Why can hawthorn lower blood pressure?
Hawthorn can help lower blood pressure. Hawthorn is mild in nature and sweet in taste. It has the effects of invigorating stomach, promoting digestion, promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, regulating menstruation and relieving pain. It is mainly used for treating food stagnation, epigastric pain, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, postpartum abdominal pain and lochia. Hawthorn brass and triterpenoid dilute acid contained in hawthorn can lower blood pressure. Triterpenoid dilute acid in hawthorn can enhance heart beat ability and increase coronary blood flow, so hawthorn can help lower blood pressure.
How to eat hawthorn well
Hawthorn can be eaten raw or cooked. According to the traditional Chinese medicine method, it can be divided into raw, fried, charred and charred. Hawthorn with different methods has different effects. Generally, raw hawthorn and fried hawthorn are used to lose weight, because they have the function of reducing blood fat and slimming, and can also promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis; However, cooked hawthorn and burnt hawthorn can enhance digestive function and are mostly used to eliminate meat stagnation; Processed hawthorn charcoal is mostly used to treat dysentery and enteritis.
Hawthorn can be soaked in water with chrysanthemum.
Soaking hawthorn and chrysanthemum in water is also good for your health. When brewing, you can prepare 20 grams of hawthorn and 15 grams of chrysanthemum, stir them with clear water first, then brew them with boiling water, and then drink them for future generations. This hawthorn chrysanthemum tea brewed with hawthorn and chrysanthemum can clear away heat and detoxify, reduce blood fat and strengthen the spleen and promote digestion.
Side effects of raw hawthorn
Hawthorn is a kind of fruit that helps digestion, so many people will eat a lot of hawthorn after meals to promote digestion. In fact, this is not good. So, what are the disadvantages of eating too much raw hawthorn?
Hawthorn can't be eaten on an empty stomach, because it 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.
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.