Introduction of hawthorn
Hawthorn, the name of traditional Chinese medicine, is the dried and mature fruit of Crataegus pinnatifida or Crataegus pinnatifida of Rosaceae. Harvest, slice and dry the fruit when it is ripe in autumn.
This product is a round piece with uneven shrinkage, diameter of 1~2.5cm and thickness of 0.2~0.4cm. The outer skin is red, with small gray spots. The pulp is dark yellow to light brown. There are 5 pale yellow fruit stones in the middle section, but most of them fall off and are hollow. Short and thin fruit stalks or calyx remnants can be seen on some pieces. The gas is slightly fragrant, sour and slightly sweet.
Hawthorn pictures
Hawthorn and its function
1, hawthorn can prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases, and has the functions of dilating blood vessels, increasing coronary blood flow, improving heart activity, exciting central nervous system, lowering blood pressure and cholesterol, softening blood vessels, diuresis and sedation.
2. Hawthorn contains ingredients for relieving asthma and resolving phlegm, inhibiting bacteria and treating abdominal pain and diarrhea.
3. maslinic acid also has cardiotonic effect, which is also beneficial to senile heart.
4. 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.
5, it can stimulate appetite and digestion, especially for eliminating meat stagnation, and hawthorn is used in many digestive drugs.
6. Hawthorn has contractive effect on uterus, which has the effect of promoting birth during labor and can promote postpartum uterus recovery.
7. Hawthorn has the function of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, which helps to relieve local congestion and has an auxiliary effect on traumatic injury.
Medicinal value of hawthorn
Digestion, stomach strengthening, qi circulation, blood stasis removing, turbidity removing and lipid lowering. Used for meat stagnation, epigastric fullness, diarrhea, abdominal pain, blood stasis, amenorrhea, postpartum blood stasis, stabbing pain in the heart, chest pain, hernia pain.
1, cure all food stagnation: hawthorn four Liang, Atractylodes macrocephala four Liang, medicated leaven two Liang. The top is the end, steamed cake pills, and the road is big, taking 70 pills and white soup. (Danxi Heart Method)
2, it is not necessary to cure meat: hawthorn meat is four or two, boiled and eaten, and its juice is drunk. ("Simple Unilateral")
3, cure the stagnation of abdominal pain: hawthorn blindly decoction. ("Authentic Fang Mai")
4, cure intestinal wind: Zizyphus jujuba and meat core burn ash, rice drink down. ("101 choices")
5, the treatment of low back pain and leg pain in the elderly: Tang Xunzi, velvet antler (baked) and other parts. For the end, the honey pill is big, and one hundred pills are taken each time, two times a day. （《》）
6, cure cold and damp abdominal pain, external kidney is too swollen and painful: fennel, persimmon hawthorn. The first grade is divided into fine powder, one or two yuan for each service, salt and wine, and hollow hot service. ("101 choices")
Processing method of hawthorn
1, clean hawthorn: remove impurities and fallen stones.
2, stir-fried hawthorn: take the net hawthorn, according to the stir-fried method (the stir-fried method without accessories is called the stir-fried method. ) Stir-fry until the color turns dark.
3, burnt hawthorn: take the net hawthorn, according to the stir-frying method (the stir-frying method without accessories is called the stir-frying method. ) fry until the surface is brown and the inside is yellow-brown.
How to eat hawthorn
1, hawthorn soup
Ingredients: 500 grams of hawthorn and 200 grams of sugar, which can be increased according to your own taste.
Practice: Wash the hawthorn with water, remove the pedicels and seeds and boil them in water. When they are cooked for 8 times, pour out the water and add water again, and add sugar. You can eat hawthorn after it is boiled and blossomed.
2. hawthorn tea
Ingredients: 500g of hawthorn, 200g of dried lotus leaf, 200g of coix seed, and 0/00g of licorice/kloc.
Practice: Grind the above herbs into fine powder and divide them into 10 packets. Take a packet of boiling water for brewing every day, instead of drinking tea, and the tea is weak.
3. Hawthorn Yinju Drink
Material: hawthorn, honeysuckle and chrysanthemum each10g.
Practice: Crataegus pinnatifida, Flos Lonicerae and Flos Chrysanthemi * * * are put in a cup to drink instead of tea, which is 1 day.
4, orange hawthorn porridge
Ingredients: japonica rice100g, two oranges, 30g hawthorn, sugar10g, cold water1500ml.
Practice: peel the orange, tear off the tendons, leave one by one, use a bamboo stick to remove the orange core and cut it into small triangular pieces. After the hawthorn is washed, it is all in two, and the seeds are lost. Wash japonica rice, soak it in cold water, take it out and drain it. Add 1000 ml of cold water to the pot, add japonica rice, orange pieces and hawthorn pieces, boil with high heat, turn to low heat and boil into porridge, and finally add sugar to serve.
Effect of soaking hawthorn slices in water
There are many ways to use hawthorn, among which soaking in water is one of the common and simple methods. I recommend a cold drink of hawthorn soaked in water, that is, hawthorn gouqi tea. Its preparation method is: wash hawthorn, slice it, brew it with boiled water together with washed Lycium barbarum, and drink it in the morning and afternoon. The effect of this model is nourishing liver and kidney, promoting digestion and resolving food stagnation, and improving intelligence and eyesight. Suitable for vertigo and other symptoms. This product has the effects of nourishing brain and kidney, removing fat and lowering blood lipid, and is suitable for patients with cerebral arteriosclerosis and so on.
Can I eat hawthorn?
1, pregnant women are not allowed to eat hawthorn. Of course, the reason is that hawthorn is an acidic food. Its * * * on the uterus is quite large, which can * * * its contraction, which may cause abortion.
2, especially in the early stages of pregnancy, women must never touch hawthorn. Otherwise, the possibility of abortion is extremely high. Of course, if the fetus is stable, you can eat a little bit, and it is not recommended to eat more.
3. Even if you want to eat Sugar-Coated Berry in winter, remember that you can't eat it in the early stage of pregnancy. Even if you love eating again, you should avoid eating.
4. Other things made of hawthorn, although the content of hawthorn is not too high, it is still not recommended for you to eat. For example, hawthorn drinks, or canned hawthorn, etc.
5. Pregnant women should also remember that soaking hawthorn in water is not acceptable. It still has the acidity of hawthorn in it, even though it has weakened a lot.
Side effects of hawthorn
Taking hawthorn powder and tablets in large quantities may lead to acid regurgitation, stomachache, heartburn and other reactions. Hawthorn snacks in the market contain a lot of sugar, so we should eat less and try to eat fresh fruit.
Hawthorn in hawthorn tea 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.
Hawthorn contains a large amount of fruit acid, which has the function of astringing and * * * gastric mucosa. The spleen and stomach function of the elderly is weak, and the development of children's spleen and stomach function is not yet complete. Eating too much hawthorn will consume stomach gas, reduce digestive ability, and cause indigestion or emaciation. Therefore, it is not suitable for eating.
Hawthorn has the function of lowering blood lipid, and people with low blood lipid will affect their health if they eat more hawthorn.
People with gastric acid can secrete gastric acid, which makes the gastric acid increase rapidly and the concentration increase, which is easy to cause nausea and acid vomiting, and in severe cases, it can cause peptic ulcer.
People who are physically weak after illness need to increase nutrition in order to restore their vitality. Hawthorn not only consumes energy, but also accelerates digestion and excretion, which affects the absorption and utilization of beneficial substances.
Hawthorn in hawthorn tea contains sour sugars, which are strong corrosive agents, and can corrode the enamel of teeth, cause dental caries and aggravate dental diseases.
Hawthorn medical records
1, "Medical Experience in the West": Hawthorn, if it is supplemented with sweet medicine, will dissipate blood stasis without hurting new blood, and open depressed qi without hurting healthy qi, its nature is especially peaceful.
2, "Tang Materia Medica": the juice is mainly beneficial, shampooing and itching.
3, "Materia Medica": treating dysentery and backache.
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