Can. This soup functions to warm menstruation, warm the uterus and relieve pain. It is mainly used for treating dysmenorrhea, cold pain in the abdomen during or after menstruation, pain that decreases with heat, low menstrual flow, dull menstrual blood, and fear of cold. Yin deficiency with heat manifested as heavy menstruation and fever in the hands and feet.

Consumption method: make tea with 1-2 fresh hawthorn berries several times a day.

Suitable for people: suitable for patients with stagnant meat and food, stagnant milk and food for children, stomach and epigastric abdominal pain, blood stasis and menstrual closure, postpartum stasis and obstruction, stabbing pain in heart and abdomen, hernia pain, hyperlipidemia, people with loss of appetite, and weight loss people.

Hawthorn tea contraindications and side effects:

Should not be taken at the same time with ginseng and other tonic medicines, should not be consumed too much at a time, and people with weak spleen and stomach should be cautious of eating. Hawthorn in hawthorn tea has the effect of breaking qi, eating too much will deplete qi, affecting the health of pregnant women and the development of the fetus.

Hawthorn contains a lot of fruit acid, has the effect of astringency and stimulation of gastric mucous membrane, the elderly spleen and stomach function is weak, children's spleen and stomach function development is not yet complete.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - ginger, pepper and red date soup

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