Hawthorn, also known as red fruit pestle, is a small deciduous tree in Rosaceae. The bark is dark gray, with light yellow lenticels, the branchlets are purple-brown, the leaves are alternate or clustered on short branches, the leaves are broadly oval, the flowers are white, and the corymbose inflorescences turn pink in the later stage. Its fruit is spherical, dark red after maturity, with light spots on the surface. The flowering period is May-June, and the fruiting period is 7-65438+1October. The fruit is sweet, sour and delicious, which can produce saliva to quench thirst and can also be used as medicine. The medicine belongs to spleen-stomach and liver meridian, and has the effects of promoting digestion, resolving food stagnation, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Hawthorn tree has strong adaptability, easy cultivation, neat crown, lush branches and leaves, few pests and diseases, delicious flowers and fruits, and is also a good ornamental tree species for greening in fields and gardens.
There are many ways to eat hawthorn. Usually, we will make candied haws, canned hawthorns, homemade fruit balls, fried red fruits, hawthorn radish, sweet and sour hawthorns and so on. Hawthorn can also be soaked in water. Hawthorn tea is mainly brewed from hawthorn and tea. Among them, hawthorn tastes sour, sweet and slightly warm. Enter spleen, stomach and liver meridians. Xiaoshi Jianwei, promoting qi circulation and removing blood stasis. It has the effects of dilating coronary artery, relaxing blood vessels, lowering blood lipid and blood pressure, and strengthening heart. Tea-bitter, sweet and cold. Clear the head, remove polydipsia, digestion, phlegm, diuresis and detoxification.
Hawthorn tea's efficacy: nourishing yin and stopping vomiting. Suitable for vomiting caused by deficiency of stomach yin: retching from time to time, vomiting a small amount of food mucus, recurrent attacks, hunger, dry mouth and throat, dry stool, red tongue, insufficient body fluid, etc. Hawthorn tea has the effects of invigorating spleen, regulating qi and stimulating appetite. It is suitable for patients with anorexia and dyspepsia caused by disharmony between spleen and stomach.