What are the functions and taboos of dried hawthorn? Hawthorn, as a kind of food we often eat in our daily life, has extremely high nutritional value. It has a good conditioning and treatment effect and is very easy for our human body. Let me give you a detailed introduction.
The efficacy of dried hawthorn 1 Hawthorn, also known as Shanlihong, has the effects of strengthening the spleen, stimulating appetite, promoting digestion, promoting blood circulation and resolving phlegm, and has a good therapeutic effect on chest and diaphragm fullness, hernia, blood stasis and amenorrhea in clinic. It also has the effects of lowering blood lipid, lowering blood pressure, strengthening heart, resisting arrhythmia, and inhibiting bacteria, and has a good therapeutic effect on abdominal pain and diarrhea. It has a good conditioning and treatment effect on hernia, blood stasis pain, arrhythmia and high cholesterol content. Hawthorn also has the function of lipolytic enzyme, which is beneficial to the digestion of fatty foods and improves the digestion ability of the stomach. Some people are not suitable for eating hawthorn, including pregnant women with excessive gastric acid secretion, people with weak spleen and stomach after illness, and children with developing teeth are not suitable for eating hawthorn for a long time. Otherwise, it will affect dental health. Because hawthorn has the function of breaking blood and removing blood stasis, it will promote uterine contraction and easily cause abortion. Therefore, it is not suitable for pregnant women to eat, but it can be eaten after delivery, which is conducive to uterine recovery.
Efficacy and function of dried hawthorn
1, efficacy
Dried hawthorn is made of high-quality large-particle hawthorn fruit, which is sliced and dried by hand. The surface is brown to reddish brown, with fine wrinkles, the top is sunken, there are calyx residues, and the base has fruit stalks or has fallen off. Hawthorn has strong adaptability, super waterlogging resistance, easy cultivation, neat crown, lush branches and leaves, few pests and diseases, delicious flowers and fruits, and is also a good ornamental tree species for greening in fields and gardens. Dried hawthorn has the effects of reducing blood fat, stimulating appetite, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. 1. Hawthorn has the effects of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and can relieve local blood stasis, which can be used for relieving traumatic injury. 2. Flavonoids, such as catechin, anthocyanin, hyperoside, rutin, quercetin, etc. Dried hawthorn contains lipid-lowering components, which can obviously reduce the levels of total cholesterol, triglyceride and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and increase the level of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and has a certain lipid-lowering effect. 3. The appetizing dried hawthorn contains a variety of organic acids such as maslinic acid, which tastes sour and sweet, and also contains lipolytic enzymes. After entering the stomach, it can enhance the function of enzymes, promote meat digestion, help cholesterol conversion, benefit gallbladder and promote gastric juice secretion.
2. Nutritional value
Dried hawthorn contains flavonoids and triterpenoid saponins (ursolic acid, oleanolic acid, maslinic acid, etc. ), fatty acids, chlorogenic acid, caffeic acid, vitamin C and various trace elements. Hawthorn is high in dry calories and contains carotene, calcium, carbohydrates, pectin and so on. It is good for the human body. The pectin content in dried hawthorn is the highest among all fruits. Pectin not only has the function of radiation protection, but also has good adsorption and antibacterial properties, which can remove intestinal bacteria and toxins and combine with water, thus helping to relieve diarrhea. Dried hawthorn contains vitamin C, vitamin B, carotene and various organic acids. Oral administration can increase the secretion of digestive enzymes in the stomach, and the protease and fatty acid contained in it can promote the decomposition and digestion of meat.
3. Preventive measures
Not suitable for eating together
1. Eating dried hawthorn and pig liver together may destroy vitamin C in human body and reduce its nutritional value. 2. Seafood food is rich in calcium and protein, which will react with dried hawthorn and may cause nausea, vomiting, dizziness and other adverse symptoms. 3. Duck and dried hawthorn have a similar relationship. These two kinds of food belong to cold food, so you can't eat them together. Eating them may have a bad effect on your health.
Suitability and taboo
Suitability: The dried hawthorn of patients with obesity, scurvy and viral hepatitis has the effects of reducing blood fat, stimulating appetite, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Dried hawthorn is most suitable for people who feel full after eating, especially those with indigestion and epigastric pain. Middle-aged and elderly patients with heart weakness, hypertension, coronary heart disease, angina pectoris, hyperlipidemia and paroxysmal tachycardia can eat dried hawthorn; Women with overdue menstruation or postpartum abdominal pain and blood stasis can eat dried hawthorn; In addition, it is also suitable for patients with obesity, scurvy, viral hepatitis, fatty liver, acute and chronic nephritis, tapeworm disease and intestinal infection.
Taboo: pregnant women, physical weakness, spleen and stomach weakness, dental patients, etc. , physical weakness or dental disease, spleen and stomach weakness should not be eaten.
Children in the period of changing teeth are not suitable for eating. If children eat dried hawthorn for a long time, it will affect the growth of teeth and have a negative impact.
Mothers and babies should avoid it.
Pregnant women should eat carefully.
Pregnant women should not eat dried hawthorn, hawthorn can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and has the effect of contracting uterine smooth muscle. Excessive consumption of dried hawthorn by pregnant women has the risk of inducing abortion.
Babies can eat in moderation.
Children can eat dried hawthorn in moderation, which helps the baby digest food, strengthen the spleen and stimulate appetite, especially meat, but it is not advisable to eat too much.
skill
It is recommended not to eat more than 25 grams of dried hawthorn every day. In order to reduce blood fat and soften blood vessels, you must eat it every day, preferably with cassia seed and antioxidant Polygonum multiflorum Thunb, and the effect is better. Dry hawthorn can't be eaten on an empty stomach. Dried hawthorn contains a lot of organic acids, fruit acids, maslinic acid, citric acid and so on. Eating on an empty stomach will make stomach acid soar and cause adverse stimulation to gastric mucosa.
The dried hawthorn can be mixed with medicinal materials, such as rose, honey, dried tangerine peel, jujube, lotus leaf, cassia seed, chrysanthemum and wolfberry fruit. Each matched medicinal material can be matched with hawthorn to better serve human health and adjust and treat related diseases and symptoms of human body. Hawthorn and lotus leaf soaked in water can lower blood fat, lower blood pressure, strengthen spleen and clear heart. It is a good choice for preventing and treating obesity and adjuvant treatment of hypertension and arteriosclerosis. Hawthorn can also be soaked in water with honey, which is also very effective in relieving constipation and treating abdominal distension and indigestion. It must be remembered that hawthorn can't soak in water with ginseng.
The effect of dried hawthorn 2 Every autumn, when a large number of hawthorn is ripe, people will pick fresh hawthorn slices and sun them into dried hawthorn. The dried hawthorn cake can be used as medicine or directly soaked in water. Today, I will focus on the benefits of soaking water, so that everyone can better understand the efficacy of soaking hawthorn in water.
Effect of soaking hawthorn in water
1, preventing cardiovascular diseases
Hawthorn dried fruit is rich in flavonoids, which can be absorbed and utilized as soon as possible when people soak it in water. They can improve the elasticity of blood vessels, clean up the accumulated cholesterol in blood vessels, purify blood, promote blood circulation and maintain cardiovascular health.
2. Promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis
After being used as medicine, dried hawthorn plays an important role in promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and soaking in water at ordinary times can also play an important role in promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. When women suffer from dysmenorrhea due to blood stasis, they can directly drink dried hawthorn water, which can quickly relieve the symptoms of dysmenorrhea. In addition, when people suffer from other blood stasis diseases, drinking dried hawthorn water can also improve symptoms.
Step 3 prevent cancer
Usually, soaking hawthorn in water can prevent cancer, because vitexin contained in this food is a natural anticancer component, which can inhibit the generation of carcinogens such as ammonium nitrite and aflatoxin in the human body and prevent human cancer. Drinking hawthorn water at ordinary times can effectively prevent cancer, while drinking hawthorn water for cancer patients can prevent cancer from spreading to some extent.
Step 4 Reduce fat and lose weight
There are some lipolytic enzymes in dried hawthorn, which can accelerate the decomposition of fat in human body, and the fruit acid contained in it can promote the secretion of gastric acid. Usually people use it to soak in water, so as to improve the digestion ability of the stomach, prevent the accumulation of fat in the human body, and accelerate the decomposition and metabolism of excess fat in the human body, which plays an important role in preventing hyperlipidemia and slimming.
5. Promote uterine recovery.
Hawthorn has contractive effect on uterus, and it can promote delivery when pregnant women are in labor, which can promote postpartum uterus recovery.
6. Anti-aging
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.
7. Treat diarrhea
Hawthorn contains ingredients for relieving asthma, resolving phlegm, inhibiting bacteria and treating abdominal pain and diarrhea.