Dried hawthorn is made of high-quality large-particle fruits with a spherical shape and a diameter of 0.8 ~ 1.4 cm, and is made by hand slicing and drying. The surface is brown to reddish brown, with fine wrinkles, the top is sunken, there are calyx residues, and the base has fruit stalks or has fallen off. Crataegus pinnatifida, born in valleys or mountain bushes, has strong adaptability, super flood resistance, easy cultivation, neat crown, lush foliage, few pests and diseases, and delicious flowers and fruits. It is also a good ornamental tree species for greening in fields and at home.
Hawthorn, also known as Crataegus pinnatifida, Red Fruit and Rouge Fruit, is a dry and mature fruit of Crataegus pinnatifida or Crataegus pinnatifida of Rosaceae, with hard texture, thin pulp, moderate sweet and sour taste and unique flavor. Hawthorn has high nutritional value and medicinal value. Old people often eat hawthorn products, which can enhance appetite, improve sleep, keep calcium in bones and blood constant and prevent atherosclerosis. Therefore, hawthorn is regarded as longevity food.
Eating hawthorn regularly can dilate blood vessels, lower blood sugar and blood pressure, and prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases and heart diseases in the elderly. Treating diseases with hawthorn fruit has a long history in China. Notes on Tang Herbal Medicine: Take juice to stop dysentery; Compendium of materia medica: hawthorn diet therapy, eliminating meat stagnation and so on. Anyone with weak spleen and stomach, indigestion, chest and abdomen pain and abdominal distension will eat two or three excellent after meals. Chinese medicine believes that hawthorn has the functions of promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Moreover, the physical and chemical research of modern medicine found that the medicinal value of hawthorn penetrated into the field of blood lipid more obviously.
It should be noted that hawthorn tastes sour and will become more sour after heating. Brush your teeth immediately after eating directly, otherwise it is not good for your teeth health. People with sour teeth can eat hawthorn products. Pregnant women should not eat hawthorn or drink dried hawthorn water to avoid inducing abortion. People with weak spleen and stomach, people with hypoglycemia and children should not eat hawthorn or drink dried hawthorn. Hawthorn can't be eaten on an empty stomach. Hawthorn contains a lot of organic acids, fruit acids, maslinic acid, citric acid and so on. If you eat on an empty stomach, your stomach acid will increase sharply, which will cause bad stimulation to the gastric mucosa and make your stomach full and pantothenic. If you eat on an empty stomach, it will enhance hunger and aggravate the original stomach pain. In addition, dry hawthorn soaked in water, for people with spleen and stomach deficiency, or stomach diseases, dental caries, peptic ulcers and taking nourishing drugs, can not drink dry hawthorn soaked in water. 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. Therefore, raw hawthorn should be eaten as little as possible, especially people with weak gastrointestinal function should be more cautious. The doctor suggested that hawthorn should be cooked before eating.