Often soak in mountain slag to eat dry. How does this affect your health?

Hawthorn, also known as Shanlihong, tastes sour and sweet, slightly warm, and enters the spleen, stomach and liver meridians. It is rich in vitamins and minerals and is nutritious. Normal people often eat a small amount of hawthorn, which has many functions, such as promoting digestion, strengthening the spleen, promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis, softening blood vessels, refreshing the brain and so on. It is a traditional Chinese medicine that often appears in traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions. In addition to the reduction of vitamin C, sugar, protein, minerals, dietary fiber and phytochemicals have been highly concentrated, and their nutritional value has been greatly improved. As the sugar content increased from 25% to 78%, dried hawthorn tastes sweeter and less sour.

However, what is often overlooked is that it does not have a health care effect on the spleen and stomach, so there will be some disadvantages, because it can only promote the secretion of more digestive juice in the body. Then if this is excessive, it will stimulate the spleen and stomach. Hawthorn is a kind of food with the same origin of medicine and food. Hawthorn fresh fruit pulp is thin and slightly sour, which can be eaten directly. Eating before meals can strengthen the spleen and stimulate appetite, and eating after meals can help digestion. Hawthorn can be used as medicine after drying, and it is a unique tree species for both medicine and fruit in China.

It tastes sour and sweet and many people like it. Some people like to slice hawthorn and soak it in water. There are also dried hawthorn on the market, and you may also buy soaked water to drink. In fact, hawthorn is not only a fruit, but also a Chinese herbal medicine. It varies from person to person, and not everyone is suitable for soaking hawthorn in clear water for a long time. For example, people with spleen and stomach deficiency or weakness should not soak hawthorn in water for a long time. However, people with normal spleen and stomach and three highs can drink hawthorn water for a long time or intermittently under the condition of strictly controlling the dose.

After eating, it can enhance gastric acid secretion, increase pepsin activity and promote protein's digestion. When you have to eat a lot, drinking hawthorn water can help to promote the digestion of protein and fat, and also increase your appetite. Therefore, it is helpful for loss of appetite and lowering blood fat.