Introduction: Hawthorn slices, also known as hawthorn cakes, are made of high-quality hawthorn as the main material, and are refined through multiple processes such as material selection, cleaning, steaming, pulping, molding, drying and packaging. The most basic shape of hawthorn slices is hawthorn slices. Derivatives include hawthorn strips, sandwich hawthorn slices, fruit hawthorn slices, iron hawthorn, cortex moutan, snow hawthorn and so on. Hawthorn slices and hawthorn bark are the most common and popular varieties. It can also be used as medicine, which belongs to spleen, stomach and liver meridians, and has the effects of promoting digestion, resolving food stagnation, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis.
Usually, when we are free, everyone will buy some hawthorn slices to eat, which can stimulate the appetite and is good for the health. So do you know what else hawthorn tablets can do? Besides eating directly, what are the ways to eat hawthorn slices? Let's talk about this topic with you and discuss the nutritional value of hawthorn slices together!
Hawthorn, also known as hawthorn, appeared in our life a long time ago. Hawthorn can not only be eaten directly, but also be dried and processed into hawthorn slices, which is also the first choice for people at home to soak in water!
The heat of hawthorn slices
Many people like to drink hawthorn slices in water, but they are worried that hawthorn slices have higher calories, so they stay away from it. I will give you a detailed introduction below. We measure it here by 100 grams of hawthorn slices. It contains 95 calories, 2.0g of crude fiber, 0.2g of fat, 0.8g of protein and 22. 1 g of carbohydrate. It can be seen that the calorie of hawthorn is relatively low. Hawthorn can? Eliminate meat products? Modern research has also proved that hawthorn has a significant effect on digestion, especially on digestion. Eating hawthorn can not only promote digestion, but also reduce weight and blood fat.
Medicinal value of hawthorn tablets
Hawthorn tablets are low in calories, and also have important medicinal value. Since ancient times, hawthorn tablets have become a good medicine for digestion, spleen and appetite, blood circulation and phlegm. Hawthorn tablets are rich in sugar, protein, fat, carotene, vitamin C, starch, citric acid, malic acid, calcium and iron, and have the functions of lowering blood pressure, reducing blood lipid, strengthening heart and resisting arrhythmia. Vitexin, a flavonoid in hawthorn, is a kind of drug with strong anticancer effect. Hawthorn extract has certain inhibitory effect on the growth, proliferation, infiltration and metastasis of cancer cells in vivo.
Hawthorn also has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, which helps to relieve local congestion and has an auxiliary effect on traumatic injury. Crataegus pinnatifida has contractive effect on uterus, has the effect of promoting pregnancy during labor, and can promote the recovery of postpartum uterus. Flavonoids, vitamin C, carotene and other substances contained in hawthorn can block and reduce the generation of free radicals, enhance human immunity and delay aging. In addition to the above, hawthorn also has the functions of relieving asthma and resolving phlegm, inhibiting bacteria, and treating abdominal pain and diarrhea.
Efficacy and function of hawthorn tablets
1, cancer prevention, cancer prevention
In recent years, it has been found that hawthorn contains a compound called vitexin, which has anti-cancer and anticancer effects. Both nitrosamines and aflatoxin can induce the occurrence or aggravation of digestive tract cancer, and related experimental studies show that hawthorn extract can not only block the synthesis of nitrosamines, but also effectively inhibit the carcinogenesis of aflatoxin. Therefore, people at high risk of digestive tract cancer should often eat hawthorn slices, and soaking hawthorn slices in water is of great help to patients who already have cancer. If you have indigestion, you can also cook porridge with hawthorn and rice, which can not only help digestion, but also help fight cancer.
2, strengthen the heart, reduce blood fat and blood pressure.
Clinical studies have confirmed that soaking hawthorn slices in water can significantly reduce serum cholesterol and triglycerides, and can effectively prevent and treat atherosclerosis; Hawthorn tablets can also strengthen the heart and prevent angina pectoris by enhancing myocardial contractility, increasing cardiac output, dilating coronary blood vessels, increasing coronary blood flow and reducing myocardial oxygen consumption. In addition, the total flavonoids contained in hawthorn tablets also have the effects of dilating blood vessels and lasting blood pressure reduction. Therefore, patients with hyperlipidemia, hypertension and coronary heart disease can take raw hawthorn tablets15 ~ 30 grams a day and decoct them in water instead of drinking tea.
3. Treat dysmenorrhea and irregular menstruation
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that hawthorn has the function of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and it is a good diet for dysmenorrhea with blood stasis. Dysmenorrhea of blood stasis type often manifests as abdominal pain on the first1~ 2 days or before menstruation1~ 2 days. When menstrual blood is discharged smoothly, the pain will gradually decrease or disappear, and the menstrual blood is dark with blood clots.
At this time, people suffering from dysmenorrhea can take fresh hawthorn1000g with intact core, wash it, add appropriate amount of water, cook it with low fire until the hawthorn is cooked thoroughly, then add 250g of brown sugar, and cook it for10min until it becomes a thin paste. Take it 3 ~ 5 days before menstruation, eat 30 ml of hawthorn paste every morning and evening, and stop taking it until 3 days after menstruation. This is 1 course of treatment, and it will take effect after three courses of treatment. This method is also suitable for patients with irregular menstruation and blood stasis according to TCM syndrome differentiation.
How to eat hawthorn
Hawthorn tofu
material
Hawthorn cake150g, a piece of tofu (about 450g), peanut oil, chopped green onion, Jiang Mo, garlic, salt, white sugar, vinegar, soy sauce and a proper amount of wet starch.
method of work
1. Cut the hawthorn cake into small pieces.
2. Tofu is boiled in boiling water and then cut into small pieces.
3. Use salt, sugar, vinegar, soy sauce and wet starch to make juice for later use.
4. Set the pot on fire and put oil to heat it.
5. Add hawthorn cake and fry until the surface is slightly burnt. Remove and drain the oil.
6. Add the tofu pieces and fry them until they are slightly yellow.
Conclusion: the nutritional value and efficacy of hawthorn slices are so much to introduce here. I believe everyone will have a certain understanding of hawthorn and hawthorn slices after reading them. Sun-dried hawthorn slices and processed hawthorn slices are all hawthorn products, with similar effects, but different eating methods. When soaking in water, just take the dried hawthorn slices directly!
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