Hawthorn, also known as mountain fruit and mountain red, is a drupe fruit with thin pulp and sour and astringent taste, which can be used both as food and medicine. Generally, food can be divided into cold, hot, warm, cool and flat properties, while Chinese medicine believes that hawthorn tastes sour, sweet and slightly warm, and enters the spleen, stomach and liver meridians, which has the effect of promoting digestion, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Therefore, from its efficacy, hawthorn is neither cool nor hot, but a kind of warm fruit.
Whether hawthorn gets angry or decreases fire will neither get angry nor decrease fire.
Judging from the efficacy of hawthorn, it has no effect of clearing heat and reducing fire; Although hawthorn belongs to a kind of warm fruit, under normal circumstances, eating hawthorn in moderation will not lead to excessive internal heat.
However, if a large amount of hawthorn is eaten for a long time, it will cause too much sugar intake, which may aggravate the damp-heat of the spleen and stomach and cause the so-called symptoms of excessive internal heat, such as body heat, sweating, yellow and greasy tongue coating and so on.
3 hawthorn is acidic or alkaline alkaline food.
Although hawthorn tastes sour, the nature of the food is not determined by the taste, but by the nature of the products produced after digestion and metabolism by the human body. Hawthorn contains more metal ions, which are digested and metabolized by the human body to produce alkaline oxides with cations, so it can be seen that hawthorn is an alkaline food.
4 contraindications of hawthorn It is not advisable to eat more hawthorn to promote gastric juice secretion. If the human body eats too much hawthorn, it may lead to excessive gastric acid secretion, which may stimulate the stomach and cause nausea, sourness and other discomfort. It is generally recommended to eat 3-5 hawthorn at a time.
It is not suitable to eat on an empty stomach. In an empty stomach, the concentration of human gastric juice is relatively high. At this time, if you eat hawthorn again, it will aggravate the secretion of gastric acid, which will easily cause gastrointestinal discomfort.
People with excessive gastric acid secretion should not eat hawthorn, which contains a variety of acidic substances, which can promote gastric acid secretion. If people with excessive gastric acid secretion such as gastritis and gastric ulcer eat hawthorn, it may lead to aggravation of the disease, which is not conducive to recovery.
Pregnant women should pay more attention to eating pregnant women's diet carefully. Hawthorn has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. If pregnant women eat too much hawthorn, it will stimulate uterine contraction, which may cause fetal movement anxiety, and even lead to abortion in severe cases.
Children eat less hawthorn, which is rich in organic acids and sugars, and it has certain stimulating effect on enamel and tooth nerves, while children's teeth are not yet fully developed. If they eat too much hawthorn, it may affect their tooth development.