What are the effects and functions of hawthorn?

Speaking of childhood snacks, the first thing that many people think of is the rock sugar gourd, the rock sugar gourd is also known as the sugar dun in Tianjin, it is a traditional Chinese snack, in the northern winter, you can often see the streets and alleys selling rock sugar gourd, the rock sugar gourd is generally made of hawthorn, the sugar is frozen hard, it tastes sour and sweet, and it is very ice. As early as the Song Dynasty, there were records of rock sugar gourds.

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 ability to invigorate blood and dissolve stasis. It is a good dietary 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.

3. Appetizing

The effect of hawthorn stomach digestion should be better known to everyone, not only many people will eat hawthorn to eliminate food, but also hawthorn is also the main ingredient of many digestion drugs. Eating hawthorn can help us promote the digestive function of the stomach and improve the ability of metabolism. In addition, the eating effect of hawthorn is most significant for people who eat too much meat!

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.

6.Promote blood circulation and eliminate blood stasis

Hawthorn has the effect of activating blood and removing stasis, helps to relieve local congestion, and has an auxiliary effect on bruises.

7.Promotes the recovery of the uterus

Hawthorn has a contractile effect on the uterus, which has the effect of inducing birth when pregnant women are in labor, and can promote postpartum uterine recovery.

Hawthorn is sweet and sour and slightly warm to the spleen, stomach and liver meridians, and its main effects are to strengthen the stomach, eliminate food, promote qi, and disperse stasis. The role is as follows:

1. It can eliminate food and strengthen the stomach, and the effect of Jiao hawthorn in eliminating food and guiding stagnation is stronger than that of raw hawthorn, which is used for meat stagnation, stomach fullness, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and stagnation of milk food in children;

2. It can be used for blood stasis type dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, postpartum stasis, twins, uterine fibroids, ovarian cysts, etc.;

3. Hawthorn has the effect of dilating blood vessels and lowering blood pressure, it can dilate coronary blood vessels, increase coronary blood flow, reduce myocardial oxygen consumption, and play a role in strengthening the heart and preventing cardiovascular diseases. It is used for coronary heart disease, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, etc.

Efficacy and function.

Strengthen the stomach and eliminate appetite, disperse qi and stasis, dissolve turbidity and reduce lipids.

Hawthorn fruit can be eaten raw or made as preserved fruit, fruit cake, and can also be used as medicine after drying, which is a unique medicinal fruit in China. Hawthorn is rich in vitamin C, carbohydrates, a variety of minerals, carotene, etc., which has the effects of strengthening the stomach and eliminating appetite, dissipating qi and stasis, dissolving turbidity and lowering lipids.

1. Stomach digestion: For symptoms such as meat stagnation, stomach fullness, diarrhea and abdominal pain, hawthorn can be eaten to improve. In addition, you can also eat scorched hawthorn, that is, use hawthorn to fry and eat, which has the effect of strengthening the stomach and eliminating appetite.

2. Qi and stasis: All symptoms such as blood stasis, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, and postpartum stasis can also be relieved with hawthorn, which has the effect of dispersing qi and stasis.

3. Turbidity and lipid reduction: Hawthorn can improve abdominal tingling, chest paralysis and heartache, hernia pain, etc., and has the effect of turbidity and lipid reduction.

Precautions. Suitable for.

Middle-aged and elderly patients with heart weakness, hypertension, and coronary heart disease.

Contraindicated. Pregnant women, people with weak spleen and stomach, and people with low blood lipids.

How to eat. Raw fresh hawthorn can be eaten directly, when eating hawthorn directly, in order to avoid sourness, you can dip a little honey, fresh hawthorn is often made into rock sugar gourds to eat.

Slice the hawthorn into slices, cook the porridge with japonica rice, add rock sugar when the porridge is about to cook, and mix well to make hawthorn porridge, which helps to promote digestion.

Make jam. Wash the hawthorn, remove the seeds and set aside, boil the rock sugar into syrup, add the hawthorn, simmer over low heat, squeeze the hawthorn into a puree with a spoon, add lemon juice in an appropriate amount, and put it into a sealed jar after cooking.

Able to prevent cardiovascular diseases, hawthorn contains ursolic acid, which can reduce the deposition of animal fat in the blood vessel wall, and has a certain effect of preventing or alleviating arteriosclerosis.

Hawthorn uses the fruit as medicine, which has the functions of eliminating food and strengthening the stomach, invigorating blood and removing stasis, and astringent and stopping dysentery. It is effective for meat accumulation and phlegm drinking, ruffian swallowing acid, diarrhea and intestinal wind, low back pain and hernia, postpartum occipital pain, inexhaustible lochia, and stagnation of children's milk food.

Eliminate food accumulation, disperse blood stasis, and drive tapeworms. Treatment of meat accumulation, symptomatic sputum, phlegm drinking, ruffianism, acid swallowing, diarrhea, intestinal wind, low back pain, hernia, postpartum occipital pain, lochia, and stagnation of infant milk food. Eliminate food and strengthen the stomach, and dissipate qi and stasis.

It is used for meat stagnation, gastric fullness, diarrhea and abdominal pain, blood stasis and amenorrhea, postpartum stasis, abdominal stinging, hernia pain, and hyperlipidemia.