Traditional Chinese medicine believes that hawthorn has the effects of promoting digestion, resolving food stagnation, astringing and stopping dysentery, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Triterpenoids, flavonoids and other medicinal components contained in hawthorn have obvious effects of dilating blood vessels and lowering blood pressure, and have certain effects of strengthening myocardium, resisting arrhythmia and regulating blood lipid and cholesterol. Clinical experiments show that hawthorn can significantly reduce serum cholesterol and triglyceride and effectively prevent and treat atherosclerosis; Hawthorn can also strengthen the heart and prevent angina pectoris by enhancing myocardial contractility, increasing cardiac output, dilating coronary blood vessels, increasing coronary blood flow and reducing myocardial oxygen consumption.

Although hawthorn is good, you must pay attention to eating hawthorn. First, hawthorn can't be eaten on an empty stomach, because hawthorn contains a lot of organic acids, fruit acids, maslinic acid, citric acid and so on. If you eat on an empty stomach, your stomach acid will soar, which will cause bad stimulation to the gastric mucosa and make your stomach full and pantothenic. If you eat on an empty stomach, you will feel full and aggravate the original stomach pain. Second, eat less raw hawthorn. Tannic acid contained in raw hawthorn is easy to form gastrolith when combined with gastric acid, which is difficult to be digested. If it is not digested for a long time, it will cause gastric ulcer, gastric bleeding and even gastric perforation.

Digestion, stagnation, and ascaris. It can be used for treating mass accumulation, abdominal mass, phlegm retention, fullness, acid regurgitation, diarrhea, intestinal wind, lumbago, postpartum hernia pillow pain, lochia, and infantile milk obstruction. Xiaoshi Jianwei, promoting qi circulation and removing blood stasis. Can be used for treating meat stagnation, flatulence, diarrhea, abdominal pain, blood stasis, amenorrhea, postpartum blood stasis, heart stabbing pain, hernia pain, and hyperlipidemia.

Efficacy and function

① Tao Hongjing: "Boil juice to wash paint sores."

(2) Materia Medica of the Tang Dynasty: "Juice is good for the main benefit, shampoo and relieve itching."

(3) Materia Medica: "Treating dysentery and low back pain."

4 "Yan Lu Materia Medica": "It can help digestion."

⑤ "Daily Materia Medica": "Digestion, stagnation of qi, invigorating stomach, widening diaphragm and removing blood clots."

⑥ "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": "Eliminating meat stagnation and reducing qi; Treat acid accumulation. "

⑦ "Materia Medica": "Qi stagnation cures depression and hernia."

⑧ Ningyuan's Materia Medica of Food Syndrome: "Removing blood stasis, blocking qi and promoting blood circulation."

9 "Outline": "Diet, accumulated meat, abdominal distension, excessive phlegm, fullness and acid swallowing, blood stasis and pain."

Attending "rejuvenation of materia medica": "Treating damp-heat due to spleen deficiency, promoting digestion and facilitating defecation."

⑾ Summary of Materia Medica: "Apply frostbite."

avoid

Use with caution for people with weak spleen and stomach.

(1) Outline: "Eating too much raw food is annoying and easy to starve to death, especially for people with dental caries."

(2) Shu Shu in Materia Medica: "People with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, liver depression and qi stagnation should be used together with tonics, and should not be overused."

(3) "Depei Materia Medica": "loose stool with qi deficiency, and those who do not eat with spleen deficiency are forbidden. People who eat ginseng should avoid eating. "

④ Diet spectrum of interesting life: "Eating too much consumes gas, hurts teeth, is prone to hunger, and is forbidden for those who are weak after fasting or deficiency cold."