What are the effects of scorched hawthorn?

What are the effects of scorched hawthorn? In fact, the effects of scorched hawthorn are not much different from those of hawthorn. Let me introduce them to you below.

What are the effects of scorched hawthorn?

Hawthorn is a typical medicinal fruit. Today I will tell you about the effects of scorched hawthorn. You may not know what scorched hawthorn means. Scorched hawthorn is actually a processing method of hawthorn. Everyone knows that different processing methods have different effects and functions. Let’s take a look at the effects of scorched hawthorn.

The role of charred hawthorn

Scorched hawthorn is mainly used to treat autumn diarrhea. Raw hawthorn has the medicinal value of eliminating stagnation and appetizing, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, preventing heatstroke and lowering blood pressure. Scorched hawthorn: Put the clean hawthorn slices into the pot and fry until the surface is burnt brown and the inside is yellowish brown. This product has a burnt brown surface and yellowish brown inside. It has a fresh fragrance and tastes sour and slightly astringent.

Scorched hawthorn is sour, sweet, and slightly warm. It is good for digestion and elimination of accumulation in the spleen, stomach, and liver meridians. Scorched hawthorn not only reduces the sour taste, but also enhances the bitter taste, making it good for digestion and diarrhea.

Medicinal effects Hawthorn has important medicinal value. Since ancient times, it has been a good medicine for strengthening the spleen and appetite, digesting food and removing stagnation, and promoting blood circulation and removing phlegm. At present, there are more than 50 Chinese medicine formulas using hawthorn as raw materials, such as the common appetizer and spleen-strengthening medicines "Hawthorn Pills" and "Jiao Sanxian".

Hawthorn fruit is used as medicine. It is slightly warm in nature, sour and sweet in taste, and enters the spleen, stomach, and liver meridians. It has the functions of digestion, stomachic, blood circulation, blood stasis, astringency, and diarrhea. It is effective for phlegm and fluid accumulation, fullness and acid regurgitation, diarrhea, intestinal wind, low back pain, hernia, postpartum occipital pain, lochia retention, and milk and food stagnation in children.

The role of hawthorn

1. Cancer prevention and anti-cancer

Recent studies have found that hawthorn contains a compound called vitexin, which has anti-cancer effects.

Nitrosamines and aflatoxin can induce the occurrence or aggravation of digestive tract cancer, and experimental studies have shown that hawthorn extract can not only block the synthesis of nitrosamines, but also inhibit the carcinogenic effect of aflatoxin. Therefore, people at high risk of digestive tract cancer should eat hawthorn regularly. For patients who already have cancer, if they have indigestion, they can also cook porridge with hawthorn and rice, which can not only help digestion, but also play an auxiliary anti-cancer role.

2. Strengthen the heart, lower blood lipids and blood pressure

Clinical studies have confirmed that hawthorn can significantly reduce serum cholesterol and triglycerides, and effectively prevent and treat atherosclerosis; hawthorn can also strengthen the heart and prevent angina pectoris by enhancing myocardial contractility, increasing cardiac output, dilating coronary arteries, increasing coronary blood flow, and reducing myocardial oxygen consumption. In addition, the total flavonoids in hawthorn have the effects of dilating blood vessels and lasting blood pressure reduction. Therefore, patients with hyperlipidemia, hypertension and coronary heart disease can take 15 to 30 grams of raw hawthorn every day, decoct in water and drink instead of tea.

3. Treat dysmenorrhea and irregular menstruation

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that hawthorn has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and is a good food therapy for patients with blood stasis type dysmenorrhea. Patients with blood stasis type dysmenorrhea often experience lower abdominal pain on the 1st or 2nd day of menstruation or 1 or 2 days before menstruation. When menstrual blood flows smoothly, the pain gradually eases or disappears, and the menstrual blood is dark in color and accompanied by blood clots.

Patients can take 1000g of fresh hawthorn with core, wash it, add appropriate amount of water, simmer until the hawthorn is cooked, add 250g of brown sugar, and simmer for 10 minutes until it becomes a thin paste. Start taking it 3 to 5 days before menstruation, eat 30ml of hawthorn paste every morning and evening, and stop taking it 3 days after menstruation. This is one course of treatment, and it will be effective after taking 3 courses in a row. This method is also suitable for those with irregular menstruation and blood stasis according to TCM syndrome differentiation.