The function, efficacy and taboo of hawthorn. Many friends should have eaten Sugar-Coated Berry, which is sour and sweet, especially delicious. Sugar-Coated Berry is made of hawthorn fruit, and the hawthorn slices we ate as children are also delicious. So what are the benefits of eating hawthorn? Can anyone eat it? Let's learn about the function, efficacy and taboo of hawthorn together.
The function, efficacy and taboo of hawthorn 1 Hawthorn is also called hawthorn, red fruit and rouge fruit. Hawthorn has high nutritional value and medical value;
Hawthorn diet, eliminating meat stagnation, etc. Where the spleen and stomach are weak, the food is indigestible, and the chest and abdomen are sore and swollen, two or three mouthfuls are excellent after meals. Old people often eat hawthorn products, which can enhance appetite, improve sleep, keep the calcium in bones and blood constant, and prevent atherosclerosis. maslinic acid also has a cardiotonic effect and is beneficial to senile heart disease. Therefore, hawthorn is regarded as "longevity food".
Nutritional efficacy of hawthorn
1, Hawthorn contains a lot of vitamin C and trace elements, which can dilate blood vessels, lower blood pressure and blood sugar, improve and promote cholesterol excretion, reduce blood lipid and prevent hyperlipidemia.
2, hawthorn can stimulate appetite and promote digestion, and the lipase contained in hawthorn can also promote the digestion of fat.
3. Flavonoids and carotene contained in hawthorn can block and reduce the generation of free radicals, enhance the body's immunity, delay aging and prevent cancer.
4. Hawthorn has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, which is helpful to relieve local congestion and has an auxiliary effect on traumatic injury; ,
5. Hawthorn has contractive effect on uterus, which has the effect of promoting birth when pregnant women are in labor, and can promote postpartum uterine recovery;
6. Hawthorn products can enhance appetite, improve sleep and keep calcium in bones and blood constant.
Eating hawthorn regularly for the elderly with heart and vascular problems can dilate blood vessels, lower blood sugar and blood pressure, and prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases and senile heart diseases.
What are the advantages of eating hawthorn cakes often?
Hawthorn slices are processed hawthorn. Hawthorn slices contain vitamins, maslinic acid, tartaric acid, citric acid, malic acid, etc., as well as flavonoids, lactones, sugars, protein, fats and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus and iron. Lipase contained in hawthorn slices can promote the digestion of fatty foods. Promote the secretion of gastric juice and increase the functions of enzymes in the stomach.
The efficacy of hawthorn
Hawthorn can prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases, and has the functions of dilating blood vessels, increasing coronary blood flow, improving heart activity, exciting central nervous system, lowering blood pressure and cholesterol, softening blood vessels, diuresis and sedation.
Effect of hawthorn on promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis
Hawthorn has the effects of eliminating stagnation, astringing and stopping dysentery, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Indications are food stagnation, fullness of chest, diaphragm and spleen, hernia and blood stasis amenorrhea. Hawthorn contains triterpenes, flavonoids and other pharmaceutical ingredients, which have obvious effects of dilating blood vessels and lowering blood pressure, strengthening myocardium, resisting arrhythmia and regulating blood lipid and cholesterol content.
Hawthorn recipe for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis
Ingredients: Hawthorn+Guiyuan+Old Rock Sugar+Water.
Method: add hawthorn and water to Guiyuan, boil for 3 minutes, add rock sugar and cook for 5 minutes, and drink directly.
Efficacy: promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis
The efficacy of hawthorn Side effects and taboos of hawthorn
1, hawthorn tastes sour, and it will become more sour after heating. You should brush your teeth immediately after eating directly, otherwise it is not good for your teeth. People with sour teeth can eat hawthorn products.
2. Pregnant women should avoid eating hawthorn to avoid inducing abortion, those with weak spleen and stomach, those with low blood sugar and children should not eat hawthorn.
3. Crataegus pinnatifida can't be eaten on an empty stomach. Crataegus pinnatifida contains a lot of organic acids, fruit acids, maslinic acid, citric acid, etc. If eaten on an empty stomach, the gastric acid will increase sharply, which will cause adverse stimulation to the gastric mucosa and make the stomach full and pantothenic. If eaten on an empty stomach, it will enhance hunger and aggravate the original stomachache.
4. Tannic acid contained in raw hawthorn is easy to form gastrolith when combined with gastric acid, which is difficult to digest. If the gastrolith cannot be digested for a long time, it will cause gastric ulcer, gastric bleeding and even gastric perforation. Therefore, raw hawthorn should be eaten as little as possible.
5. People with weak gastrointestinal function should be more cautious. The doctor suggested that it is best to cook hawthorn before eating.
The function, efficacy and taboo of hawthorn 2 1, lowering blood pressure
According to experiments, hawthorn can enhance the contractility of myocardium, which can increase the blood output of the heart. Injecting hawthorn extract into the body can play a very obvious role in lowering blood pressure, mainly because hawthorn can dilate peripheral blood vessels. In addition, hawthorn can also reduce blood lipids and cholesterol, and the elderly can eat some hawthorn to protect their health.
2. beauty beauty
The color of hawthorn is very conspicuous bright red, which looks very festive. The content of vitamin C in hawthorn is very rich, which can delay aging and beauty beauty. Eating hawthorn regularly can supplement vitamin C, which can make the skin firmer and more delicate. In addition, hawthorn can also eliminate the fat in the body, which has the effect of reducing fat and slimming.
3. Promote digestion
Hawthorn contains a lot of acidic substances, such as maslinic acid, malic acid, citric acid, etc. Eating hawthorn can increase the acidity of gastric juice, which can improve the activity of pepsin, stimulate gastric mucosa, increase the secretion of gastric juice and promote digestion. Hawthorn can regulate the stomach and excite smooth muscle.
Taboos for eating hawthorn
Hawthorn can promote digestion and stimulate the stomach. However, it can't be eaten in large quantities, and it can't be eaten on an empty stomach. This is because there is a lot of tannic acid in hawthorn. These substances will produce tannic acid protein together with gastric acid. If the tannic acid protein in the stomach accumulates for a long time, there will be gastric ulcer, gastric bleeding and other diseases.
The function, efficacy and taboo of hawthorn 3. Hawthorn has high medicinal value. According to pharmacological analysis, hawthorn contains three kinds of drugs, lipolytic enzyme, flavonoids and glucoside, which can enhance the function of regulating myocardium, promote cholesterol conversion and reduce fat preparation. It is also a good fruit for dilating trachea, promoting tracheal cilia movement, resolving phlegm and relieving asthma.
Efficacy classification: Xiaoshi drugs; Blood stasis removing medicine
Family and genus classification: Rosaceae.
Alias names: pestle, mumei, pestle, mouscha, sheep pestle, red claw, Tang pestle, red jujube, mountain red fruit, wild jujube, snot ball, persimmon fruit, Mao pestle, monkey pestle, etc.
Sexual taste: sour and sweet; Slight temperature; Non-toxic
Meridian tropism: spleen meridian; Stomach meridian; Liver meridian; Lung meridian
Function: Xiaoshi product; Remove stagnation and blood stasis.
Indications: food stagnation, abdominal distension and pain, diarrhea and dysentery, dysmenorrhea due to blood stasis, amenorrhea and postpartum abdominal pain; The lochia is endless.
Administration and dosage: oral administration: decoction, 3-10g; Or into the pill, scattered. External use: appropriate amount, decocted with water or pounded.
Ecological environment: Crataegus pinnatifida was born in stream, valley, forest edge or bushes at an altitude of 100- 1500m.
Acute toxicity test: 100% hawthorn injection (water-extracted and alcohol-precipitated) has an LD50 of 1.042ml/kg for mice iv.
Processing method
1, hawthorn: clean impurities, sieve and remove stones. Stir-fried hawthorn: take the picked hawthorn, stir-fry it in a pot with slow fire until it turns pale yellow outside, take it out and let it cool.
2, burnt hawthorn: take the picked hawthorn, put it in the pot and fry it with strong fire until the outside is brown and the inside is brown, spray water, take it out and dry it.
3. Hawthorn Charcoal: Take the picked hawthorn, stir-fry it in the pot with strong fire until it is brown outside, but it must be preserved, spray clean water, take it out and dry it.
4, "Outline": After the frost in September, take the ripe hawthorn, remove the core and expose it to dry. Or steamed, peeled and pitted, pounded into cakes, and dried daily.
Edible taboo
Some people should not eat more hawthorn. There is a saying in Chinese medicine: "Hawthorn only needs no supplement", and people with weak spleen and stomach should not eat more. If children indulge in hawthorn or hawthorn slices and hawthorn cakes for a long time, it will be bad for tooth growth.
When pregnant women have early pregnancy reaction, sweet and sour hawthorn is often their favorite. In fact, pregnant women should not eat more hawthorn, especially dried hawthorn, which has a strong blood circulation effect, because hawthorn has the effect of contracting uterine smooth muscle, which may induce abortion.
Hawthorn can promote the secretion of gastric acid, so it should not be eaten on an empty stomach, and fresh hawthorn contains a lot of tannic acid. If eaten too much, tannic acid will combine with minerals in the human body to form stomach stones. The acidic substances in hawthorn are corrosive to teeth, so you should pay attention to gargling and brushing your teeth in time after eating, especially for children who are in the period of tooth replacement.