Hawthorn, also known as "Mountain Red" and "Rouge Fruit", is a small deciduous tree of Rosaceae, with dark gray bark, light yellow lenticels, purplish brown branchlets, simple leaves alternate or clustered on short branches, broad oval leaves, corymbose inflorescences, white flowers, pink fruits in the later stage, deep red fruits when ripe, and light spots on the surface. The flowering period is 5-6 months, and the fruiting period is 7- 10. Born in sunny hillside, edge of miscellaneous forest, shrub and vegetable forest between 400- 1000 meters above sea level. The fruit of Crataegus pinnatifida is sweet and sour, which can promote fluid production and quench thirst, and has high nutritional and medicinal value. Hawthorn can be made into hawthorn slices, cortex moutan, hawthorn cake, red jam, preserved fruit, hawthorn wine, etc. 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.

Nutritional efficacy: Hawthorn tablets contain vitamins, tartaric acid, citric acid, maslinic acid, malic acid, etc., as well as brass, lactone, sugar, protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other minerals, and the lipolytic enzyme contained in them can promote the digestion of fatty foods. Promote the secretion of gastric juice and increase the functions of enzymes in the stomach. Chinese medicine believes that hawthorn has the effects of eliminating stagnation, astringing and stopping dysentery, promoting blood circulation and removing stasis. Indications are food stagnation, chest fullness, hernia and blood stasis amenorrhea. Hawthorn contains triterpenes and brass, which has obvious vasodilating and antihypertensive effects, and has the functions of strengthening myocardium, anti-arrhythmia, and regulating blood lipid and cholesterol content.

The fittest is like this: most people can eat it. Children, the elderly and dyspepsia are especially suitable for eating. People with colds, indigestion, loss of appetite, calcium deficiency in children's cartilage and iron deficiency anemia can eat more hawthorn tablets.