What are the benefits of eating hawthorn?

Carry hawthorn tablets with you, which can relieve temporary dry mouth and relieve the pain of motion sickness and vomiting. It is also very effective in calming and treating pain! However, the effect of hawthorn is not only that, it is even more eye-catching when it plays the role of human blood vessel scavenger!

Hawthorn has received the most attention in recent years for its effect in lowering blood lipids. Experiments have confirmed that it can effectively improve atherosclerosis in experimental animals. According to research in mainland China, allowing rabbits to consume 9.5 grams of hawthorn per day can reduce the ratio of cholesterol and triglycerides in the rabbit's blood. Not only that, the lecithin ratio in rabbits will increase, and the area, average thickness, number and extent of aortic atherosclerotic plaques will be reduced or reduced. In addition to lowering blood lipids, hawthorn also has considerable effects on lowering blood pressure. Research has found that injecting 10 mg of flavonol (one of the components of hawthorn) into rabbits per kilogram of their weight can lower blood pressure, and the blood pressure-lowering effect can last for 3 hours.

Strictly speaking, the nutritional value of hawthorn is not high, but its medicinal ingredients are very rich, including vitamin C, citric acid, cyanic acid, calcium oxalate, choline, saponin, tartaric acid, Maslinic acid and a variety of anti-cancer triplic acid compounds, flavonol compounds, cyanol, red phenol, epicatechol and lipolytic enzymes, etc.

In traditional Chinese medicine, hawthorn has the effect of "eliminating food, eliminating accumulation, removing oil and greasiness". Therefore, it can promote the rapid excretion of cholesterol from the body and effectively decompose excess fat. If you add tangerine peel, black plum, lotus leaf, etc. and brew it together (because hawthorn cannot be boiled at high temperatures for a long time), it will be a very effective and natural weight loss drink!

Although hawthorn has so many benefits, it should not be eaten on an empty stomach, by people with low blood pressure, or those with weak spleen and stomach, or poor gastrointestinal function. In addition, hawthorn can damage the enamel of teeth, so it is not suitable for people with tooth decay. Take hawthorn.

Two medical prescriptions for colds, indigestion, and loss of appetite

(1) Food accumulation: Take 200 grams of hawthorn and 200 grams of Atractylodes. 100 grams of Divine Comedy is made into powder. Make steamed cake into balls as big as Wu Zi. Take 70 pills with white soup, or 9 grams of raw hawthorn and 9 grams of fried malt, decoct them in water and take them. Or decoct hawthorn juice and tangerine peel in water.

(2) It is not necessary to eat meat: 200 grams of hawthorn, decoct the meat and juice.

(3) Abdominal pain due to stagnation: Hawthorn decoction.

(4) For abdominal distension caused by food accumulation, take 15 grams of hawthorn, 15 grams of malt, and 6 grams of Cyperus cyperus in water.

(5) Abdominal pain and diarrhea after eating: Grind 9 grams of burnt hawthorn into powder, add brown sugar water and take it.

(6) Digestive disorders: due to meat eaters. 10 grams of hawthorn meat, 6 grams of Jishi, 5 grams of tangerine peel, and 2 grams of Coptis chinensis, decocted in water and taken.

(7) Cartilage calcium deficiency in children: It can be cured by regular consumption of hawthorn tablets.

(8) Iron deficiency anemia in children: It can be cured by regular consumption of hawthorn tablets.

(9) Pregnancy retention and malnutrition in children: Boil hawthorn honey into ointment and mix it with water, or 240 grams of hawthorn, burned to retain its properties, 60 grams of radish seeds, ground into powder, each time 3 grams, taken with rice soup, 3 times a day.

(10) Children with chronic diarrhea due to spleen deficiency: equal amounts of fresh hawthorn and yam, add sugar, mix thoroughly, steam and take.

(11) Infantile malnutrition: 10 grams each of hawthorn meat and Shijunzi, 8 grams of betel nut, 5 grams of Coptis chinensis, 1 gram of Coptis chinensis, decoction and take three times a day.

(12) Maternal lochia and abdominal pain: 30 grams of hawthorn, mash into a decoction, add brown sugar and take warm on an empty stomach.

(13) Small amount of amenorrhea, distension in the lower abdomen, and constipation: 30 grams of hawthorn is decoctioned with sugar and eaten for 7 days, which can remove congestion and activate blood circulation.

(14) Women with delayed menstruation: decoct 30 grams of raw hawthorn meat in water to remove residue, add brown sugar and take it.

(15) Women suffering from menstrual cold and stasis: 5 grams of cinnamon twig, 15 grams of hawthorn, decoction in brown sugar and water.

(16) Postpartum labor pain: 10 grams of hawthorn meat, 6 grams of angelica root, 5 grams of white peony root, 2 grams of licorice, decoct and take 3 times a day.

(17) Lowering serum cholesterol: Take 50 grams of hawthorn and 100 grams of Ilex japonica daily, divided into two times. [page]

(8) Hypertension: Hawthorn flowers and leaves are made into an infusion. Or drink hawthorn syrup, or 9 grams of burnt hawthorn, 12 grams of cassia, and 9 grams of white chrysanthemum, brewed in boiling water instead of tea, 1 to 2 times a day.

(19) Obese people with high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, cholecystitis, and fatty liver: Eat 5 to 7 hawthorns a day.

(20) Coronary atherosclerotic heart disease: drink hawthorn white sugar water.

(21) Hypertension, vascular sclerosis, break 10 fresh hawthorns, add 30 grams of sugar, decoct or use dried hawthorns with an appropriate amount of sugar, soak in water as tea, drink for a long time, it can soften blood vessels, Lowers blood pressure and is effective in treating high blood pressure. Or take hawthorn syrup after meals, 3 times a day, without side effects.

(22) For acute and chronic pyelonephritis, take decoction of raw hawthorn.

(23) For scurvy, decoct 120 grams each of hawthorn, white sugar, and black beans in water, add 120 grams of rice wine to overcome it.

(24) Elderly people suffering from waist and leg pain: Grind equal amounts of hawthorn and deer antlers (broiled) into powder, take honey pills and Wuzi big ones, and take them in divided doses.

(25) For cold dampness and lower abdominal pain, grind equal amounts of fennel and hawthorn into powder, take 5 to 10 grams each time, mix well with salt and wine, and take it warmly on an empty stomach.

(26) Hernia pain: 15 grams of hawthorn, 6 grams of fennel, decoct in water and take.

(27) Rheumatoid arthritis and edema: Add 60 grams of hawthorn root and decoct it in water.

(28) Dysentery: Fry and grind hawthorn into powder, take 5 to 10 grams each time, mix with red dysentery honey, white dysentery red (white) sugar, mix well with boiling water and take on an empty stomach.

(29) Intestinal wind: burn hawthorn ashes and give away rice soup.

(30) Acute bacillary dysentery: Use 20% hawthorn decoction, add sugar to taste, take 200 ml each time, 3 times a day, 7 to 10 days as a course of treatment, or use 100 grams of hawthorn decoction in water. Take it to treat mild to moderate bacillary dysentery.

(31) For watery diarrhea, decoct 30 grams of fried hawthorn, 3 slices of ginger, and 15 grams of brown sugar in water.

(32) Treatment of taeniasis: Use 1 kg of fresh hawthorn, start snacking in the afternoon, fast for dinner, and finish eating at 10 pm. The next morning, add 60 grams of betel nut to water and boil it into a tea cup. Take it all at once and rest in bed. When you want to defecate, you can hold it for a while to expel the complete tapeworm.

(33) Treat frostbite: Roast fresh hawthorn on a clean stove until soft, then divide it into two halves, squeeze out the core, mash the pulp into mud, apply it to the frostbite area, and then wrap it with cloth. Prevent falling off. After two days, you can open it and change the dressing until it heals. You can also use 100 grams of hawthorn or an appropriate amount of dried mountain plants, boil and mash it, and apply it to the ulcer.

(34) Hypertension, coronary heart disease, angina pectoris, paroxysmal tachycardia, etc.: Take 10 to 13 grams of wild hawthorn, or 3 to 4 grams of hawthorn flower, decoct it in water and take it.

(35) Measles: 30 grams of hawthorn, 15 grams each of malt and fresh bamboo leaves, 3 grams of licorice, decoct in water to remove residue, and take it twice a day.

(36) Colorectal cancer and gastric cancer: 10 grams of hawthorn, 2 grams of Panax notoginseng, 50 grams of japonica rice, cook porridge and add honey.

(37) Bladder cancer, hawthorn core, lychee core, olive core, 100 grams each, burn and grind into powder, take 10 grams with fennel soup before meals, or mix it in porridge.

Hawthorn can be used in the pharmaceutical industry to synthesize ascorbic acid, artificial plasma, cod liver oil capsules, etc.

;Eating hawthorn and its products is very effective.