Hawthorn is used as medicine with fruit, which is mild and sweet. Entering the spleen, stomach and liver meridian has the functions of promoting digestion, invigorating stomach, promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, astringing and stopping dysentery. It can be used for treating phlegm retention, fullness and acid swallowing, diarrhea, lumbago, hernia, postpartum pillow pain, lochia, and infantile lactation stagnation.
Because hawthorn contains a variety of organic acids, such as maslinic acid, it tastes sour and sweet, and contains lipolytic enzymes, which can enhance the role of enzymes, promote the digestion of meat and contribute to the transformation of cholesterol. Therefore, for people who feel full after eating meat or greasy things, eating hawthorn, hawthorn slices, hawthorn water or hawthorn pill can help digestion and is a key food for the elderly. Hawthorn can also benefit gallbladder and promote gastric juice secretion.
In fact, Crataegus pinnatifida and Crataegus pinnatifida belong to the same family and genus and have similar medicinal value with Crataegus pinnatifida. It can also be said that it is a close relative, but the shape is different. The fruit of hawthorn is usually large, nearly spherical, with a diameter of 2.5 cm, bright red or crimson, shiny, with persistent calyx at the top, stalk residue at the base, gray-white spots on the peel, white pulp, sweet and sour taste. Hawthorn fruit is small, with a diameter of 0.8- 1.4 cm, hard texture, fine wrinkles, brown or reddish brown surface, thin pulp and sour taste.
Hawthorn generally has many medicinal uses, and all we catch in Chinese medicine shops are hawthorn; The red fruits of candied haws are relatively large, most of which are hawthorn. There is also a saying that hawthorn is a variety of hawthorn.