Hawthorn's nutritional value:
Hawthorn tablets contain multivitamins, tartaric acid, malic acid, citric acid, etc. It also contains brass, lactones, carbohydrates, proteins, fats, and calcium, phosphorus, iron and other minerals. Containing lipase can promote fat Digestion of foods. Promote the secretion of gastric juice and increase the function of stomach enzymes. Chinese medicine believes that Hawthorn has the effects of elimination of stagnation, convergence, and blood stasis. Indications dietary stagnation, chest fullness, hernia blood stasis amenorrhea embolism. Hawthorn contains medicinal ingredients such as hawthorn and brass, which has a remarkable dilation of blood vessels and antihypertensive effect, and it has the functions of strengthening the myocardium, anti-arrhythmia, regulating blood fat and cholesterol.
Hawthorn side effects:
Side effects: Hawthorn alcohol extracts were administered to male rats and mice by gavage, and they died within 30 minutes. The median lethal dose of mice was 18.0 mg/kg, and the median lethal dose of rats was 33.8 mg/kg. The median lethal dose of hawthorn total flavonoids in mice was 165 mg/kg. The median lethal dose of hawthorn polymerized flavanoids in mice injected intraperitoneally and subcutaneously was 130 mg/kg and 300 mg/kg, respectively.
Hawthorn has low toxicity, but its alcohol extract and aqua extract can cause poisoning after it is taken in large quantities. Rats and mice were given a large dose and they were sedated first, followed by lying down, respiratory depression, until paralysis and death.
Clinical application of this product, a large number of Hawthorn powder, tablets, there may be acid reflux, stomach pain, heartburn and other reactions.
For the crowd: most people can eat, people afraid of acid teeth can eat hawthorn cake and other hawthorn products.
Applicable amount: 3 to 4 at a time.
Tips: Hawthorn pickled, will become more acidic after heating. Hawthorn small foods on the market contain a lot of sugar and should be eaten less; try fresh fruit as much as possible. Hawthorn is not suitable for pregnant women to eat because hawthorn can stimulate uterine contractions and may induce miscarriage. Hawthorn to help digestion is only to promote the secretion of digestive juice, not through the function of the spleen and stomach to digest food, so the weak spleen and stomach are generally unfit for human consumption. Children are in the period of tooth replacement, prolonged gluttony of hawthorn or hawthorn slices, hawthorn cakes, which are detrimental to tooth growth. All people eating edible hawthorn must not be greedy, and they should pay attention to gargle in time to prevent harm to teeth. Hawthorn has a hypolipidemic effect, and those who have low blood lipids can affect their health by eating more hawthorn.