Diabetes is also called "diabetes" in Chinese medicine. Diet, exercise and drugs are the three major links to control diabetes, among which diet is the most basic and important. The compounds hyperin and ursolic acid contained in hawthorn can reduce blood fat, repair cells and nourish cells, reduce blood fat, strengthen heart, dissipate blood stasis and dilate blood vessels, treat capillary embrittlement, prevent hemorrhagic stroke and help prevent diabetes and its cardiovascular diseases.

2 Hawthorn soaking in water to lower blood sugar should pay attention to 1. Proper consumption of compounds such as hawthorn brass in hawthorn can reduce blood fat and assist in lowering blood sugar, but hawthorn also contains a lot of sugar, so diabetic patients must eat hawthorn in moderation.

2. You can't eat acidic substances such as organic acids in hawthorn on an empty stomach, which can promote the secretion of gastric juice. Eating hawthorn on an empty stomach will cause symptoms of stomach pain, and eating hawthorn on an empty stomach will also increase blood sugar.

3. Control of total energy Diabetes patients must control the amount of hawthorn, and take the method of total energy to calculate. If they eat too much hawthorn, they will reduce the intake of staple food.

4. Self-test blood sugar Measure blood sugar before and after eating hawthorn. Diabetic patients must learn to self-test blood sugar, observe blood sugar fluctuations caused by diet, and do a good job in blood sugar monitoring.

3 How to soak hawthorn in water to drink hypoglycemic hawthorn and medlar in water

Ingredients: 5-8 pieces of dried hawthorn and 0/0 piece of Lycium barbarum.

Practice:

1. Wash Fructus Crataegi and Fructus Lycii and put them in a teacup.

2. Soak in boiling water for about 30 minutes.

3. The prepared hawthorn and wolfberry tea can be drunk separately in the morning and afternoon.

4 Who can't eat hawthorn 1. People with weak stomach can promote the secretion of gastric juice because of the organic acid in hawthorn, which is easy to cause stomach pain.

2. People with bad teeth will corrode tooth glaze because of the acidic substances in hawthorn, which will have harmful effects on teeth.

3. Pregnant women hawthorn promotes blood circulation to dissipate blood stasis and has the effect of contracting uterus. Eating hawthorn in pregnant women can easily lead to slippery tires.