1, which is helpful for digestion. Hawthorn dry contains many kinds of organic acids. After oral administration, it can enhance the acidity of gastric juice, improve pepsin activity and promote the digestion of protein. Hawthorn is dry and sour, which promotes the secretion of gastric juice from gastric mucosa. Dried hawthorn also contains lipase, which can promote the digestion of fat, and vitamin C, which can stimulate appetite, regulate gastrointestinal peristalsis, inhibit gastrointestinal smooth muscle in spastic state and excite smooth muscle in relaxed state.

2. It can reduce blood lipid and prevent atherosclerosis. Hawthorn flavonoids can significantly reduce the concentrations of serum total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and apolipoprotein B in experimental hyperlipidemia animals, and significantly increase the concentrations of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and apolipoprotein A, but have little effect on triglycerides. The hypolipidemic effect of dried hawthorn is to inhibit the synthesis of liver cholesterol and promote the intake of plasma cholesterol by liver. Hawthorn flavonoids can also reduce the risk of atherosclerosis.

3. It is the function of the cardiovascular system, which can resist myocardial ischemia, strengthen the heart, enhance myocardial contractility, increase cardiac output, lower blood pressure and resist oxidation. In addition, dried hawthorn also has antibacterial effect, which has strong antibacterial effect on Shigella, Proteus, Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus.