Similar foods include hawthorn cakes and hawthorn slices. Appetizing and invigorating the spleen, many parents encouraged their children to eat in the past. Peony bark is sweet and sour, which is helpful for digestion, especially suitable for children. Peony bark can also promote the secretion of gastric juice and help digestion, which is a commonly used digestive medicine in clinic.
Peony bark contains many vitamins, tartaric acid, citric acid, maslinic acid, malic acid and so on. It also contains brass, lactone, sugar, protein, fat and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus and iron. The lipase contained in it can promote the digestion of fatty foods.
Promote the secretion of gastric juice and increase the function of enzymes in the stomach. Chinese medicine believes that hawthorn has the effects of eliminating food stagnation, astringing and stopping dysentery, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Indications are food stagnation, chest tightness, hernia, blood stasis and amenorrhea. Crataegus pinnatifida contains triterpenoids and brass, which has obvious effects of dilating blood vessels and lowering blood pressure, strengthening heart muscle, resisting arrhythmia and regulating blood lipid and cholesterol content.