The role and efficacy of hawthorn and the nutrition of hawthorn

How many of you know the functions and effects of hawthorn? For those who don’t know, please read the following introduction.

The role and efficacy of hawthorn

Hawthorn is sweet and sour, slightly warm. It enters the spleen, stomach, and liver meridians. Functions and indications: It can eliminate food stagnation, dissipate blood stasis, and expel tapeworms. It can treat meat stagnation, all kinds of masses, phlegm and fluid, fullness, acid regurgitation, diarrhea, intestinal wind, low back pain, hernia, postpartum occipital pain, lochia retention, and milk and food stagnation in children. It can help digestion and invigorate the stomach, and promote qi and dissipate blood stasis. It is used for meat stagnation, gastric stagnation, diarrhea and abdominal pain, blood stasis amenorrhea, postpartum stasis, heart and abdomen pain, hernia pain, and hyperlipidemia. ①Tao Hongjing: "Boil the juice to wash lacquer sores." ②"Tang Materia Medica": "The juice is taken for good health, and it can be used to wash itchy sores on the head and body." ③"Compendium of Materia Medica": "It can treat dysentery and back pain." ④"Lu Yan Materia Medica": "It can help digestion." ⑤"Daily Materia Medica": "It can help digestion, relieve qi stagnation, strengthen the stomach and widen the diaphragm, and eliminate blood stasis and gas lumps." ⑥"Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": "It can help digestion, relieve qi; it can treat acid reflux and lumps." ⑦"Bencao Mengquan" : "It can relieve qi stagnation and treat hernia."⑧ Ning Yuan's "Food Mirror Materia Medica": "It can dissolve blood clots, gas clots, and activate blood circulation."⑨ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It can dissolve food, eliminate meat accumulation, treat all kinds of lumps, phlegm and fluid, fullness and acid regurgitation, and stagnant blood and pain."⑩ "New Materia Medica": "It can treat spleen deficiency, dampness and heat, eliminate food accumulation, and promote urination."⑾ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It can be applied to frostbite." Usage and Dosage: For internal use: decoct in water, 2 to 4 qian; or make into pills or powder. For external use: decoct in water for washing or mashing for application. Dos and Don'ts: People with weak spleen and stomach should take it with caution. ① "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Eating too much raw food will make people irritable and hungry, and will damage teeth. It is especially not suitable for people with tooth decay." ② "Ben Cao Jing Shu": "For those with spleen and stomach deficiency and stagnation, it should be used together with tonic medicine, but it should not be overused." ③ "De Pei Materia Medica": "Qi deficiency leads to loose stools and spleen deficiency leads to loss of appetite. Those who take ginseng should avoid it." ④ "Sui Xi Ju Diet": "Eating too much will consume qi, damage teeth, and make people hungry easily. It should be avoided on an empty stomach, for weak people, or after a weak disease." Prescription: ① Treat all kinds of food stagnation: 4 liang of hawthorn, 4 liang of white atractylodes, 2 liang of Shenqu. Grind the above into powder, steam it into cake pills, and take 70 pills with white soup. ("Dan Xi Xin Fa") ② Treat indigestion of meat: 4 liang of hawthorn meat, boil it in water and drink its juice. ("Jianbian Dan Fang") ③ Treat abdominal pain caused by stagnation: decoct hawthorn alone and drink the soup. (《Fangmai Zhengzong》)④ Treat dysentery with both red and white: stir-fry and grind hawthorn meat into powder, regardless of the amount, take one or two coins each time, mix with honey for red dysentery, mix with red and white sugar for white dysentery, mix red and white, half honey and half sugar, mix well, adjust with white soup, take on an empty stomach. (《Yichao Leibian》)⑤ Treat intestinal wind: burn the jujube and its core into ash, adjust with rice drink. (《Bai Yi Xuan Fang》)⑥ Treat waist pain and leg pain in the elderly: divide the tangerine peel and deer antler (roasted) into equal parts. Grind into powder, make honey pills as big as sycamore, take 100 pills each time, twice a day. (《Gangmu》)⑦ Treat lower abdominal pain due to cold and dampness, swelling and pain of the external kidney: fennel and persimmon hawthorn. Grind into fine powder, take one or two coins each time, adjust with salt and wine, take hot on an empty stomach. (《Bai Yi Xuan Fang》)⑧ Treat postpartum women with persistent lochia, abdominal pain, or pain in the child's pillow: smash and decoct 100 hawthorns, add a little sugar, take warm on an empty stomach. (Zhu Zhenheng)

Clinical Application of Hawthorn

① Treat tapeworm disease with 2 jin of fresh hawthorn (half a jin of dried hawthorn, reduce for children), wash and remove the core, start snacking at 3 pm, finish eating at 10 pm, and fast for dinner. The next morning, add 2 liang of betel nut to water and boil it until it becomes 1 cup, take it all at once, and rest in bed. When you feel like defecating, try to hold on for a while before defecating, and you can expel the complete tapeworm. In winter, you should sit on a warm water toilet to defecate to avoid the worm body shrinking when it is cold and unable to be expelled completely. Observed 40 cases, all effective. ② Treat acute bacillary dysentery with 20% hawthorn decoction and sugar to correct the taste, take 200 ml each time (reduce for children), 3 times a day, 7 to 10 days as a course of treatment. Treated 24 cases, all effective. Another 2 liang of hawthorn decoction was used to treat 30 cases of mild and moderate bacillary dysentery, and all but 3 cases were cured or improved. Or use 1 liang of raw hawthorn slices, add 500 ml of water and boil for 5 minutes, take it in 2 doses (reduced for children), 4 to 6 days as a course of treatment, and it is also effective. ③ For lowering serum cholesterol, use 1 liang of hawthorn and 2 liang of holly daily, decoct it in 2 doses. Observed 20 cases, the average serum cholesterol before treatment was 253.2 mg%, and after treatment it dropped to 207 mg%, an average of 46.2 mg per case, and the difference was very significant after statistical processing. Among the 20 cases, 11 cases had serum cholesterol dropped below 200 mg%, an average of 62.9 mg per case. It is believed that hawthorn plays a major role, because the effect of holly in lowering serum cholesterol is quite inconsistent in various places, and it is difficult to confirm it at present; and 4 cases in this group of cases had taken hawthorn alone without holly, and they also achieved results. The average serum cholesterol before taking the medicine was 259.7 mg%, and the review after taking the medicine for 6 weeks dropped to 214 mg%. In addition, taking an infusion of hawthorn flowers and leaves can lower blood pressure.

Hawthorn is rich in nutrients

It contains almost all the nutrients of fruits, especially high content of organic acids and vitamin C. Hawthorn is sweet and sour, suitable for raw food, and suitable for processing into hawthorn slices, hawthorn wine, etc. It also has high medicinal value. Hawthorn can strengthen the spleen and stomach, improve digestion, and treat diseases such as hypertension. Therefore, it has long been a favorite fruit of the Chinese people. Since the Yuan Dynasty, my country has used hawthorn as an important Chinese herbal medicine to eliminate food accumulation, disperse blood stasis, and expel tapeworms. Modern medicine has proved that hawthorn has the effects of lowering blood pressure and lipids, increasing coronary blood flow and resisting arrhythmia. The health care effect of hawthorn teabags is more recognized by people. Tea contains rich vitamins, multiple minerals, and tea polyphenols and other substances that are beneficial to health. Tea is hailed as the beverage of the 21st century. Hawthorn teabags combine the health care characteristics of foods such as hawthorn and tea, combine traditional Chinese medicine theory, use modern food technology, and are scientifically processed. This tea is sweet and sour, refreshing, fragrant, and rich in nutrition. It is a teabag beverage with unique flavor.