The effect of hawthorn is one, appetizing and digestion. The esterase contained in hawthorn has the function of promoting the digestion of fatty foods, and hawthorn also has the effect of promoting the secretion of gastric juice and increasing the digestive ability of the stomach.
Second, prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Flavonoids in hawthorn can dilate blood vessels and prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. The components contained in hawthorn can also reduce blood lipid and blood pressure to some extent, and prevent arteriosclerosis and thrombosis caused by hyperlipidemia and hypertension. Hawthorn can also promote myocardial contractility and relieve angina pectoris.
Third, bacteriostasis. Hawthorn has a strong inhibitory effect on Shigella and Staphylococcus aureus, and can improve gastrointestinal diseases such as diarrhea caused by the above flora.
Precautions for Hawthorn Pregnant women are forbidden to take Hawthorn. Hawthorn has the effects of promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis and stimulating uterine contraction, which may endanger the health of pregnant women and fetuses. Hawthorn is rich in fruit acid, and it is easy for people with weak spleen and stomach to stimulate gastric mucosa and aggravate symptoms. People with low blood lipid and low blood pressure are also not suitable to take hawthorn, because hawthorn has a certain effect of lowering blood lipid and blood pressure.
Taboos for eating hawthorn: 1. People with excessive gastric acid secretion such as gastric ulcer should not eat hawthorn. Because hawthorn has the function of promoting gastric acid secretion, people with gastric ulcer and gastroesophageal reflux eat hawthorn, which may aggravate symptoms such as stomach pain and heartburn.
2. It should not be used on an empty stomach. Because hawthorn contains a variety of organic acids and tannins, organic acids can combine with heavy metals or tannins with proteins in gastric acid to generate water-insoluble polymers, which are deposited in the stomach to form lumps, that is, stomach stones.
3. People who are weak and lack of qi-deficiency, it is best not to take hawthorn, because hawthorn has no nourishing effect, mainly to eliminate pathogenic factors and eliminate food stagnation, blood stasis and phlegm-dampness.