Hawthorn, also known as red fruit, hawthorn fruit, rouge fruit and so on. , is one of the commonly used traditional Chinese medicines, and is also a familiar food for digestion and stomach strengthening. It is the mature fruit of hawthorn, a deciduous shrub of Rosaceae. Mild in nature and sweet and sour in taste, it is spleen and stomach meridian and liver meridian. It is a traditional medicine commonly used to promote digestion and remove blood stasis.

Drinking hawthorn water has many benefits and has a certain health care effect. The most obvious benefits are strengthening the spleen to stimulate appetite, promoting digestion and promoting digestion, especially the digestion of meat. The main component of hawthorn is flavonoids, which has obvious pharmacological effects on cardiovascular system. Drinking hawthorn can reduce triglycerides and serum cholesterol in the body and soften blood vessels. Hawthorn water also has a certain effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, especially for women with menorrhagia and dysmenorrhea. Hawthorn contains vitexin, which can block the synthesis of nitrosamines in the body and has a certain preventive and therapeutic effect on cancer.

Although hawthorn water has many benefits, the amount of hawthorn water should be moderate every time, not too strong. Do not drink hawthorn water on an empty stomach.