Hawthorn drupe is hard with thin pulp and slightly sour taste. Fruit can be eaten raw or made into preserved fruit cakes, dried and used as medicine. It is a unique medicinal and fruit tree species in China. It has the functions of reducing blood fat, lowering blood pressure, strengthening heart and resisting arrhythmia. It is also a good medicine for invigorating spleen, stimulating appetite, promoting digestion, promoting blood circulation and resolving phlegm, and has a good effect on chest diaphragm, 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.
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The benefits of hawthorn
1, expired effect
Hawthorn tea and hawthorn water can destroy qi activity. Eating too much will consume gas and affect the health of pregnant women and fetal development. Although hawthorn breaks gas, people with severe qi deficiency generally don't need it, but the power of breaking gas is very weak. Chinese medicine uses it mainly to help digestion and strengthen the stomach, of course, to eliminate the meat you eat.
For some elderly people, because of their slow metabolism in daily life, it is easy to accumulate some metabolic wastes in blood vessels, which may lead to some cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in the long run.
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Eating hawthorn products often can enhance appetite, improve sleep, keep calcium in bones and blood constant, prevent atherosclerosis and prolong life, so hawthorn is regarded as "longevity food". 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;
3. hawthorn tea
Sour, sweet, slightly warm. Entering spleen, stomach and liver meridians, promoting digestion, invigorating stomach, promoting qi circulation and removing blood stasis, has the functions of dilating coronary artery, relaxing blood vessels, reducing blood lipid and strengthening heart. Hawthorn can also promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and drinking tea with hawthorn can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, which also has certain effect on treating dysmenorrhea.
Hawthorn can also prevent cardiovascular diseases, because it contains a substance called flavonoids, which can play a very good role in preventing and treating cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
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