Hawthorn and beef are suitable. When they are eaten together, hawthorn can make beef stew worse and digest and absorb more. Therefore, when you stew beef, you can add a few hawthorn grains for better effect. Hawthorn, sour, sweet and warm in nature, has the effects of promoting digestion, invigorating stomach, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, especially for digesting greasy food and accumulating food. Beef, sweet and flat in nature, can replenish spleen and stomach, benefit blood and strengthen bones and muscles. Moreover, eating beef and hawthorn together does not have any adverse side effects. On the contrary, it can strengthen the stomach, promote digestion and get rid of greasy food.

Beef is rich in protein, and its amino acid composition is closer to the human body's needs than pork, which can improve the body's disease resistance. It is especially suitable for people who are recuperating after surgery and illness, such as supplementing blood loss and repairing tissues. Eating beef in cold winter can warm the stomach and is a good tonic for this season. Beef has the effects of invigorating the middle warmer, invigorating qi, nourishing the spleen and stomach, strengthening bones and muscles, resolving phlegm and calming wind, quenching thirst and stopping saliva, and is suitable for people who have hidden middle warmer, short breath, weak body, weak bones and muscles, anemia and long illness, and yellow and dizzy face.

Hawthorn is rich in nutrition, which can prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases and has a cardiotonic effect. Can stimulate appetite and help digestion. It has the function of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Eating hawthorn products for the elderly can enhance appetite, improve sleep, keep the calcium in bone and blood constant and prevent atherosclerosis. However, hawthorn should not be taken with ginseng and other tonics at the same time, and it should not be eaten too much at one time. People with weak spleen and stomach should eat carefully. Hawthorn has the function of destroying qi. Eating too much will consume qi, which will affect the health of pregnant women and the development of the fetus. At the same time, hawthorn can also strengthen the contraction of uterus, which can cause premature delivery or abortion.