Hawthorn

Hawthorn, also known as "mountain red" and "rouge fruit", has high nutritional and medicinal value. In addition to being eaten fresh, hawthorn can be made into hawthorn slices, fruit bark, hawthorn cake, red jam, preserved fruit, hawthorn wine, etc. Hawthorn slices and hawthorn fruit bark are the most common and popular varieties.

Hawthorn trees have strong adaptability and are easy to cultivate. They have neat crowns, luxuriant branches and leaves, less harm from diseases and insect pests, and delicious and lovely flowers and fruits. Therefore, they are also a good ornamental tree species for fieldside and home garden greening. Laixi large-fruit hawthorn has a larger fruit shape, with a fruit diameter of more than 2.5 cm and a single fruit weight of more than 10 grams. Laixi mountain ballast has an excellent taste, moderate sweetness and sourness, and a unique flavor. The famous "Qingdao Sugar Ball Club" mostly uses Laixi hawthorn as raw material.

Nutritional benefits: Hawthorn tablets contain a variety of vitamins, tartaric acid, citric acid, maslinic acid, malic acid, etc., as well as brass, lactones, sugars, protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, and iron. And other minerals, the lipolytic enzyme contained in it can promote the digestion of fatty foods. Promote gastric juice secretion and increase gastric enzymes and other functions. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that hawthorn has the effects of eliminating accumulation and stagnation, astringing and stopping dysentery, activating blood circulation and removing blood clots. It is mainly used to treat food stagnation, chest and diaphragm fullness, hernia, blood stasis and amenorrhea. Hawthorn contains medicinal ingredients such as terpenes and brass, which have significant blood vessel dilation and blood pressure lowering effects, strengthen myocardium, anti-arrhythmia, and regulate blood lipid and cholesterol levels.

This is only for the fittest: everyone can eat it. It is especially suitable for children, pregnant women, the elderly, and those with indigestion. People with colds, indigestion, loss of appetite, children with cartilage calcium deficiency, and children with iron deficiency anemia can eat more hawthorn tablets. 20~30 grams each time.

Special reminder: Traditional Chinese medicine believes that people with weak spleen and stomach should not eat more of hawthorn as long as it is not a supplement. Healthy people should also eat hawthorn in moderation, especially children, who are in the period of tooth replacement. Overeating hawthorn, hawthorn slices, hawthorn cake, etc. for a long time is not good for tooth growth. In addition, hawthorn slices and fruit bark contain a lot of sugar. If children eat too much, their blood sugar will remain at a high level and they will not feel hungry, which will affect their eating. Long-term consumption of large amounts can lead to nutritional deficiencies, anemia, etc. Diabetics should not eat it, but they can eat hawthorn fruits appropriately. Be sure to rinse your mouth and brush your teeth promptly after eating to prevent damage to your teeth.

Fructus Crataegi Cuneatae

(English) Nippon Hawthorn Fruit

Also known as southern hawthorn, small-leaf hawthorn, red fruit.

It is the fruit of the Rosaceae plant Crataegus cuneats Sieb. Et Zucc.

Plant form: deciduous shrub. The branches are densely grown, with fine thorns, and the young branches are pubescent. The leaves are obovate, 2 to 6 cm long and 0.8 to 2.5 cm wide. The apex is often 3-lobed, the base is narrowly wedge-shaped and extends down to the stalk, and the edges are sharp and heavily serrated. The corymb inflorescence, the total pedicel and the pedicel are pubescent, and the flowers are white. Pome fruit is spherical or pear-shaped, red or yellow, about 1 to 2cm in diameter, with a larger and reflexed calyx. The flowering period is from May to June, and the fruiting period is from August to October.

Born on sunny slopes or mountain bushes, mainly produced in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Yunnan, and Sichuan.

Harvesting: Harvest the fruits when they are mature in autumn, blanch them briefly in boiling water and then dry them or dry them directly.

Characteristics: The fruit is small, spherical, 0.8-1.4cm in diameter, and some are pressed into a cake shape. The surface is brown to brown-red with fine wrinkles, the top is sunken, there are calyx remnants, and the base has fruit stems or has fallen off. Hard texture, thin pulp, slightly sour taste.

Chemical ingredients include chlorogenic acid, caffeic acid, crataegolic acid, quercetin, hyperin, and epicatechin. epicatechin) etc. It is the fruit of Rosaceae plant hawthorn, mountain red or wild hawthorn. Mainly produced in Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places.

[Nature and flavor] It is sour, sweet, and slightly warm in nature.

[Function and Indications] Appetite and digestion, resolve stagnation and accumulation, activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis, resolve phlegm and promote qi. It is used for meat stasis, accumulation of lumps, abdominal distension and fullness, abdominal pain due to blood stasis, phlegm, diarrhea, and bleeding due to intestinal wind.

[Clinical Application]

1. Treat indigestion: Grind 10 grams of burnt hawthorn, add appropriate amount of brown sugar, and drink with boiling water, 3 times a day.

Or 10 grams of raw hawthorn, 10 grams of fried malt, decoct in water and take twice a day.

2. Treat high blood pressure, liver fire, headache, and summer heat thirst: 15 grams of hawthorn, 50 grams of fresh lotus leaves, boiled water instead of tea and drink regularly.

3. Treat the onset of dysentery: 30 grams of hawthorn, 15 grams each of red and white sucrose, decocted in water and 5 grams of fine tea.

4. Treat hyperlipidemia: 10 grams of hawthorn, 10 grams of chrysanthemum, and 15 grams of cassia seeds. Slightly decoct and make tea, once a day.

5. Treat postpartum abdominal pain: 30 grams of hawthorn and 15 grams of Cyperus rotundus. Decoction it thickly and take it once a day, 2 times a day.

6. Treatment of amenorrhea: 60 grams of hawthorn, 10 grams of Gallus gallus gallus L., 10 grams of safflower, 30 grams of brown sugar, decocted and taken once a day.

7. To treat menstrual disorders and pain caused by cervical cancer: 50 grams of hawthorn, 3 grams of safflower, 1 herring (about 1000 grams), 1000 ml of peanut oil, 30 grams of brown sugar, white sugar, salt , sesame oil, starch, ginger, and green onion in appropriate amounts. Decoction the hawthorn, safflower and brown sugar and set aside. Wash the herring, mix the starch with water and apply it on both sides of the fish. Put the oil into the pot until it is seven or eight times cooked, place the fish in the oil pot, fry until golden brown, remove and put on a plate and set aside. Finally, take 50 ml of sesame oil and cook it in a pot. Add hawthorn juice, a small amount of vinegar, brown sugar, white sugar, salt, and starch to form a thin gravy. Stir it slightly, add a little ginger and green onion, take it out of the pot, and pour it on the fish. , can be eaten as a meal.

Hawthorn is the fruit of hawthorn, mountain red or wild hawthorn of the Rosaceae plant. Mainly produced in Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places.

[Nature and flavor] It is sour, sweet, and slightly warm in nature.

[Functions and Indications] Appetite and digestion, resolve stagnation and accumulation, activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis, resolve phlegm and promote qi. It is used for meat stasis, accumulation of lumps, abdominal distension and fullness, abdominal pain caused by blood stasis, phlegm, diarrhea, bleeding due to intestinal wind, etc.

[Clinical Application]

1. Treat indigestion: Grind 10 grams of burnt hawthorn, add appropriate amount of brown sugar, and drink with boiling water, 3 times a day. Or 10 grams of raw hawthorn, 10 grams of fried malt, decoct in water and take twice a day.

2. Treat high blood pressure, liver fire, headache, and summer heat thirst: 15 grams of hawthorn, 50 grams of fresh lotus leaves, boiled water instead of tea and drink regularly.

3. Treat the onset of dysentery: 30 grams of hawthorn, 15 grams each of red and white sucrose, decocted in water and 5 grams of fine tea.

4. Treat hyperlipidemia: 10 grams of hawthorn, 10 grams of chrysanthemum, and 15 grams of cassia seeds. Slightly decoct and make tea, once a day.

5. Treat postpartum abdominal pain: 30 grams of hawthorn and 15 grams of Cyperus rotundus. Decoction it thickly and take it once a day, 2 times a day.

6. Treatment of amenorrhea: 60 grams of hawthorn, 10 grams of Gallus gallus gallus L., 10 grams of safflower, 30 grams of brown sugar, decocted and taken once a day.

7. To treat menstrual disorders and pain caused by cervical cancer: 50 grams of hawthorn, 3 grams of safflower, 1 herring (about 1000 grams), 1000 ml of peanut oil, 30 grams of brown sugar, white sugar, salt , sesame oil, starch, ginger, and green onion in appropriate amounts. Decoction the hawthorn, safflower and brown sugar and set aside. Wash the herring, mix the starch with water and apply it on both sides of the fish. Put the oil into the pot until it is seven or eight times cooked, place the fish in the oil pot, fry until golden brown, remove and put on a plate and set aside. Finally, take 50 ml of sesame oil and cook it in a pot. Add hawthorn juice, a small amount of vinegar, brown sugar, white sugar, salt, and starch to form a thin gravy. Stir it slightly, add a little ginger and green onion, take it out of the pot, and pour it on the fish. , can be eaten as a meal.

[Usage and Dosage] Eat raw, decoct in water, or take as juice. 10-30 grams each time.

[Contraindications] People with hyperacidity, peptic ulcers and dental caries, and those who are taking tonic medicines, should not take this product.

[Ingredients and Medicinal Use]

This product contains sugar, protein, fat, vitamin C, carotene, starch, malic acid, citric acid, calcium and iron, etc. , has the effects of lowering blood lipids, blood pressure, strengthening the heart and anti-arrhythmia. The flavonoid compound vitexin in hawthorn is a drug with strong anti-cancer effects. Hawthorn extract has a certain inhibitory effect on the growth, proliferation, infiltration and metastasis of cancer cells in the body

Hawthorn has important medicinal value. Since ancient times, it has been a good medicine for strengthening the spleen and appetizing, digesting food and resolving stagnation, promoting blood circulation and reducing phlegm. The fruit of hawthorn is used as medicine. It is slightly warm in nature, sour and sweet in taste, and enters the spleen, stomach, and liver meridians. It has the functions of digesting food and strengthening the stomach, activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, astringing and stopping dysentery. It is effective in treating meat and phlegm accumulation, soreness, dysentery, intestinal wind, low back pain and hernia, pillow pain in postpartum infants, persistent lochia, and stagnant feeding of infants.

Because hawthorn contains a variety of organic acids such as maslinic acid, tastes sour and sweet, and contains lipase. After entering the stomach, it can enhance the function of enzymes, promote the digestion of meat, and help convert cholesterol. Therefore, For people who feel full after eating meat or greasy food, eating hawthorn, hawthorn slices, hawthorn water or hawthorn pills, etc., can help digestion. It is a safe food for the elderly. Hawthorn can also promote bile and promote gastric juice secretion.

Because hawthorn is rich in a variety of organic acids, it can maintain the vitamin C in hawthorn and will not be destroyed even when heated. Therefore, after making hawthorn cake and other products, the vitamin C will still be present. Can be saved. Hawthorn is also rich in carotene, calcium, oleanolic acid, ornithine, hawthorn and other triterpenoid acids and flavonoids and other beneficial ingredients (flavonoids polyflavans, trimeric flavans, tannins and other beneficial ingredients). Chemical components), can relax blood vessels, strengthen and regulate myocardium, increase ventricular and cardiac motion amplitude and coronary blood flow, reduce serum cholesterol and lower blood pressure; in addition, hawthorn has good effects on cardiac activity dysfunction, vascular neurosis, fibrillation It also has an auxiliary therapeutic effect on arrhythmia and other diseases; hawthorn also contains quercetin, which has the functions of dilating blood vessels, promoting the movement of tracheal cilia, excreting phlegm and relieving asthma. Therefore, hawthorn is an ideal health food for preventing and treating cardiovascular diseases and has good curative effect. The food has been recently used in the prevention and treatment of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, etc., and has achieved good results. Taking 50 grams of hawthorn + 100 grams of wintergreen and decoction in water twice a day can effectively reduce serum cholesterol; taking an infusion made of hawthorn flowers and leaves has a better effect on lowering blood pressure.

Fruit Diet - Hawthorn

1. Medicinal Efficacy Hawthorn has important medicinal value. Since ancient times, it has been a good medicine for strengthening the spleen and appetizing, digesting food and resolving stagnation, promoting blood circulation and reducing phlegm. . At present, there are more than 50 kinds of traditional Chinese medicine formulas using hawthorn as raw materials. For example, common appetizers and spleen-strengthening medicines include "Hawthorn Pills" and "Jiao Sanxian".

The fruit of hawthorn is used for medicinal purposes. It is slightly warm in nature and tastes sour and sweet. It enters the spleen, stomach and liver meridians and has the functions of digesting food and strengthening the stomach, activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, astringing and stopping dysentery. It is effective in treating meat and phlegm accumulation, soreness, dysentery, intestinal wind, low back pain and hernia, pillow pain in postpartum infants, persistent lochia, and stagnant feeding of infants.

Because hawthorn contains a variety of organic acids such as maslinic acid, tastes sour and sweet, and contains lipase. After entering the stomach, it can enhance the function of enzymes, promote the digestion of meat, and help convert cholesterol. Therefore, For people who feel full after eating meat or greasy food, eating hawthorn, hawthorn slices, hawthorn water or hawthorn pills, etc., can help digestion. It is a safe food for the elderly. Hawthorn can also promote bile and promote gastric juice secretion.

Because hawthorn is rich in a variety of organic acids, it can maintain the vitamin C in hawthorn and will not be destroyed even when heated. Therefore, after making hawthorn cake and other products, the vitamin C will still be present. Can be saved. Hawthorn is also rich in carotene, calcium, oleanolic acid, ornithine, hawthorn and other triterpenoid acids and flavonoids and other beneficial ingredients (flavonoids polyflavans, trimeric flavans, tannins and other beneficial ingredients). Chemical components), can relax blood vessels, strengthen and regulate myocardium, increase ventricular and cardiac motion amplitude and coronary blood flow, reduce serum cholesterol and lower blood pressure; in addition, hawthorn has good effects on cardiac activity dysfunction, vascular neurosis, fibrillation It also has an auxiliary therapeutic effect on arrhythmia and other diseases; hawthorn also contains quercetin, which has the functions of dilating blood vessels, promoting the movement of tracheal cilia, excreting phlegm and relieving asthma. Therefore, hawthorn is an ideal health food for preventing and treating cardiovascular diseases and has good curative effect. The food has been recently used in the prevention and treatment of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, etc., and has achieved good results. Taking 50 grams of hawthorn + 100 grams of wintergreen and decoction in water twice a day can effectively reduce serum cholesterol; taking an infusion made of hawthorn flowers and leaves has a better effect on lowering blood pressure.

Ancient Chinese medical scientists have long paid attention to the role of hawthorn in softening and eliminating accumulation. When cooking hard meat of old chicken, add a few hawthorns and it will become easy to rot, which shows that it has the effect of eliminating accumulated meat. Traditional Chinese medicine Jiaolanxian, Baohe Pills, Shanzha Pills, etc. all contain hawthorn as their main ingredient; hawthorn also has the functions of dispersing blood clots, stopping bleeding, preventing heatstroke, and refreshing people.

Vitexin and other compounds contained in hawthorn have anti-cancer effects. Commonly used hawthorn is beneficial to cancer prevention. According to reports, hawthorn slices decoction can extend the lifespan of animals with tumors, such as inhibiting Ehrlich ascites cancer cells in mice, and inhibiting human cervical cancer TCC-26 by 70%; fresh mountain plants have anti-phage effects , indicating that it has anti-cancer activity; it can not only strengthen the stomach and intestines in patients with early stage uterine cancer, colon cancer, etc., but also has anti-cancer and stasis-removing effects.

For those with colds, indigestion, and loss of appetite, eating hawthorn and its products is very effective.

According to pharmacological tests, in vitro tests of Jiaoshan hawthorn decoction have obvious inhibitory effects on various dysentery bacilli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli, aureus, Bacillus anthracis, etc.; therefore, it can be used to treat bacillary dysentery. treat.

Because hawthorn contains a lot of organic acids, it has astringent and stasis-removing effects, so it also has the effect of contracting the uterus. Pregnant women suffering from habitual abortion or threatened abortion should not eat it to avoid damaging the fetus.

Hawthorn also has the effect of treating tapeworms. According to clinical reports, take 1 kilogram of fresh hawthorn, wash it, and chew it from 15:00 to 22:00. No dinner. Take 100 grams of betel nut decoction in water the next morning and then rest in bed. If you feel like having a bowel movement, endure it for a while before going. Defecating; complete tapeworms can be excreted; it is advisable to sit in a toilet with warm water in winter to prevent the tapeworms from shrinking when exposed to cold, and the effectiveness can reach 100%. It has also been clinically reported that 20% hawthorn decoction is flavored with sugar and taken 200 ml each time, 3 times a month; 7 to 10 days is a course of treatment, and the effective rate in treating acute bacillary dysentery is 100%. Taking 100 grams of hawthorn decoction in water is also effective for mild and medium-sized dysentery.

The pectin content in hawthorn ranks first among all fruits, reaching 6.4%. According to the latest research, pectin has the effect of anti-radiation material and takes away half of the radioactive elements (strontium, cobalt) from the body. , palladium, etc.). Pectin also has adsorbent and antibacterial properties, which can remove bacteria and toxins from the intestines and bind water, therefore, it can cure diarrhea.

Hawthorn is also rich in calcium and carotene. The calcium content ranks first among fruits, and the carotene content is second only to jujube and kiwi fruit. It is most suitable for children and pregnant women.

Hawthorn can be eaten alone or in combination with other foods and medicines to improve its therapeutic effect. For example, hawthorn slices, fruit bark, hawthorn cake, etc. have the functions of strengthening the heart, lowering blood pressure, lowering blood lipids, softening blood vessels, and promoting digestion. They are ideal foods for patients with arteriosclerosis, indigestion, and lack of gastric acid. Dusheng Powder is made from hawthorn alone and brown sugar, which can activate blood circulation and remove blood clots, promote appetite, and help digestion. It is suitable for children with postpartum congestion and pillow pain.

Jiao Sanxian, made from hawthorn, malt, divine song, etc., can be used to treat indigestion, fullness due to dietary stagnation, heating, and lack of appetite; the combination of hawthorn and citrus aurantium can eliminate accumulated pimples and is used for For food stagnation and fullness of the wrist and abdomen, the combination of hawthorn and woody scent can help digestion, fullness and pain in the abdomen; the combination of hawthorn and Ligusticum chuanxiong can promote blood circulation and relieve pain; adding angelica can disperse stasis and relieve pain, and is used for postpartum lochia and pillow pain in children.

Use 15 grams of hawthorn, 6 grams of apocynum leaves, 5 grams of Schisandra chinensis and rock sugar to make antihypertensive tea. Long-term consumption can reduce blood lipids and blood pressure, prevent and treat coronary heart disease, and add 15g of hawthorn tablets and 10g of chrysanthemum. 15 grams of Cassia Seeds can be made into tea instead of tea, and can be made into Chrysanthemum and Cassia Cassia Powder, which can moisturize the intestines and relieve constipation, lower blood pressure and blood lipids, and is suitable for patients with hypertension and coronary heart disease. Add 15 grams of hawthorn and 12 grams of lotus leaves, and decoct it in water to make a hawthorn lotus leaf drink. It can lower blood pressure and blood lipids, expand blood vessels, and is suitable for patients with high blood pressure and hyperlipidemia. 10 grams of hawthorn, 6 grams of cinnamon and brown sugar can be made into cinnamon hawthorn decoction, which can warm menstruation and dispel cold, activate blood circulation and remove blood clots, and is suitable for women with cold evil. Delayed menstruation and dysmenorrhea. Take 60 grams of raw hawthorn, remove the core, dry and grind it into powder, add 30 grams of dried Gallus gallus gallinae powder to make Hawthorn Neijin powder, 15 grams each time, take it with 15 grams of Liujinu decoction and add brown sugar, 3 times a day, to treat severe amenorrhea. According to the test, 50 grams each of hawthorn and motherwort are boiled in water and added with brown sugar to make a hawthorn and motherwort paste. It can activate blood circulation and remove blood clots, nourish the body and strengthen the stomach. It is suitable for patients with postpartum congestion and persistent lochia. Hawthorn is added with grain buds, betel nut, and husk. Grind equal amounts. Make Xiaoshi Powder, take 1~2 grams per serving, which can strengthen the spleen and whet the appetite.

Hawthorn and glutinous rice are added to make hawthorn porridge, which can stimulate appetite and digestion, resolve stagnation and accumulation, activate blood circulation and remove blood clots, converge and stop dysentery. It is suitable for patients with abdominal distension, indigestion, abdominal pain and diarrhea due to food accumulation. Add 1kg of fresh hawthorn to 100g of peach kernels and 250g of honey to make hawthorn and peach kernel dew; it can activate blood circulation and resolve stagnation, strengthen the stomach and eliminate food, lower blood pressure, lower blood lipids, lower cholesterol, expand blood vessels, and nourish the heart muscle. It is suitable for long-term use by patients with cardiovascular disease. . Add 60 grams of mountain plants to 300 grams of water chestnuts, white sugar, etc. to make snow red soup, which can stimulate appetite and digestion, strengthen the heart and lower blood pressure, relax blood vessels, clear the liver and resolve stagnation. It is suitable for patients with high blood pressure, arteriosclerosis and coronary heart disease with excessive liver fire. . Add 250 grams of hawthorn, 500 grams of salvia, 250 grams of wolfberry, honey, rock sugar, etc. to make liver-nourishing and stasis-removing honey. It can replenish heart blood, clear liver heat, slow down liver qi, break blood stasis, unblock meridians, and moisturize stool. It is suitable for the recovery of hepatitis patients. Drink regularly.

100 grams of hawthorn is added with lean pork and other seasonings to make hawthorn dried meat, which can nourish yin and moisturize dryness, resolve food and eliminate accumulation, and lower blood lipids. It is suitable for spleen deficiency and stagnation. Symptoms include constipation, diarrhea, high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, and indigestion.

500 grams each of hawthorn, honeysuckle, and chrysanthemum plus 5 kilograms of honey are made into Shuanghua Drink, which can clear away heat and detoxify, promote body fluids and moisturize dryness, dispel wind and eliminate accumulation. It is suitable for symptoms such as excessive thirst, upset, dizziness, headache, and red eyes due to summer heat. 50 grams of hawthorn, 150 grams of walnut kernels and white sugar can be made into hawthorn and walnut tea, which can nourish the kidneys, moisten the lungs, moisten the intestines and transform food, and is suitable for patients with body fluid loss, dry mouth, etc. Take 10 grams each of raw hawthorn and sand malt with boiling water to make a hawthorn malt drink, which can help digestion and stagnation, and is suitable for indigestion and other diseases. Take 10 grams each of hawthorn slices and salvia miltiorrhiza, add 5 grams of Ophiopogon japonicus, and make a ginseng fruit drink, which can soften blood vessels and prevent and treat high blood pressure and coronary heart disease.

[Usage and Dosage] Eat raw, decoct in water, or take as juice. 10-30 grams each time.

[Contraindications] People with hyperacidity, peptic ulcers and dental caries, and those who are taking tonic medicines, should not take this product.

[Ingredients and Medicinal Use]

This product contains sugar, protein, fat, vitamin C, carotene, starch, malic acid, citric acid, calcium and iron, etc. , has the effects of lowering blood lipids, blood pressure, strengthening the heart and anti-arrhythmia. The flavonoid compound vitexin in hawthorn is a drug with strong anti-cancer effects. Hawthorn extract has a certain inhibitory effect on the growth, proliferation, infiltration and metastasis of cancer cells in the body.

It is one of the economic wild fruits abundant in Changbai Mountain. It is a small deciduous tree of the Rosaceae family. The bark is dark gray with light yellow lenticels. The branchlets are purplish brown. Single leaves are alternate or clustered on short branches. The leaves are wide and ovate. The corymbs are white and the flowers turn pink later. , the fruit is spherical, dark red when ripe, with small light spots on the surface. The flowering period is 5-6 months, and the fruiting period is 7-10 months. It grows on sunny slopes between 400 and 1,000 meters above sea level, on the edges of mixed wood forests, among shrubs, and in vegetable forests, and is distributed in counties in the Changbai Mountain area. The red fruit is sour and sweet, can produce fluid and quench thirst, and can also be used as medicine. When used as medicine, it returns to the spleen, stomach, and liver meridians, and has the effects of digesting food, resolving accumulation, activating blood circulation and dispersing blood stasis.

English name FRUCTUS CRATAEGI

Also known as Hongguozi, Tangdizi

Source: This product is Crataegus pinnatifida Bge.var.major N.E.Br. or the dried ripe fruit of Crataegus pinnatifida Bge. Harvest the fruits when they are ripe in autumn, slice them and dry them.

Preparation method: Clean hawthorn: remove impurities and fallen cores. Fried hawthorn: Put the clean hawthorn slices into the pot and fry until light brown. The flesh of this product is yellowish brown with occasional burnt spots. The aroma is fragrant, the taste is sour and slightly sweet. According to the test under the above [Identification] item, the same results should be shown; according to the method under the above [Content Determination] item, the organic acid content shall not be less than 4.0% based on the dry product, calculated as citric acid (C6H8O7). Burnt hawthorn: Put the clean hawthorn slices into the pot and fry until the surface is burnt brown and the inside is yellowish brown. The surface of this product is burnt brown and the interior is yellowish brown. The aroma is fragrant, the taste is sour and slightly astringent. According to the test under the above [Identification] item, the same results should be shown; according to the method under the above [Content Determination] item, the organic acid content shall not be less than 4.0% based on the dry product, calculated as citric acid (C6H8O7).

Characteristics: This product is a round piece, wrinkled and uneven, with a diameter of 1~2.5cm and a thickness of 0.2~0.4cm. The outer skin is red, wrinkled, and has small gray and white spots. The flesh is dark yellow to light brown. There are 5 light yellow pits in the middle transverse section, but the pits are mostly fallen off and hollow. Short and thin fruit stems or calyx remnants can be seen on some slices. The smell is slightly fragrant, the taste is sour and slightly sweet.

Identification: Take 1g of this product powder, add 4ml of ethyl acetate, ultrasonicate for 15 minutes, filter, and use the filtrate as the test solution. Take another ursolic acid reference substance, add methanol to make a solution containing 1mg per 1ml, and use it as the reference substance solution. According to the thin layer chromatography (Appendix VI B) test, draw 4 μl of each of the above two solutions and spot them on the same silica gel G thin layer plate. Use toluene-ethyl acetate-formic acid (20:4:0.5) as the developing agent. Unfold, take out, dry, spray with sulfuric acid ethanol solution (3→10), heat at 80°C until the spots appear clear, and inspect under sunlight and ultraviolet light (365nm). In the chromatogram of the test product, at the position corresponding to the chromatogram of the reference substance, purple-red spots appear under sunlight; under ultraviolet light (365nm), orange-yellow fluorescent spots appear.

Content determination

Take about 1g of the fine powder of this product [at the same time, take another powder of this product to measure the moisture (Appendix IX H First Method)], weigh it accurately, and add 100ml of water accurately. Soak at room temperature for 4 hours, shake from time to time, filter, accurately measure 25ml of the filtrate, add 50ml of water, add 2 drops of phenolphthalein indicator solution, and titrate with sodium hydroxide titrant (0.1mol/L) to obtain. Each 1ml of sodium hydroxide titrant (0.1mol/L) is equivalent to 6.404mg of citric acid (C6H8O7).

This product shall contain no less than 5.0% organic acid calculated as citric acid (C6H8O7) on a dry basis.

The nature and flavor are sour, sweet and slightly warm. Returns to the spleen, stomach and liver meridians.

Functions: Indications: digestion, stomach strengthening, promoting qi and dispersing blood stasis. It is used for meat stasis, epigastric distension, diarrhea and abdominal pain, blood stasis and amenorrhea, postpartum blood stasis, tingling pain in the periphery, hernia pain, and hyperlipidemia. The effect of Jiaoshan hawthorn on digestion and stagnation is enhanced. It is used for stagnant meat-eating and diarrhea.

Usage and dosage: 9~12g.

Storage in a ventilated and dry place to prevent moth.

Excerpt from "Chinese Pharmacopoeia"

Modern medicine has proven that hawthorn contains citric acid, malic acid, ascorbic acid, sugar, protein, and carbohydrates. It has the effect of lowering blood pressure and promoting gastrointestinal digestion. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that hawthorn can strengthen the spleen and eliminate accumulation, which is beneficial to weight loss. It can assist in the treatment of secondary obesity.

The following are several ways to eat hawthorn:

(1) Ingredients for hawthorn soup: 500 grams of hawthorn, 100 grams of white sugar. Preparation method: Wash the hawthorn with water, remove the stems and seeds and boil it in water. Add sugar to the cooked hawthorn and drink the soup.

(2) Hawthorn tea raw materials: 500 grams of hawthorn, 200 grams of dried lotus leaves, 200 grams of coix seed, and 100 grams of licorice. Preparation method: Grind the above-mentioned herbs into fine powder and divide into 10 packets. Take one packet and brew it with boiling water every day instead of tea. The tea should be as light as possible.

(3) Raw materials of Hawthorn Silver Flower and Chrysanthemum Drink: 10 grams each of hawthorn, silver flower, and chrysanthemum. Preparation method: Crush the hawthorn, put it in a cup with silver flowers and chrysanthemums, and drink it instead of tea. The amount is 1 day.

(4) Ingredients for hawthorn and orange peel drink: 20 grams each of raw hawthorn, orange peel, and lotus leaves, and 10 grams of raw coix kernels. Preparation method: Grind the above flavors into fine powder, brew it with boiling water in a thermos bottle, and drink it in one day. Valid for March.

(5) Ingredients for hawthorn and melon rind drink: 20 grams of hawthorn, 30 grams of winter melon rind, 10 grams each of Polygonum multiflorum and Sophora japonica. Preparation method: Put the above ingredients into a pot and cook for 20 minutes, strain the juice and drink.

(6) Ingredients for bodybuilding and cellulite-reducing tea: 20 grams of hawthorn, Alisma, radish seeds, malt, tea leaves, patchouli, red soybean, cloud Poria, Cassia, tangerine peel, Liushenqu, Prunella vulgaris 7 grams each. Preparation method: Put the above flavors into a casserole, add water and simmer, filter the juice and drink it. The amount is one day.

(7) Ingredients for bodybuilding and cellulite-reducing tea: 10 grams each of raw hawthorn, raw Polygonum multiflorum, Prunella vulgaris, Alisma, radish seed and tea leaves. Preparation method: Put the above flavors into a casserole, add an appropriate amount of water and boil, strain the juice and drink it. The amount is 1 day.

(8) Double root tea raw materials: 15 grams each of tea root, hawthorn and reed root. Preparation method: Stir all the above flavors together for 20 minutes, filter the juice and drink it.

Hawthorn and yam lip mask will make your lips moist and dazzling

Lip mask Ⅰ

Ingredients: 10 grams of fresh hawthorn, 30 grams of yam, 5 grams of cinnamon powder gram.

Method:

1 Wash fresh hawthorn and yam, peel them and grind them into a paste.

2 Add cinnamon powder and make a paste.

3. After washing your face, apply the mixed dressing to your lips. Leave it on for about 15 minutes and then wash it off.

Tips:

Fresh yam and cinnamon powder can activate cells and promote blood circulation. Hawthorn can supplement vitamins for the lips. It tastes fragrant and feels like eating when applied. dessert. It is recommended that you lie down when applying the lipstick and keep your lips still.

[Beauty] Eight delicious ways to lose fat with hawthorn and lose weight

Modern medicine has proven that hawthorn contains citric acid, malic acid, ascorbic acid, sugar, protein, and carbohydrates. It has the effect of lowering blood pressure and promoting gastrointestinal digestion. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that hawthorn can strengthen the spleen and eliminate accumulation, which is beneficial to weight loss. It can assist in the treatment of secondary obesity.