1. Friends who often eat meat, the application of hawthorn in Chinese medicine is mainly the role of digestion. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, if you eat too much flour, you can digest it with "malt", and if you eat too much rice, you can digest it with hawthorn. For friends who often overeat and eat meat, you might as well drink a little.
2. With the continuous improvement of medical level, postpartum lochia and abdominal pain are unbearable, but hawthorn is also used for postpartum blood stasis and pillow pain (postpartum abdominal pain is caused by abdominal congestion). Therefore, for female friends with this kind of situation, you can drink some dried hawthorn soaked in water, which will help alleviate and improve the symptoms.
3. Female friends with dysmenorrhea, especially blood stasis dysmenorrhea, hawthorn's role in promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and drinking hawthorn soaked in water also have a good effect on blood stasis dysmenorrhea.
4. Of course, friends with unclean sputum should also be identified. For unclean expectoration caused by weakness of spleen and stomach and food stagnation, soaking hawthorn in water is helpful to strengthen spleen and stomach, promote digestion and eliminate stagnation, and fundamentally improve. Spleen belongs to soil, lung belongs to gold, spleen and stomach are strong, and lung is naturally strong. Long-term unhealed expectoration will often get better by strengthening the spleen and stomach.
For friends with hyperlipidemia, hawthorn can help regulate blood lipids. Animal experiments show that hawthorn extract has a certain inhibitory effect on cholesterol synthase. Therefore, hawthorn still has a certain auxiliary therapeutic effect on lowering blood fat. For friends with hyperlipidemia, drinking hawthorn dry soaking water can be used as an auxiliary means to regulate blood lipids, but it cannot replace drugs.
To sum up, soaked hawthorn has many functions and is suitable for drinking on many occasions. But for friends with poor gastrointestinal tract, such as those with reflux esophagitis, gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer and excessive gastric acid secretion, be careful when drinking soaked hawthorn, and at the same time, be sure to avoid drinking soaked hawthorn on an empty stomach. Drinking hawthorn soaked in water on an empty stomach will further stimulate the gastric mucosa, leading to excessive gastric acid secretion and discomfort.