Precautions for eating hawthorn Who should not eat hawthorn

The medicinal value of hawthorn is believed to be well known to everyone, but if hawthorn is eaten improperly, it may cause health problems.

People are not very interested in hawthorn, except for some hawthorn products that can satisfy people's taste, such as candied haws and hawthorn cakes. Unprocessed raw hawthorn is almost a fruit that no one cares about.

Eat hawthorn on an empty stomach

Do you know that if you eat hawthorn and persimmon on an empty stomach, "stones" will grow in your stomach, because eating these two kinds of fruits on an empty stomach will cause a chemical reaction in the stomach, and in severe cases, "gastric stones" may grow, which is very harmful to your health.

There was a person who had severe stomach pain after eating hawthorn on an empty stomach, which made him almost unable to straighten his back. After examination at the hospital, it was found that the patient had a gray-green round gastric stone with a diameter of one centimeter in his stomach. And because this "stone" rubbed repeatedly in the stomach, it caused ulcers on the stomach wall. It can be seen that the condition is serious.

Gastrolithiasis

It is a common sudden stomach disease, and the symptoms are upper abdominal discomfort, fullness, dull pain, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, etc. Most of the gastric stones are plant-based, and are mostly caused by people eating a lot of persimmons, black dates or hawthorns on an empty stomach, because these fruits contain tannic acid with strong astringency, especially unripe fruits. Once it comes into contact with gastric acid, it will form tannic acid protein, and its water solubility will become very poor. After that, it will coagulate into blocks with pectin and plant fiber, forming gastric stones that threaten our health. We must realize the seriousness of this disease, and we must not eat hawthorn and fruits of the Diospyros family on an empty stomach, especially those that are not ripe.

Hawthorn snacks

Finally, I want to warn everyone that many hawthorn products on the market, such as hawthorn slices and hawthorn rolls, are very popular snacks for women and children. However, in order to cover up the sour taste, these hawthorn products generally add a lot of sugar, and the sugar content is very high. So be sure not to eat too much.