What are the functions and taboos of dried hawthorn? Hawthorn, as a kind of food we often eat in our daily life, has extremely high nutritional value. It has good conditioning and therapeutic effects and is very easy for our human body. Let me give you a detailed introduction.
Efficacy of dried hawthorn 1 Hawthorn, also known as Crataegus pinnatifida, has the effects of invigorating spleen, stimulating appetite, resolving food stagnation, promoting blood circulation and resolving phlegm. It has a good therapeutic effect on clinical diseases such as fullness of chest and diaphragm, hernia, blood stasis and amenorrhea, and also has the effects of lowering blood fat, lowering blood pressure, strengthening heart and resisting arrhythmia. In addition, it also has the effect of inhibiting bacteria, and has a good therapeutic effect on abdominal pain and diarrhea. It has good conditioning and therapeutic effects on hernia, blood stasis pain, arrhythmia and high cholesterol content. Hawthorn also has lipolytic enzyme effect, which is beneficial to digestion of fatty foods and improves the digestive ability of the stomach. Some people are not suitable for eating Hawthorn, including pregnant women with excessive gastric acid secretion, people with weak spleen and stomach after illness, and children are not suitable for eating Hawthorn for a long time when their teeth are developing. Otherwise, it will affect the health of teeth. Because hawthorn has the function of breaking blood and removing blood stasis, it will promote uterine contraction and easily cause miscarriage. Therefore, it is not suitable for pregnant women, but it can be eaten after childbirth, which is conducive to uterine recovery.
Efficacy and function of dried hawthorn
1, efficacy
Dried hawthorn is made of high-quality large-particle hawthorn fruit, which is sliced by hand and dried. The surface is brown to reddish brown, with fine wrinkles, the top is sunken, there are calyx remnants, and the base has fruit stalks or has fallen off. Hawthorn tree has strong adaptability, super flood resistance, easy cultivation, neat crown, lush branches and leaves, few pests and diseases, and delicious flowers and fruits, so it is also a good ornamental tree species for greening beside fields and gardens. Dried hawthorn has the effects of reducing blood fat, stimulating appetite, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. 1. Dried hawthorn has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, which can relieve local blood stasis and can be used to relieve traumatic injury. 2. Flavonoids, such as catechin, anthocyanin, hyperoside, rutin, quercetin, etc., are contained in the dried hawthorn for reducing blood fat, which can obviously reduce the levels of total cholesterol, triglyceride and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and increase the level of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, thus having a certain effect of reducing blood fat. 3. The appetizing dried hawthorn contains a variety of organic acids such as maslinic acid, which tastes sour and sweet, and contains lipolytic enzymes. After entering the stomach, it can enhance the role of enzymes, promote meat digestion, help cholesterol conversion, and also benefit bile and promote gastric juice secretion.
2. Nutritional value
Dried hawthorn contains flavonoids, triterpenoid saponins (ursolic acid, oleanolic acid, maslinic acid, etc.), fatty acids, chlorogenic acid, caffeic acid, vitamin C and various trace elements. Dried hawthorn contains high calories, including carotene, calcium, carbohydrates, pectin, etc., which are beneficial to human body. The pectin content in dried hawthorn is the highest among all fruits. Pectin not only has the function of radiation protection, but also has good adsorption and antibacterial properties, which can remove intestinal bacteria and toxins and bind water, thus helping to relieve diarrhea. Dried hawthorn contains vitamin C, vitamin B, carotene and various organic acids. Oral administration can increase the secretion of digestive enzymes in the stomach, and the protease and fatty acid contained in it can promote the decomposition and digestion of meat.
3. Precautions
Not suitable for eating together
1. Pig liver Eating dried hawthorn and pig liver together may destroy vitamin C in human body and reduce their nutritional value. 2. Seafood foods are rich in calcium and protein, which will react with dried hawthorn and may cause nausea, vomiting, dizziness and other adverse symptoms. 3. Duck duck and dried hawthorn have a similar relationship. These two kinds of food belong to cold food, so they can't be eaten together, which may have a bad influence on the body after eating.
Suitability and taboo
Suitability: The dried hawthorn of patients with obesity, scurvy and viral hepatitis has the effects of reducing blood fat, stimulating appetite, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. The dried hawthorn is most suitable for those who are full and full after eating, especially those with indigestion of meat and upper abdominal pain. Middle-aged and elderly patients with heart weakness, hypertension, coronary heart disease, angina pectoris, hyperlipidemia and paroxysmal tachycardia can eat dried hawthorn; Women with overdue menstruation or postpartum abdominal pain due to blood stasis can eat dried hawthorn; In addition, it is also suitable for patients with obesity, scurvy, viral hepatitis, fatty liver, acute and chronic nephritis, tapeworm disease and intestinal infection.
Taboo: pregnant women, patients with physical weakness, spleen and stomach weakness, dental diseases, etc., patients with physical weakness or dental diseases and spleen and stomach weakness should not eat.
Children in tooth-changing period should not eat it. If children eat dried hawthorn for a long time, it will affect their tooth growth and have a negative impact.
Maternal and infant should avoid it
Pregnant women should be careful to eat.
Pregnant women should not eat dried hawthorn, which can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and has the effect of contracting uterine smooth muscle. Excessive eating of dried hawthorn by pregnant women has the risk of inducing abortion.
Infants can eat in moderation.
Children can eat dried hawthorn in moderation, which helps the baby to digest food, strengthen the spleen and stimulate appetite, especially those who eat meat, but it is not advisable to eat too much.
Tips
It is suggested that the daily consumption of dried hawthorn should not exceed 25 grams. In order to reduce blood fat and soften blood vessels, it must be eaten every day, preferably with cassia seed and antioxidant Polygonum multiflorum Thunb, and the effect is better. Dried hawthorn cannot be eaten on an empty stomach. Dried hawthorn contains a lot of organic acids, fruit acids, maslinic acid, citric acid, etc. Eating it on an empty stomach will make stomach acid soar and cause adverse stimulation to gastric mucosa.
Chinese medicine dried hawthorn can be mixed with medicinal materials, such as rose, honey, dried tangerine peel, jujube, lotus leaf, cassia seed, chrysanthemum, medlar, etc., and each matched medicinal material can be matched with hawthorn to better serve human health, and can be adjusted and treated for related diseases and symptoms of human body. Soaking hawthorn and lotus leaves in water can reduce blood fat and blood pressure, strengthen the spleen and clear the mind. It is a good choice for preventing and treating obesity and adjuvant treatment of hypertension and arteriosclerosis. Hawthorn can also be soaked in water with honey, which is also very effective in relieving constipation and treating abdominal distension and indigestion. It must be remembered that hawthorn can't soak in water with ginseng.
The effect of dried hawthorn 2 Every autumn, when a large number of hawthorns are ripe, people will pick fresh hawthorns and slice them and sun them into dried hawthorns. The sun-dried hawthorn cake can be used as medicine or directly soaked in water. Today, I will focus on the benefits of soaking it in water, so that everyone can know more about the efficacy of soaking hawthorn in water.
Effect of soaking hawthorn in water
1, prevention of cardiovascular diseases
Hawthorn dried fruit is rich in flavonoids, which can be absorbed and utilized as soon as possible when people soak it in water. They can improve the elasticity of blood vessels, clean up cholesterol accumulated in blood vessels, purify blood, promote blood circulation and keep human cardiovascular health.
2. Promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis
After being used as medicine, dried hawthorn has an important effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and it can also play an important role in promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis by soaking it in water at ordinary times. When women suffer from dysmenorrhea due to blood stasis, they can directly drink dried hawthorn in water, which can quickly alleviate the symptoms of dysmenorrhea. In addition, when people have other blood stasis diseases, drinking dried hawthorn in water can also improve the symptoms.
3. Prevent cancer
Sticking to soaking hawthorn in water at ordinary times can prevent cancer, because the vitexin contained in this food is a natural anticancer component, which can inhibit the generation of carcinogenic substances such as ammonium nitrite and aflatoxin in human body, and also prevent the human body from becoming cancerous. Drinking hawthorn in water at ordinary times can effectively prevent cancer, while drinking hawthorn in water for cancer patients can prevent the spread of cancer to a certain extent.
4. Reduce fat and lose weight
There are some lipolytic enzymes in dried hawthorn, which can accelerate the decomposition of fat in the human body, and the fruit acid it contains can promote the secretion of gastric acid. Usually people use it to soak in water to improve the digestive ability of the stomach and prevent fat from accumulating in the human body, and also accelerate the decomposition and metabolism of excess fat in the human body, which can play an important role in preventing hyperlipidemia and slimming.
5. Promote the recovery of uterus.
Crataegus pinnatifida has contractive effect on uterus, has the effect of promoting birth when pregnant women are in labor, and can promote postpartum uterus recovery.
6. Anti-aging
Flavonoids, vitamin C, carotene and other substances contained in hawthorn can block and reduce the generation of free radicals, enhance the body's immunity, and have anti-aging and anti-cancer effects.
7. Treat diarrhea
Hawthorn contains ingredients for relieving asthma and resolving phlegm, inhibiting bacteria and treating abdominal pain and diarrhea.