforgettable little time walking the streets and alleys to sell sugar gourd uncle, his very distinctive shirt shouting is my childhood memory that I can't erase, but also the memory of childhood happiness. At that time, there was a shortage of snacks, and the family was strict and did not allow other snacks to be eaten. But every time the uncle who sells sugar gourds comes to shout and sell sugar gourds, my mother always buys a few strings to satisfy my cravings.

At that time, I didn't think about why my mother would let us eat sugar gourds, and when I grew up, I knew that the value of hawthorn was particularly high in the countryside.

Hawthorn contains a lot of nutrients, and it can be said that it contains all the nutrients of all fruits. In particular, hawthorn contains much higher carbohydrates than the average of other fruits. The nutritional component of hawthorn can be expressed in this way, every 100 grams contains 85 mg of calcium, the calcium content ranks first among fruits, 89 mg of vitamin C, and the vitamin C content ranks the oldest among fruits.

4. Rich in inorganic salts and red pigment, pectin, lipase, minerals and other components. The rich inorganic salts and vitamin C contained in it have very good effects on lowering blood pressure, lowering blood lipids, reducing fat and invigorating qi, regulating heart rate, and many other effects, which are also widely used in traditional Chinese medicine.

The taste is sour, sweet, slightly warm, and enters the spleen, stomach, and liver meridians, which has been a good medicine in traditional Chinese medicine since ancient times.

Hawthorn appetizes and nourishes the spleen, strengthens the stomach and consumes food, eliminates meat stagnation, and people with cold and flu, and poor appetite can eat some hawthorn to regulate;

Hawthorn has the effect of invigorating blood and removing blood stasis, so some hawthorn is usually used in the traditional Chinese medicine prescription for bruises; For women with menstrual abdominal pain and irregular menstruation, some hawthorn can also be added to the traditional Chinese medicine prescription for conditioning;

Hawthorn also contains flavonoids, carotene and other substances, which can inhibit the production of free radicals that cause cancer, so as to achieve the effect of cancer prevention; Inhibiting the production of free radicals can also prevent aging, which is deeply loved by female friends;

Hawthorn can also lower blood pressure and blood lipids. Able to increase coronary flow, strengthen the heart and regulate heart rate problems; It is good for heart disease in old age. Hawthorn can also relieve asthma and reduce phlegm, **abdominal pain and diarrhea.

Hawthorn can also be used to induce labor when pregnant women are in labor, because hawthorn has the effect of uterine contraction, and inducing labor is not available in other fruits, and it is very green. Moreover, women eat some hawthorn after giving birth, which is also conducive to the recovery of the uterus.

Protecting the liver and protecting the liver, many men often socialize, fatty liver is high, you can eat some hawthorn at this time, because hawthorn has the effect of liver fat removal.

The efficacy and role of hawthorn.

For hawthorn in life, everyone is most familiar with rock sugar gourds, hawthorn slices, hawthorn strips and so on. In fact, hawthorn has many effects and functions, in addition to being made into food, hawthorn can also be appetizing, lowering blood lipids, lowering blood pressure, regulating menstrual irregularities, etc., which has many benefits to the body. The specific effect of hawthorn, let's follow to find out.

1. Strengthen the heart, lower blood lipids and blood pressure.

Studies have shown that hawthorn can prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases, reduce serum cholesterol and triglycerides, and effectively prevent and treat atherosclerosis; Hawthorn can also play a role in strengthening the heart and preventing angina pectoris by enhancing myocardial contractility and increasing cardiac output. In addition, the total flavonoids in hawthorn have a vasodilating and long-lasting antihypertensive effect. Therefore, patients with hyperlipidemia, hypertension and coronary heart disease can take 15 30 grams of raw hawthorn every day and decoction in water instead of tea.

2. Dysmenorrhea and menstrual irregularities.

Hawthorn has the effect of activating blood and removing stasis, and is a good food therapy for patients with blood stasis dysmenorrhea. Patients with hemostasis dysmenorrhea often present with lower abdominal pain on the first or second day of menstruation or 1 or 2 days before menstruation, and the pain gradually decreases or disappears when the menstrual blood is discharged smoothly, and the menstrual blood is dark in color with blood clots. Patients with such symptoms can take 1000 grams of fresh hawthorn with complete pits, add an appropriate amount of water after washing, boil until the hawthorn is ripe, add 250 grams of brown sugar, and then boil for 10 minutes, and then drink it when it becomes a thin paste.

3. Appetizing. Hawthorn can be appetizing and digestible, especially for the elimination of meat stagnation, hawthorn is used in many digestive medicines.

4. Diarrhea.

Hawthorn has ingredients that relieve asthma and reduce phlegm, inhibit bacteria, and have abdominal pain and diarrhea.

5. Anti-aging.

The flavonoids, vitamin C, carotene and other substances contained in hawthorn can block and reduce the generation of free radicals, enhance the body's immunity, and have anti-aging and anti-cancer effects.