Introduction of hawthorn
Crataegus pinnatifida, a Chinese medicine name, is the dried and mature fruit of Crataegus pinnatifida or Crataegus pinnatifida of Rosaceae. Harvest, slice and dry the fruit when it is ripe in autumn.
This product is a round tablet with uneven contraction, with a diameter of 1~2.5cm and a thickness of 0.2~0.4cm, with a red skin and small gray spots. The pulp is dark yellow to light brown. There are five pale yellow stones in the middle section, but most of them fall off and are hollow. Short and thin fruit stalks or calyx residues can be seen on some fragments. The gas is slightly fragrant and the acid is slightly sweet.
Hawthorn pictures
Hawthorn and its function
1. Hawthorn can prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases, and has the functions of dilating blood vessels, increasing coronary blood flow, improving heart vitality, exciting central nervous system, lowering blood pressure and cholesterol, softening blood vessels, diuresis and sedation.
2. Hawthorn contains ingredients for relieving asthma, resolving phlegm, inhibiting bacteria and treating abdominal pain and diarrhea.
3. maslinic acid also has a cardiotonic effect, which is also good for the heart of the elderly.
4. Hawthorn contains flavonoids, vitamin C, carotene and other substances, which can block and reduce the production of free radicals, enhance the body's immunity, and have anti-aging and anti-cancer effects.
5, it can stimulate appetite and digestion, especially to eliminate meat stagnation, hawthorn is used in many digestive drugs.
6. Hawthorn has contractive effect on uterus, and can promote delivery during labor, which can promote postpartum uterus recovery.
7. Hawthorn has the function of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, which helps to relieve local congestion and has an auxiliary effect on traumatic injury.
Medicinal value of hawthorn
Digestion promoting, stomach invigorating, qi promoting, blood stasis removing, turbidity removing and lipid lowering. It can be used for treating meat stagnation, epigastric fullness, diarrhea, abdominal pain, blood stasis, amenorrhea, postpartum blood stasis, stabbing pain in the heart, chest pain and hernia pain.
1, cure all food stagnation: hawthorn 42, atractylodes macrocephala 42, medicinal leaf 22. The top is the end, steamed cake pills, Luda, 70 pills, white soup. (Danxi Heart Method)
2, it is not necessary to cure meat: hawthorn meat is four or two, cooked and eaten, and its juice is drunk. ("purely unilateral")
3, cure stagnation abdominal pain: hawthorn blindly fried. (Authentic Fang Mai)
4, cure intestinal wind: jujube and meat core burn ash, rice to drink. ("10 1 choice")
5, treatment of low back and leg pain in the elderly: soup, velvet antler (baked) and other parts. For the end, honey pills are big, one hundred pills at a time, twice a day. (《》)
6, cure cold and damp abdominal pain, the external kidney is too swollen and painful: fennel, persimmon hawthorn. The first grade is divided into fine powder, one or two yuan each time, salt wine, and hollow hot clothes. ("10 1 choice")
Processing method of hawthorn
1, cleaning hawthorn: removing impurities and falling rocks.
2, fried hawthorn: take the net hawthorn, according to the frying method (the frying method without accessories is called the frying method. ) stir fry until the color becomes darker.
3, burnt hawthorn: take the net hawthorn, according to the frying method (the frying method without accessories is called the frying method. ) fry until the surface is brown and the inside is yellowish brown.
How to eat hawthorn
1, hawthorn soup
Ingredients: 500 grams of hawthorn and 200 grams of sugar, which can be increased according to your own taste.
Practice: Wash the hawthorn with clear water, remove the pedicels and seeds, and boil it in water. When they are cooked for 8 times, pour out the water and add water and sugar. Hawthorn can be eaten after it is boiled and blossomed.
2. hawthorn tea
Ingredients: 500g of hawthorn, 200g of dried lotus leaf, 200g of coix seed, and 0/00g of licorice/kloc.
Practice: Grind the essence into fine powder and divide it into 10 packets. Brew a bag of boiled water every day, without tea, the tea is weak.
3. Hawthorn drinks chrysanthemum
Material: hawthorn, honeysuckle and chrysanthemum each 10g.
Practice: Put hawthorn, honeysuckle and chrysanthemum * * * into a cup for drinking tea, daily dose 1.
4, orange hawthorn porridge
Materials: japonica rice 100g, two oranges, 30g hawthorn, sugar 10g, cold water 1500ml.
Practice: peel the oranges, tear off the tendons, leave them one by one, remove the orange cores with bamboo sticks and cut them into small triangles. After the hawthorn was washed, it was all split in two and the seeds were gone. Wash japonica rice, soak it in cold water, take it out and drain it. Add 1000 ml cold water to the pot, add japonica rice, orange slices and hawthorn slices, boil over high heat, turn to low heat to cook porridge, and finally add sugar to serve.
Effect of soaking hawthorn slices with water
There are many ways to use hawthorn, among which soaking in water is a common and simple method. I recommend a cold drink with hawthorn soaked in water, which is hawthorn and wolfberry tea. Its preparation method is: wash hawthorn, slice it, brew it with boiled water with washed Lycium barbarum, and drink it in the morning and evening. The function of this model is to nourish the liver and kidney, promote digestion and eliminate accumulation, and improve intelligence and eyesight. Suitable for dizziness and other symptoms. This product has the effects of nourishing brain and kidney, and reducing blood lipid, and is suitable for patients with cerebral arteriosclerosis.
Can I eat hawthorn?
1, pregnant women can't eat hawthorn. Of course, the reason is that hawthorn is an acidic food. It is quite big in the uterus, which can shrink it and may lead to miscarriage.
2, especially in the early stages of pregnancy, women must never touch hawthorn. Otherwise, there is a great possibility of miscarriage. Of course, if the fetus is stable, you can eat a little, and eating more is not recommended.
Even if you want to eat candied haws in winter, remember not to eat them in the early pregnancy. Even if you love it again, you should avoid it.
4. Other things made of hawthorn, although the content of hawthorn is not too high, it is still not recommended for you to eat. For example, hawthorn drinks, or canned hawthorn.
Pregnant women should also remember that soaking hawthorn in water is not acceptable. There is also the sour taste of hawthorn in it, although it has weakened a lot.
Side effects of hawthorn
Taking hawthorn powder and tablets in large quantities may lead to acid regurgitation, stomachache, heartburn and other reactions. Hawthorn snacks on the market have a high sugar content, so eat less and try to eat fresh fruit.
Hawthorn in hawthorn tea has the function of destroying qi. Eating too much will consume gas and affect the health of pregnant women and fetal development. At the same time, hawthorn can also strengthen the contraction of uterus, which can cause premature delivery or abortion.
Hawthorn contains a lot of fruit acid, which has the function of astringing and * * * gastric mucosa. The spleen and stomach function of the elderly is weak, and the development of children's spleen and stomach function is not complete. Eating too much hawthorn will consume stomach gas, reduce digestion, and cause indigestion or emaciation. So it is not suitable for eating.
Hawthorn has the function of lowering blood fat, and people with low blood fat will affect their health if they eat more hawthorn.
People with hyperacidity will secrete gastric acid, so that the gastric acid will increase rapidly and the concentration will increase, which is easy to cause nausea and acid vomiting, and can cause peptic ulcer in severe cases.
People who are weak after illness need to increase nutrition in order to recover their vitality. Hawthorn not only consumes energy, but also accelerates digestion and excretion, affecting the absorption and utilization of beneficial substances.
Hawthorn in hawthorn tea contains sour sugar, which is a strong corrosive agent, which can corrode the enamel of teeth, cause dental caries and aggravate dental diseases.
Hawthorn medical record
1, "Treating Heat and Participating in the West": Hawthorn, if supplemented with sweet herbs, can dispel blood stasis without hurting new blood, relieve depression without hurting vital qi, and its nature is especially peaceful.
2, "Tang Bencao": the main benefit of juice, shampoo and itching.
3, "Materia Medica": treating dysentery and backache.
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