Hawthorn has only one function, appetizing and digestion. The esterase contained in hawthorn can promote the digestion of fatty foods, and hawthorn can also promote the secretion of gastric juice and increase the digestion ability of the stomach.
Second, prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Flavonoids in hawthorn can dilate blood vessels and prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. The ingredients contained in hawthorn can also reduce blood lipid and blood pressure to a certain extent, and prevent arteriosclerosis and thrombosis caused by hyperlipidemia and hypertension. Hawthorn can also promote myocardial contractility and relieve angina pectoris.
Third, bacteriostasis. Hawthorn has a strong inhibitory effect on Shigella and Staphylococcus aureus, and can improve gastrointestinal diseases such as diarrhea caused by the above flora.
Hawthorn Precautions Pregnant women are forbidden to use hawthorn. Hawthorn has the function of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis and stimulating uterine contraction, which may endanger the health of pregnant women and fetuses. Hawthorn is rich in fruit acid, and people with weak spleen and stomach can easily stimulate gastric mucosa and aggravate symptoms. People with low blood lipid and blood pressure are not suitable to take hawthorn, because hawthorn has a certain effect of lowering blood lipid and blood pressure.
Taboos for eating hawthorn: 1. People with excessive gastric acid secretion such as gastric ulcer should not eat hawthorn. Because hawthorn can promote gastric acid secretion, people with gastric ulcer and gastroesophageal reflux eat hawthorn, which may aggravate symptoms such as stomach pain and heartburn.
It should not be used on an empty stomach. Because hawthorn contains a variety of organic acids and tannins, organic acids can combine with heavy metals in gastric acid or tannins and protein to generate water-insoluble polymers, which are deposited in the stomach to form lumps, that is, stomach stones.
3. People who are weak and weak in qi deficiency, it is best not to take hawthorn, because hawthorn has no nourishing effect, which is mainly to eliminate evil and digestion, dissipate blood stasis, resolve phlegm and eliminate dampness.