Hawthorn, also known as "Mountain Red" and "Rouge Fruit", is a small deciduous tree of Rosaceae, with dark gray bark, light yellow lenticels, purplish brown branchlets, simple leaves alternate or clustered on short branches, broad oval leaves, corymbose inflorescences, white flowers, pink fruits in the later stage, deep red fruits when ripe, and light spots on the surface. The flowering period is 5-6 months, and the fruiting period is 7- 10. Born in sunny hillside, edge of miscellaneous forest, shrub and vegetable forest between 400- 1000 meters above sea level. The fruit of Crataegus pinnatifida is sweet and sour, which can promote fluid production and quench thirst, and has high nutritional and medicinal value. Hawthorn can be made into hawthorn slices, cortex moutan, hawthorn cake, red jam, preserved fruit, hawthorn wine, etc.

Hawthorn slices and hawthorn bark are the most common and popular varieties. It can also be used as medicine, which belongs to spleen, stomach and liver meridians, and has the effects of promoting digestion, resolving food stagnation, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Nutritional efficacy: Hawthorn tablets contain vitamins, tartaric acid, citric acid, maslinic acid, malic acid, etc., and also contain flavonoids, lactones, sugars, protein, fats, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other minerals, and the lipolytic enzyme contained in them can promote the digestion of fatty foods. Promote the secretion of gastric juice and increase the functions of enzymes in the stomach. Chinese medicine believes that hawthorn has the effects of eliminating stagnation, astringing and stopping dysentery, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Indications are food stagnation, chest fullness, hernia, blood stasis and amenorrhea. Hawthorn contains triterpenes and flavonoids.

It has obvious effects of dilating blood vessels and lowering blood pressure, and has the functions of strengthening myocardium, resisting arrhythmia and regulating blood lipid and cholesterol content. The fittest is like this: most people can eat it. Children, the elderly and dyspepsia are especially suitable for eating. People with colds, indigestion, loss of appetite, calcium deficiency in children's cartilage and iron deficiency anemia can eat more hawthorn tablets. Although hawthorn has a lot of nutrition, it is better to have a moderate amount.

For example, people with loss of appetite can eat some hawthorn, which has the effects of appetizing, stimulating appetite and nourishing the stomach. You can eat a few hawthorn every day or soak it in hawthorn water. It tastes sour and sweet, and it is very delicious. Hawthorn also has the effect of relieving cough and eliminating phlegm. For example, some women with irregular menstruation and dysmenorrhea can be relieved by eating hawthorn appropriately, and the effect is very good. People with weak spleen and stomach should not eat hawthorn, and children should not eat hawthorn. Hawthorn contains certain sugar, which is good for children.