Hello everyone! I am Fu Dad, a medical practitioner, who has been focusing on weight management and nutritional treatment of diseases for more than 20 years. I hope my article is useful to you.

Everyone is familiar with hawthorn, but they don't eat much. Hawthorn, also known as hawthorn, red fruit and rouge fruit, is a kind of fruit with medicinal value, which is produced in the Central Plains and northern regions.

From a nutritional point of view, hawthorn is rich in vitamins and flavonoids. However, the nutritional value of hawthorn is not great, not because hawthorn has no nutrition, but because hawthorn is not a fruit that is often eaten and eaten more. Eating hawthorn occasionally gets too little nutrition. The value of hawthorn lies in medicine, and it is a fruit with the same origin of medicine and food.

Chinese medicine believes that maslinic acid is sweet, slightly warm, and enters the spleen, stomach and liver meridians. It can be simply dried in the sun to make dried hawthorn, or processed into fried hawthorn, burnt hawthorn and hawthorn charcoal for medicine. Usually, everyone likes to drink dried hawthorn and soak in water. The most obvious effect is to promote digestion and strengthen the stomach, which is effective for abdominal distension and indigestion after meals.

Modern medical research has found that hawthorn is rich in flavonoids and organic acids, which has a certain effect on lowering blood lipid and relieving atherosclerosis. However, I would like to remind you that the hypolipidemic effect found in scientific research must be effective with hawthorn extract. In other words, it is necessary to extract a variety of effective components from hawthorn to achieve effective concentration. Only soaking hawthorn in water, there are too few flavonoids dissolved in water, and the effect is not obvious. Therefore, people with hypertension, hyperlipidemia and diabetes should not expect hawthorn to soak in water. Regular diet and lifestyle intervention and drug treatment are the right way.

In addition, hawthorn can stimulate the secretion of gastric acid. People with erosive gastritis, gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer and reflux esophagitis should not soak hawthorn in water, and their stomachs will be uncomfortable.