The main medicinal values are appetizing, promoting digestion, resolving stagnation, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, resolving phlegm and promoting qi circulation. Used for meat stagnation, abdominal distension, abdominal pain, phlegm retention, diarrhea, blood under intestinal wind, etc.

Crataegus pinnatifida, also known as Crataegus pinnatifida, Crataegus pinnatifida, Crataegus of Rosaceae, is a deciduous tree with a height of 6 meters.

It is distributed in Shandong, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, Hebei and other places. ?

Drupe fruit, with hard stone, thin pulp and slightly sour taste. Fruit can be eaten raw or made into preserved fruit cake, which can be used as medicine after being dried. It is a unique tree species for both medicine and fruit in China. It has the functions of reducing blood fat, blood pressure, strengthening heart, resisting arrhythmia, etc. It is also a good medicine for invigorating spleen, appetizing, resolving food stagnation, promoting blood circulation and resolving phlegm, and has a good curative 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 effect on inhibiting the growth, proliferation, infiltration and metastasis of cancer cells in vivo.

morphological character

plant

Deciduous trees with rough bark and dark gray or grayish brown; Spines are about 1-2 cm long, sometimes without spines; Branchlets are cylindrical, annual branches are purple-brown, hairless or nearly hairless, sparsely lenticels, and old branches are grayish brown; Winter buds are triangular-ovate, with blunt apex, hairless and purple.

leaf

Hawthorn leaves are broadly ovoid or triangular-ovoid, with a sparse rhomboid shape, 5 5- 10/0cm long and 4-7.5cm wide. The apex is short and tapered, and the base is truncated to a broad wedge shape. Usually, there are 3-5 pinnate deep lobes on each side, which are ovate-lanceolate or banded, with a short and tapered apex, sharp and sparse irregular double serrations on the edge, dark green and shiny on the top and along the veins on the bottom. Petiole 2-6 cm long, glabrous; Stipules are herbaceous, sickle-shaped, with serrated edges.