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Efficacy and function of hawthorn
1 Xiaoshi Jianpi Hawthorn contains a variety of organic acids and vitamin C, which can improve the activity of pepsin, increase the secretion of digestive enzymes in the stomach, and promote the decomposition and digestion of protein. Chinese medicine believes that hawthorn tastes slightly sour, enters the spleen and stomach channels, strengthens the spleen and stimulates appetite, and promotes digestion and accumulation. Suitable for meat stagnation, can effectively promote digestion, enhance appetite and resolve food stagnation. Hawthorn can be used as both food and medicine, and is good at treating abdominal distension, belching, acid swallowing, anorexia, loose stool and other diseases caused by stagnation.

Hawthorn, promoting qi circulation to relieve pain, can enter the liver meridian, dissipate stagnation to relieve pain, promote qi circulation, broaden the chest and benefit the diaphragm, and improve symptoms such as hiccup, lump, acid swallowing and mass accumulation; In addition, it also has the function of stopping diarrhea and dysentery after frying. Such as diarrhea, abdominal pain and hernia pain.

3 Promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis Hawthorn is warm and sour, can enter the blood, has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and can effectively improve the symptoms such as lochia, abdominal pain due to blood stasis and tingling in the heart.

4 Turbidity-removing and lipid-lowering hawthorn can remove turbidity and lipid, and its fatty acids can promote fat digestion, reduce blood lipid and resist atherosclerosis. Modern hawthorn is commonly used to treat hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease and hypertension alone.