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Can hawthorn be eaten directly?
Hawthorn fruit is slightly sour and sweet, which is suitable for fresh eating. It contains red pigment and pectin, and is more suitable for processing into hawthorn slices, hawthorn cakes, sweets, preserves, candied haws, hawthorn sauce, canned fruits, preserved fruits, peony bark, hawthorn juice, hawthorn drinks, hawthorn wine and so on. My favorite is candied haws.

The practice of candied haws

(1) Wash the hawthorn, remove the roots, stems and stones (which can be omitted). You can also cut the hawthorn horizontally and add your favorite stuffing, such as bean paste.

(2) String the processed hawthorn with bamboo sticks and air dry.

(3) Pour the crystal sugar and water into the pot, cook with strong fire until the crystal sugar melts, and stir in the middle to promote the melting.

(4) After all the rock sugar is dissolved in water, turn to low heat, cover the pot and cook for a while.

(5) After the syrup is boiled, quickly put the hawthorn skewers on the side of the pot, pour the syrup evenly with a spoon, and put it in an oiled plate.

(6) It can be eaten after cooling slightly.

Tremella hawthorn soup

50g of hawthorn, 0g of cactus100g, 50g of tremella, and appropriate amount of rock sugar. Remove impurities from tremella, wash it and stew it in the usual way. Peel cactus, cut into pieces, wash hawthorn and slice. When the tremella will be crisp and rotten, put it in with the rock sugar until the juice becomes soup. This prescription has the functions of nourishing yin and stomach, moistening lung and promoting fluid production, strengthening heart, nourishing blood vessels, lowering blood lipid and blood pressure, and is suitable for patients with hypertension, hyperlipidemia and coronary heart disease.

Hawthorn porridge

50 grams of hawthorn and japonica rice, and appropriate amount of rock sugar. Slice hawthorn and cook porridge with japonica rice. After the porridge is cooked, add rock sugar and mix well. Cook breakfast and dinner twice a day. Suitable for stagnation of food accumulation, digestion and meat transformation; Women's postpartum blood stasis abdominal pain, lochia and dysmenorrhea; Children don't have to eat milk; Hypertension, coronary insufficiency, angina pectoris, hyperlipidemia.

Hawthorn cinnamon lotus leaf soup

Hawthorn and cassia seed each 15g, half a lotus leaf. Slice hawthorn, shred lotus leaves, decoct cassia seed in water, and take juice instead of tea. Suitable for coronary heart disease, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, obesity, etc. Cassia seed has the effects of lowering serum cholesterol and inhibiting the formation of atherosclerotic plaque in aorta, and its water extract has the effect of lowering blood pressure. Lotus leaf has the effects of quenching thirst, removing blood stasis, helping spleen and stomach, and eliminating edema. Compatibility with hawthorn can reduce fat, lower blood pressure, lose weight and keep fit. It is a good medicine for hypertension and dizziness.