What are the effects and functions of hawthorn? When I was a child, many people ate candied haws, which were made of hawthorn with a layer of sugar. Hawthorn can beauty beauty and lower blood pressure. Now let's look at the efficacy and function of hawthorn in detail.
What are the effects and functions of hawthorn? Efficacy and function of 1 hawthorn
1, lowering blood pressure
According to experiments, hawthorn can enhance the contractility of myocardium, thus increasing the blood volume of the heart. Injecting hawthorn extract into the body can obviously lower blood pressure, mainly because hawthorn can dilate peripheral blood vessels. In addition, hawthorn can also reduce blood fat and cholesterol, and the elderly can eat some hawthorn to protect their health.
2. Beautiful and beautiful
The color of hawthorn is very conspicuous bright red and looks very festive. Hawthorn is rich in vitamin C, which can delay aging, beauty beauty. Eating hawthorn regularly can supplement vitamin C, which can make the skin more compact and delicate. In addition, hawthorn can also eliminate body fat, with the effect of reducing fat and slimming.
Step 3 promote digestion
Hawthorn contains a lot of acidic substances, such as maslinic acid, malic acid and citric acid. Eating hawthorn can increase the acidity of gastric juice, increase the activity of pepsin, stimulate gastric mucosa, increase gastric juice secretion and promote digestion. Hawthorn can regulate the stomach and excite smooth muscle.
Taboos for eating hawthorn
Hawthorn can promote digestion and stimulate the stomach. However, you can't eat it in large quantities or on an empty stomach. This is because hawthorn contains a lot of tannic acid. These substances will produce tannic acid protein together with gastric acid. If the tannic acid protein in the stomach accumulates for a long time, there will be diseases such as gastric ulcer and gastric bleeding.
What are the effects and functions of hawthorn? 2. The nutritional value of hawthorn
Hawthorn contains a variety of vitamins, maslinic acid, tartaric acid, citric acid, malic acid and so on. It also contains flavonoids, lactones, sugars, protein, fats and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus and iron. Lipase contained in hawthorn can promote the digestion of fatty foods. Promote the secretion of gastric juice and increase the function of enzymes in the stomach.
Second, the edible efficacy of hawthorn
Hawthorn has the functions of lowering blood fat, lowering blood pressure, strengthening heart and resisting arrhythmia, and it is also a good medicine for invigorating spleen, promoting appetite, resolving food stagnation, promoting blood circulation and resolving phlegm, and has good curative effect on chest, diaphragm and spleen fullness, hernia, blood stasis and amenorrhea. Vitexin, a flavonoid in hawthorn, is a kind of drug with strong anticancer effect, and its extract has certain inhibitory effect on the growth, proliferation, infiltration and metastasis of cancer cells in vivo.
Third, the efficacy and role of hawthorn
(1) Reducing blood lipid
Prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases, lowering blood pressure and cholesterol, softening blood vessels, diuresis and sedation.
(2) appetizing
Hawthorn is used in many drugs to help digestion, especially for digestion.
(3) promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis
Hawthorn has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, which helps to relieve local congestion and has an auxiliary effect on traumatic injury.
(4) It can treat diarrhea.
Hawthorn contains ingredients for relieving asthma, resolving phlegm, inhibiting bacteria and treating abdominal pain and diarrhea.
(5) promoting 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.
Fourth, the suitable crowd and taboo of hawthorn
1. Suitable population:
Hawthorn is suitable for dyspepsia, abdominal distension and diarrhea, especially for indigestion caused by overeating meat.
2. Not suitable for the crowd:
| Early pregnant women, especially those with a history of habitual abortion, should not be eaten to avoid abortion.
Five, hawthorn commonly used eating method (practice) daquan
1. Method for making osmanthus hawthorn cake
Ingredients: lemon, hawthorn, sugar.
Accessories: lotus root starch, osmanthus sauce
(1) 500g hawthorn was washed, cross-cut in the middle, seeded and pedicled.
(2) Pour the processed hawthorn into a cooking machine, pour a proper amount of water, squeeze in half a lemon juice, and fine.
(3) Pour the hawthorn sauce into the pot, add a proper amount of water, heat it over medium heat while stirring until bubbles appear, add 75g of white sugar, turn to low heat, and stir and cook until it becomes thick.
(4) Add 20g of lotus root starch into 30ml of clear water, stir well, pour it into hawthorn sauce, stir well, then add osmanthus sauce15g, stir well, boil, turn off the fire, pour it into a square fresh-keeping box, seal it, and put it in the refrigerator for freezing.
(5) Take out the mold and cut it into pieces. Sprinkle a proper amount of dried osmanthus flowers on the surface and enjoy ~
2. The practice of hawthorn fruit tea
Ingredients: hawthorn and carrot
Accessories: rock sugar
(1) Wash the hawthorn. Don't worry about the nuclear yet. We'll do it later.
(2) Wash carrots, peel them and cut them into diamond-shaped blocks.
(3) Put the hawthorn into the pot and cook until the hawthorn skin breaks. This process is very fast. Then take it out and remove the core and pedicle.
(4) Then cook carrots.
(5) Put the cooked hawthorn with the core and pedicels removed into a blender, add a proper amount of clear water, and mash the hawthorn. Carrots were treated in the same way to get two kinds of fruit and vegetable purees.
(6) Mix the two kinds of fruit purees, add a proper amount of water and crystal sugar, turn to low heat and cook for about 10 minute after the fire is boiled, and keep stirring. You can put more rock sugar, and it will taste better if it is sweeter.
(7) Cool after cooking, and finally filter.
3. The practice of hawthorn sugar snowball
Ingredients: hawthorn
Accessories: white sugar, boiled water, starch and white vinegar.
(1) Prepare the ingredients, wash the hawthorn and drain the water.
(2) Pierce the pedicel of hawthorn with a pen. In this way, it can be easily removed. Pedicels and seeds of hawthorn can be removed.
(3) Put the pot on fire, add sugar and water, and simmer on low heat.
(4) Cook until the sugar is completely melted and the water evaporates, and tiny white bubbles appear in the pot. Pour in 1/2 tablespoons of white vinegar and 1 tablespoon of starch, and stir quickly and evenly.
(5) Pour the processed hawthorn, immediately turn off the fire, and stir quickly with a shovel. Make the surface of hawthorn evenly coated with sugar juice.
(6) Pour out and let the hawthorn cool completely.