What are the medicinal effects of hawthorn? What is the effect of hawthorn?

Hawthorn is the fruit of the Rosaceae plant hawthorn, mountain red or wild hawthorn. It is mainly produced in Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places.

Sexual taste] sour, sweet, slightly warm.

Indications] appetizing and eliminating food, dissolving stagnation and accumulation, invigorating blood and dissipating stasis, dissolving phlegm and qi. It is used for meat stagnation, accumulation of symptoms, abdominal distension, abdominal pain, phlegm drinking, diarrhea, intestinal wind and blood, etc.

Clinical application] 1. Treatment of dyspepsia: 10 grams of coke hawthorn, add an appropriate amount of brown sugar at the end of the grinding, and take it with boiling water, 3 times a day. Or 10 grams of raw hawthorn, 10 grams of fried malt, decoction in water, 2 times a day.

2. Treatment of high blood pressure, liver fire headache, summer heat and thirst: 15 grams of hawthorn, 50 grams of fresh lotus leaves, decoction water instead of tea.

3. Treatment of dysentery: 30 grams of hawthorn, 15 grams of red and white sucrose, and 5 grams of decoction and fine tea.

4. Treatment of hyperlipidemia: 10 grams of hawthorn, 10 grams of Hangju, 15 grams of cassia seeds, slightly decoction of offspring tea, 1 time a day.

5. Treatment of postpartum abdominal pain: 30 grams of hawthorn, 15 grams of incense. Thick decoction, 2 times a day.

6. Treatment of amenorrhea: 60 grams of hawthorn, 10 grams of chicken gold, 10 grams of safflower, 30 grams of brown sugar, 1 dose of decoction per day.

7. Treatment of menstrual disorders and pain caused by cervical cancer: 50 grams of hawthorn, 3 grams of safflower, 1 herring (about 1000 grams), 1000 ml of peanut oil, 30 grams of brown sugar, sugar, salt, sesame oil, starch, ginger, and green onions. Hawthorn, safflower, brown sugar decoction sauce set aside.

Wash the herring, stir the starch with water and spread it on both sides of the fish. Put the oil in the pan until it is ripe, put the fish in the oil pan, fry it until golden brown, remove it and put it on a plate for later use. Finally, take 50ml of sesame oil and put it in a pot to cook, add hawthorn juice, a small amount of vinegar and red, sugar, salt, starch, hook into a diluted thicken, stir slightly, add a little ginger and green onion and then get out of the pot, pour it on the fish, and you can eat it.

Dosage] Raw food, decoction, or juice serving. 10-30 grams each time.

It should be avoided] people with excessive gastric acid, peptic ulcer and tooth decay, and should not take it while taking tonic medicines.

Ingredients & Medicinal].

This product contains sugar, protein, fat, vitamin C, carotene, starch, malic acid, citrate, calcium and iron and other substances, which have the effects of lowering blood lipids, blood pressure, strengthening the heart and anti-arrhythmia. The flavonoid vitexin in hawthorn is a drug with strong anti-cancer effect, and hawthorn extract has a certain inhibitory effect on the growth, proliferation and invasion and metastasis of cancer cells.

Hawthorn contains sour ingredients such as citric acid, tartaric acid, and hawthorn acid, which can promote the secretion of digestive enzymes and have a certain effect on digestion. But you can't eat too much because hawthorn is a high-sugar fruit. In addition, hawthorn is also rich in vitamin C and dietary fiber, which has a certain effect on antioxidant and relieves constipation.

There are many benefits of eating hawthorn often When it comes to hawthorn, people first think of it as an aid in digestion. In fact, hawthorn has many effects in addition to eliminating food. Not long ago, the relevant personnel of Tianjin Institute of Environmental Medicine measured the antioxidant activity of 30 kinds of common fruits in China, and believed that the anti-aging effect of hawthorn ranked first among the fruits.

Anti-cancer and anti-cancer Studies in recent years have found that hawthorn contains a compound called vitexin, which has anti-cancer effects. Nitrosamines and aflatoxins can induce the occurrence or aggravation of gastrointestinal cancer, and experimental studies have shown that hawthorn extract can not only block the synthesis of nitrosamines, but also inhibit the carcinogenic effect of aflatoxin. Therefore, high-risk groups of digestive tract cancer should often eat hawthorn, for patients who already have cancer, if there is indigestion, hawthorn and rice can also be used to cook porridge together, which can not only help digestion, but also play an auxiliary role in anti-cancer.

Clinical studies have confirmed that hawthorn can significantly 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, increasing cardiac output, dilating coronary blood vessels, increasing coronary blood flow, and reducing myocardial oxygen consumption. 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.

**Dysmenorrhea and menstrual irregularities Traditional Chinese medicine believes that 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 can take 1000 grams of fresh hawthorn with whole pits, add an appropriate amount of water after washing, simmer until the hawthorn is ripe, add 250 grams of brown sugar, and boil for another 10 minutes until it becomes a thin paste.

Start taking it 3 5 days before menstruation, eat 30 ml of hawthorn mud every morning and evening, until stop taking it 3 days after menstruation, this is 1 course of treatment, and 3 courses of treatment can be effective. This method is also suitable for patients with irregular menstruation and blood stasis in traditional Chinese medicine.

Hawthorn can**, because the lipolytic enzyme contained in hawthorn can promote the digestion of fatty foods, and can remove excess fat in the body.

Hawthorn is also considered a type of traditional Chinese medicine. It has an appetizing and stomach-strengthening effect. Eating too much raw hawthorn will also make you a little sick to your stomach.

In addition to hawthorn slices, there are also hawthorn cakes, hawthorn wine, you can also slice hawthorn tea, hawthorn tea is generally used to ** good, it can also lower blood lipids and blood pressure, prevent cancer and anti-cancer, treat dysmenorrhea and menstrual irregularities. Hawthorn is a very nice thing. However, if you have too much stomach acid, you should not use it

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.