Spleen strengthening and appetizing. Hawthorn in hawthorn tea is sweet and slightly sour, and enters the spleen, stomach and liver meridians.
Promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, resolving phlegm and resolving hard mass.
Digestion and stagnation. The lipolytic enzyme contained in it can promote the digestion of fatty foods.
Promote the secretion of gastric juice and increase the function of enzymes in the stomach.
Digest accumulation, soften and dissolve accumulation. When cooking old chicken hard meat, adding a few hawthorns is easy to rot, which shows that it has the function of eliminating meat.
Enhance appetite, improve sleep, keep calcium in bones and blood constant, and prevent atherosclerosis. The effect is especially obvious for the elderly.
Medicinal efficacy
Indications: Meat stagnation, infantile milk stagnation, epigastric pain, blood stasis amenorrhea, postpartum blood stasis, heart stabbing pain, hernia pain, hyperlipidemia, etc.
Dilate blood vessels and lower blood sugar and blood pressure. At the same time, drinking hawthorn tea regularly has obvious auxiliary effect on treating hypertension.
Prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases has a cardiotonic effect.
Other influences
repellent
Reduce fat and lose weight. Suitable for hyperlipidemia, hypertension, coronary heart disease, simple obesity and other diseases. Hawthorn contains maslinic acid, flavonoids, lactones, sugars and glycosides. Wild hawthorn fruit contains citric acid, malic acid, maslinic acid, tannin, saponin, fructose and vitamin C. Modern medicine believes that eating hawthorn and drinking hawthorn tea are good for losing weight.
Taboos and side effects
It should not be taken together with tonics such as ginseng.
It is not advisable to eat too much at a time, and those with weak spleen and stomach should eat carefully.
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 astringent and stimulating effects on 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 hurt the stomach, reduce digestion and cause indigestion or emaciation.
Hawthorn can stimulate gastric acid secretion, make gastric acid increase rapidly, increase its concentration, easily cause nausea and acid vomiting, and even 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.