When it comes to hawthorn, the first thing people think of is that it can help digestion. In fact, hawthorn has many functions besides digestion. Not long ago, the relevant personnel of Tianjin Institute of Environmental Medicine determined the antioxidant activity of 30 kinds of fruits commonly used in China, and thought that the anti-aging effect of hawthorn ranked first among fruits.

be anticancer

In recent years, it has been found that hawthorn contains a compound called vitexin, which has anticancer effect. Both nitrosamines and aflatoxin can induce the occurrence or aggravation of digestive tract cancer. Experimental studies show that hawthorn extract can not only block the synthesis of nitrosamines, but also inhibit the carcinogenesis of aflatoxin. Therefore, people at high risk of digestive tract cancer should often eat hawthorn. For patients who already have cancer, if they have indigestion, they can also cook hawthorn and rice together to eat porridge, which can not only help digestion, but also help fight cancer.

Strengthening heart, reducing blood fat and blood pressure

Clinical studies have confirmed that hawthorn can significantly reduce serum cholesterol and triglycerides and effectively prevent and treat atherosclerosis; Hawthorn can also strengthen the heart and prevent angina pectoris by enhancing myocardial contractility, increasing cardiac output, dilating coronary blood vessels, increasing coronary blood flow and reducing myocardial oxygen consumption. In addition, the total flavonoids in hawthorn can dilate blood vessels and lower blood pressure for a long time. Therefore, patients with hyperlipidemia, hypertension and coronary heart disease can take raw hawthorn 15 ~ 30 grams every day instead of drinking tea.

Treat dysmenorrhea and menoxenia.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that hawthorn has the function of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, which is a good food therapy for patients with dysmenorrhea of blood stasis type. Patients with blood stasis dysmenorrhea often have abdominal pain 1 ~ 2 days after menstruation or 1 ~ 2 days before menstruation. When menstrual blood is discharged smoothly, the pain gradually decreases or disappears, and the menstrual blood is dark and has blood clots. Patients can take1000g of intact fresh hawthorn with stones, wash it, add appropriate amount of water, cook it with slow fire until it is cooked, add 250g of brown sugar, and cook it for10min until it becomes a thin paste. Take it for the first 3 ~ 5 days, take 30 ml hawthorn cream every morning and evening, and stop taking the medicine after 3 days. This is 1 course of treatment, and it will take effect after three courses of treatment. This method is also suitable for patients with irregular menstruation and blood stasis according to TCM syndrome differentiation.