1. Hawthorn helps digestion
Hawthorn contains a variety of organic acids and vitamin C, which can improve the activity of pepsin, increase the secretion of digestive enzymes and promote the decomposition and digestion of protein.
2. Hawthorn health stomach
Lipase contained in hawthorn can promote the digestion of fatty foods, promote the secretion of gastric juice and the increase of enzymes in the body, stimulate appetite and help digestion, especially the role of digestion and stagnation. The stomach has good digestive function and better absorption. Many digestive AIDS contain hawthorn ingredients.
3. Hawthorn fights cancer
Hawthorn contains a compound called vitexin, which has anti-cancer effect. Both nitrosamines and aflatoxins can induce the occurrence or aggravation of cancer, and vitexin in hawthorn can not only block the synthesis of nitrosamines, but also inhibit the carcinogenesis of aflatoxins.
4. Hawthorn expectorant and antiasthmatic
The phlogiston contained in hawthorn can dilate trachea, promote the movement of tracheal cilia, eliminate phlegm and relieve asthma, and is often used to treat tracheitis.
5. Hawthorn is sterilized and anti-inflammatory.
Both burnt hawthorn and fresh hawthorn have strong inhibitory effects on dysentery, and can obviously inhibit Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus B, Escherichia coli, Proteus, Bacillus anthracis, Bacillus diphtheria, Bacillus typhi and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. , suitable for intestinal infection.
5. Hawthorn is sterilized and anti-inflammatory.
Both burnt hawthorn and fresh hawthorn have strong inhibitory effects on dysentery, and can obviously inhibit Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus B, Escherichia coli, Proteus, Bacillus anthracis, Bacillus diphtheria, Bacillus typhi and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. , suitable for intestinal infection.
6. Hawthorn relieves dysmenorrhea
Hawthorn can treat female dysmenorrhea and irregular menstruation. Chinese medicine believes that hawthorn has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and it is a good dietotherapy for dysmenorrhea of blood stasis type. Patients with blood stasis dysmenorrhea often have abdominal pain during menstrual period 1-2 days or before menstruation 1-2 days. When menstrual blood is discharged smoothly, the pain will be relieved or disappeared.
The specific method is: 1000g fresh hawthorn with intact core, after cleaning, add appropriate amount of water, cook with slow fire until the hawthorn is cooked, then add 250g brown sugar and cook for10 minute until it becomes a thin paste.
7. Hawthorn protects cardiovascular system
There is a flavonoid in hawthorn, which can effectively prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases, dilate blood vessels, improve heart activity, increase coronary blood flow, lower cholesterol, soften blood vessels, and calm the nerves.
8. Precautions for eating hawthorn
Although hawthorn is good, it is not suitable for pregnant women, because hawthorn will stimulate uterine contraction, and carelessness may lead to abortion; Children in the period of tooth replacement should not be greedy for hawthorn slices and hawthorn cakes, which is not good for tooth growth;
It is not advisable to cook hawthorn in an iron pot, because the acidic substances in hawthorn will generate low-priced iron compounds with iron, which is not good for the health.
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, especially people with weak gastrointestinal function should be more cautious. The doctor suggested that hawthorn should be cooked before eating. Or made into candied haws, canned hawthorn, homemade fruit, fried red fruits, hawthorn radish, sweet and sour hawthorn, hawthorn enzyme, etc.
Practice of Hawthorn Enzyme in Enzyme Barrel
1, prepare a bucket of sugar, hawthorn, purified water and yeast enzyme.
Sugar: 750g (1.5kg)
Hawthorn:1250g (2.5kg)
Purified water: 6 liters (12kg)
2. Wash the hawthorn (seeded and sliced).
3. Melt sugar with pure water.
4. Put the chopped hawthorn and the opened white sugar into an enzyme bucket, add purified water to 6.5 liters (marked on the bucket) and stir evenly.
5. Stir once every morning and evening, and after 3 to 7 days of successful fermentation, the barreled bottle can be produced.
A good enzyme should be like this:
It has a strong fruity aroma and some sour taste, and has no peculiar smell;
The fruit hanging from the hair does not change color, and the color is still bright;
The taste is a little sour, and it tastes better in a short time, but there is still a little sugar. It will smell of wine after a while, and then it will be sour. Personally, I think it is better to send more!