What Does Hawthorn Do To The Body?

Hawthorn is a kind of leisure food, eat appetizers before meals, eat after meals, but no matter how to eat, do not overdose.

I、Nutritional efficacy:

Hawthorn contains a variety of vitamins, tartaric acid, citric  acid, hawthorn acid, malic acid, etc., but also contains brass, lactones, sugars, proteins, fats and calcium, phosphorus, iron and other minerals, the lipase contained can promote the digestion of fatty foods. Promote gastric secretion and increase gastric enzymes and other functions. Chinese medicine believes that hawthorn has the effect of eliminating accumulation and stagnation, astringent and dysentery, activating blood and removing stasis. Treating diet stagnation, chest and diaphragm fullness, hernia blood stasis amenorrhea and other diseases. Hawthorn contains siterpenoids, brasses and other drug components, which have significant vasodilation and antihypertensive effects, and have the functions of strengthening myocardium, anti-arrhythmia, regulating lipid and cholesterol content.

Suitable for this: ordinary people can eat. Children, pregnant women, the elderly, indigestion is especially suitable for consumption. Cold, indigestion, loss of appetite, children's cartilage calcium deficiency, children iron deficiency anemia can eat hawthorn chips. 20 to 30 grams each time.

Special note: Chinese medicine believes that hawthorn only does not fill, the spleen and stomach must be weak should not eat more. Healthy people should also be moderate in eating hawthorn, especially children, are in the teeth replacement period, long-term gluttony hawthorn or hawthorn chips, hawthorn cake, etc., is not conducive to tooth growth. In addition, hawthorn chips, fruit peel contains a lot of sugar, children eat too much will keep blood sugar at a high level, no hunger, affect eating, long-term large consumption will lead to nutrition, anemia and so on. Diabetic patients should not eat, can be appropriate to eat hawthorn fruit. After eating, pay attention to gargling and brushing in time to prevent tooth damage.

II、The role of hawthorn:

The relevant personnel of Tianjin Institute of Environmental Medicine determined the antioxidant activity of 30 kinds of common fruits in China, and believed that the anti-aging effect of hawthorn ranked first in the group of fruits.

Hawthorn can also be integrated processing and utilization, such as hawthorn nucleus, accounting for 1/3 of the total weight of hawthorn, scientific research department tests, it contains a variety of ingredients and pulp, especially amygdalin and glucoside, fat and so on are higher than the pulp. "Hawthorn core distillate oil" was extracted from hawthorn core, and the oil yield was more than 10%. The total effective rate and cure rate of distillate oil in the treatment of eczema, furuncle, neurodermatitis and other common multiple skin diseases were 98.7% and 47.6%. Distillate also has anti-inflammatory, analgesic, softening blood vessels, lowering cholesterol and triglycerides and so on. Engineers at Beijing Sanitary Materials Factory have made hawthorn distillate that protects skin. The new dermatitis drug prepared with this oil has special curative effect on acute and chronic dermatitis. "Xinmaitong" plaster made of hawthorn stone can be used externally to treat hypertension and heart disease. In addition, hawthorn stone can also produce advanced sterilization mosquito killing incense and other drugs. Because the product is a natural raw material, the product does not have any side effects, Feixian has been put into mass production. Hawthorn leaves are the green and wobbly blue that produce hawthorn fruit. The dried hawthorn leaves of a single tree make up one-fifth of the fruit's weight and contain almost as many ingredients as the flesh. Hawthorn leaves are rich in protein and flavonoids which have anticancer effects. According to the test, the content of hawthorn flavonoids in hawthorn leaves is 20 to 120 times that of hawthorn fruit, and the yield of hawthorn flavonoids from hawthorn leaves is 6% to 10%, and this cheap extract can be used to prepare high-grade drinks - hawthorn ketone juice. In addition, substances for reducing blood pressure and promoting blood circulation can also be extracted from dry leaves. Some research departments in Beijing area and related manufacturers successfully developed a refreshing drink "Qinxin Lu", is the use of hawthorn leaves made of myocardial damage, cardiovascular disease has obvious therapeutic effect, in addition, hawthorn leaves can also produce blood pressure tea and so on.

Hawthorn has high medicinal value. According to pharmacological analysis, hawthorn contains three kinds of paste, lipolytic enzymes, flavonoids and flavonoids. Medicinal ingredients such as pyritin can enhance the regulation of myocardium, help to promote cholesterol transformation, reduce the function of lipid preparation; It is also a good fruit for expanding trachea, promoting the movement of tracheal cilia, eliminating phlegm and relieving asthma.

Hawthorn diet can cure menstrual disorder

When it comes to hawthorn, people first think of it as an aid to digestion. In fact, hawthorn in addition to digestion, there are many effects. Not long ago, the relevant personnel of the Tianjin Institute of Environmental Medicine determined the antioxidant activity of 30 kinds of common fruits in China, and believed that the anti-aging effect of hawthorn ranked first in the group of fruits.

In recent years, studies have found that hawthorn contains a compound called vitexin, which has anti-cancer effects. Both nitrosamines and aflatoxins can induce the occurrence or aggravation of digestive tract cancer. Experimental studies have shown that hawthorn extract can not only block the synthesis of nitrosamines, but also inhibit the carcinogenic effect of aflatoxins. Therefore, people at high risk of digestive tract cancer should often eat hawthorn, for patients already suffering from cancer, if there is dyspepsia can also be used when hawthorn, rice porridge together to eat, so that it can help digestion, but also play a role in assisting anti-cancer.

Clinical studies on strengthening heart, lowering blood lipids and lowering blood pressure confirmed that hawthorn can significantly reduce serum cholesterol and triglyceride, and effectively prevent atherosclerosis; Hawthorn can also strengthen the heart and prevent angina pectoris by enhancing myocardial contractile force, increasing cardiac output, expanding coronary arteries, increasing coronary blood flow, reducing myocardial oxygen consumption and so on. In addition, the total flavonoids in hawthorn have the effect of dilating blood vessels and reducing blood pressure for a long time. Therefore, patients with hyperlipidemia, hypertension and coronary heart disease can be daily hawthorn 15 ~ 30 grams, water decoction instead of tea drink.

Treatment of dysmenorrhea, irregular menstruation Chinese medicine that hawthorn has the role of activating blood and removing stasis, is the blood stasis dysmenorrhea patients with good food therapy. Patients with hemostasis dysmenorrhea often present with lower abdominal pain on the 1st or 2nd day of menstruation or 1-2 days before menstruation. When the menstrual blood is discharged smoothly, the pain gradually decreases or disappears, and the menstrual blood is dark with blood clots. Patients can complete with nuclear fresh hawthorn 1000 grams, wash and add the right amount of water, simmer until hawthorn cooked, add 250 grams of brown sugar, then boil for 10 minutes, until it becomes a thin paste can be. Start to take 3 to 5 days before the menstrual period, eat 30 ml of hawthorn mud every morning and evening, until 3 days after the menstrual period to stop taking, this is a course of treatment, even take 3 courses can be effective. This method is also suitable for irregular menstruation, TCM syndrome differentiation for blood stasis.

Some people should not eat hawthorn pregnant women early pregnancy reaction, sweet and sour hawthorn is often their favorite. In fact, pregnant women should not eat hawthorn, because hawthorn has the effect of contracting uterine smooth muscle, may induce abortion. Hawthorn can promote the secretion of stomach acid, so it should not be eaten on an empty stomach. The acidic substances in hawthorn have a certain corrosive effect on the teeth, pay attention to timely gargling and brushing after eating, and children who are in the teeth replacement period should pay special attention.