How to eat hawthorn and its nutritional benefits

Hawthorn, also known as "mountain red" and "rouge fruit", has high nutritional and medicinal value. In addition to being eaten fresh, hawthorn can be made into hawthorn slices, fruit jelly, hawthorn cake, red jam, preserved fruit, hawthorn wine, etc. Hawthorn slices and hawthorn fruit jelly are the most common and popular varieties.

Hawthorn nutritional benefits:

Hawthorn tablets contain a variety of vitamins, tartaric acid, citric acid, hawthorn acid, malic acid, etc., as well as brass, lactones, sugars, proteins, fats, and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, and iron. The lipase contained in them can promote the digestion of fatty foods. It can promote the secretion of gastric juice and increase the enzymes in the stomach. Chinese medicine believes that hawthorn has the effects of eliminating stagnation, astringing and stopping diarrhea, and promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. It is mainly used to treat food stagnation, chest and diaphragm fullness, hernia, blood stasis, and amenorrhea. Hawthorn contains medicinal ingredients such as terpenes and brass, which have significant vasodilating and antihypertensive effects, and have the functions of strengthening the myocardium, resisting arrhythmia, and regulating blood lipids and cholesterol levels.

How to eat hawthorn

Modern medicine has proven that hawthorn contains citric acid, malic acid, ascorbic acid, enzymes, proteins, and carbohydrates, which can lower blood pressure and promote gastrointestinal digestion. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that hawthorn can strengthen the spleen and eliminate stagnation, is beneficial for weight loss, and can assist in the treatment of secondary obesity.

1. Hawthorn Soup

Ingredients: 500g hawthorn, 100g sugar. Preparation: Wash the hawthorn with water, remove the stems and seeds, boil in water, add sugar when the hawthorn is cooked, and drink the soup.

2. Hawthorn tea

Ingredients: 500g hawthorn, 200g dried lotus leaf, 200g coix seed, 100g licorice. Preparation: Grind the above ingredients into fine powder, divide into 10 packets, take one packet per day and brew with boiling water, drink as tea, and the tea should be light.

3. Hawthorn and Chrysanthemum Drink

Ingredients: 10g each of hawthorn, honeysuckle and chrysanthemum. Preparation: Crush the hawthorn, put it into a cup with honeysuckle and chrysanthemum and drink it as tea. This is the daily amount.

Modern medicine has proven that hawthorn contains citric acid, malic acid, ascorbic acid, enzymes, proteins, and carbohydrates, which can lower blood pressure and promote gastrointestinal digestion. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that hawthorn can strengthen the spleen and eliminate stagnation, is beneficial for weight loss, and can assist in the treatment of secondary obesity.

4. Hawthorn and orange peel drink

Ingredients: 20g each of raw hawthorn, orange peel, lotus leaf, 10g of raw coix seed. Preparation: Grind the above ingredients into fine powder, add to a thermos bottle with boiling water, drink it in one day. Valid for three months.

5. Hawthorn melon peel drink

Ingredients: 20g hawthorn, 30g wax gourd peel, 10g each of Shouwu and Sophora japonica. Preparation: Boil the above ingredients together in a pot for 20 minutes, filter the juice and drink.

6. Bodybuilding and fat-burning tea

Ingredients: 20g of hawthorn, 7g each of oriental rhizome, radish seed, malt, tea, patchouli, red soybean, Yunfuling, cassia seed, tangerine peel, Liushenqu, and Prunella vulgaris. Preparation method: Put the above ingredients into a casserole, add water and boil, filter the juice and drink it, which is the daily amount.

7. Double Root Tea

Ingredients: 15g each of tea root, hawthorn and reed root. Preparation method: Boil the above ingredients together for 20 minutes, filter the juice and drink it

8. Hawthorn jerky

Ingredients: Hawthorn, lean pork

practice:

1. Wash the pork and remove impurities from the hawthorn. Slice the ginger and cut the green onion into sections.

2. Put half of the hawthorn into the pot, add water and bring to a boil, then put in the pork and cook until it is 60% cooked, remove from the pot, let it cool, cut into long strips, mix well with seasonings, and marinate for 1 hour to remove moisture.

3. Heat the wok to 70% and add the meat strips. When they turn slightly yellow, scoop them out with a slotted spoon. Pour out the oil and add the other half of the hawthorns. Fry them briefly and then pour the meat strips back into the wok. Stir fry repeatedly. When serving, drizzle with sesame oil, sprinkle with MSG and sugar and mix well.

9. Hawthorn and walnut tea

150g walnuts (walnuts), appropriate amount of crystal sugar. Medicine: 50g hawthorn.

practice

Shell and mash walnuts, add rock sugar, hawthorn and 15 bowls of water to make syrup, bottle it and use when needed.

illustrate

(1) This soup is suitable for those with kidney yin deficiency and lung heat, but is not effective for those with cough due to excess heat.

(2) There are many family members, and some elderly people always cough in summer. Most of them are caused by this disease. Therefore, you can make a bottle for prevention and treatment.

10. Hawthorn blood pressure lowering soup

Basic characteristics: nourishing yin and suppressing yang, digesting food and eliminating stagnation, and lowering blood pressure. It is suitable for patients with liver yang hyperactivity type hypertension. The hawthorn in the recipe has a slow and lasting antihypertensive effect, can dilate peripheral blood vessels, regulate the function of the central nervous system, and has a significant effect on lowering blood lipids.

Materials needed: 15g hawthorn, 200g lean pork, 30g vegetable oil, 5g ginger, 10g green onion, 5g salt, 1000ml stock

Production:

1. Wash the hawthorns. If they are hawthorn fruits, pound them until soft and set aside.

2. Wash the lean pork, drain the blood, and cut into 4 cm long and 2 cm wide pieces. Crush the ginger and cut the green onion into sections.

3. Heat the pot over medium heat, add vegetable oil, and when it is half cooked, add ginger and scallion and stir-fry until fragrant. Add chicken broth, bring to a boil, then add pork, hawthorn, and salt. Simmer over low heat for 50 minutes.

How to eat: Take once a day, 30-50 grams of lean meat each time, and drink the soup as you like.

Efficacy: nourishes yin and suppresses yang, digests food and eliminates stagnation, and lowers blood pressure. It is suitable for patients with liver yang hyperactivity type hypertension. The hawthorn in the recipe has a slow and lasting antihypertensive effect, can dilate peripheral blood vessels, regulate the function of the central nervous system, and has a significant effect on lowering blood lipids.

Special tips:

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that hawthorn can only be used to digest but not to nourish the body. People with weak spleen and stomach should not eat too much. Healthy people should also eat hawthorn in moderation, especially children, who are in the period of tooth replacement. Long-term greed for hawthorn or hawthorn slices, hawthorn cakes, etc. is not good for tooth growth. In addition, hawthorn slices and fruit leather contain a lot of sugar. Children who eat too much will keep their blood sugar at a high level, without hunger, affecting their eating. Long-term and large-scale consumption will lead to malnutrition and anemia. Diabetic patients should not eat hawthorn, but can eat fresh hawthorn fruit appropriately. After eating, pay attention to rinse your mouth and brush your teeth in time to prevent damage to your teeth.