Hawthorn is called "fruit medicine." Because it tastes sour and slightly sweet, it has the effect of supplementing stomach acid, so it has a very good effect in terms of digestion and digestion. Hawthorn not only can eliminate food, but still blindly gynecological medicine. Because the Hawthorn red main blood, it can treat women with postpartum hemorrhoids, menstruation and other blood stasis syndrome, and Chinese medicine practitioners believe that the role of hawthorn phlegm and blood does not hurt the characteristics of new blood. Therefore, as long as the congestion-related gynecological diseases can be used to assist the treatment of hawthorn.
Hawthorn contains sugar, protein, fat, vitamin C, carotene, starch, malic acid, citric acid, calcium and iron and other substances, with hypolipidemic, blood pressure, cardiac and anti-arrhythmic effects. Vitexin, a flavonoid compound in hawthorn, is a kind of drug with strong anti-cancer effect. Hawthorn extract has certain inhibitory effect on the growth, proliferation and infiltration and metastasis of cancer cells.
Hawthorn effect:
Digestion product, scattered blood, drive maggots.
Treatment of meat plot, disease, phlegm, phlegm, fullness, swallowing acid, diarrhea, intestinal wind, low back pain, hernia after childbirth pain, lochia endless, infantile food stagnation. Digestive stomach, qi and gas. For meat stagnation, gastric ulcer, fullness, abdominal pain, diarrhea, blood stasis, postpartum obstruction, sympathetic pain, hernia pain, hyperlipidemia.
The role of hawthorn:
1. Anti-cancer, anti-cancer research found in recent years, hawthorn contains a compound called vitexin, which has anti-cancer effects.
Nitrosamines and aflatoxins can induce the occurrence or aggravation of digestive tract cancer. Experimental studies have shown that Hawthorn extract can not only block the synthesis of nitrosamines, but also inhibit the carcinogenic effects of aflatoxin. Therefore, people at high risk of digestive tract cancer should eat hawthorn regularly. For those who already have cancer, if there is indigestion, hawthorn and rice can be accompanied by porridge for consumption. This will not only help digestion, but also help to fight cancer. effect.
2, strong heart, blood fat, lowering blood pressure clinical studies confirmed that Hawthorn can significantly reduce serum cholesterol and triglycerides, effective prevention and treatment of atherosclerosis; Hawthorn can also enhance myocardial contractility, increase cardiac output, expansion of coronary blood vessels Increase coronary blood flow, reduce myocardial oxygen consumption, etc. play a strong heart and prevent angina. In addition, the total flavonoids in hawthorn have the effect of dilating blood vessels and sustaining decompression. Therefore, patients with hyperlipidemia, hypertension, and coronary heart disease may take 15 to 30 grams of Hawthorn per day, and decoct it on behalf of the tea.
3, treatment of dysmenorrhea, irregular menstruation Chinese medicine practitioners believe that Hawthorn has the role of promoting blood circulation, blood stasis type dysmenorrhea patients diet products. Blood stasis type dysmenorrhea patients usually manifested as abdominal pain from the first to the second day or the first 1 to 2 days before the menstrual blood discharge, the pain gradually reduced or disappeared, and the menstrual blood dark, accompanied by blood clots. The patient may take a complete amount of fresh kernels with 1,000 grams of fresh hawthorn. After washing, add the appropriate amount of water. Cook over low heat and cook until the cornfields are overcooked. Add 250 grams of brown sugar and cook for 10 minutes until it becomes a thin paste. Take the first 3 to 5 days to start taking, daily morning and evening, each meal Hawthorn mud 30 ml until 3 days after the stop taking, this is a course of treatment, and even served 3 courses can be effective. This method is also suitable for menstrual irregularities, TCM syndrome is blood stasis.