When it comes to hawthorn, people can’t help but have a sour taste in their mouths. Hawthorn is the most common fruit in the folk, with affordable price and high nutritional value. Hawthorn can be eaten raw or made into preserved fruits. Hawthorn has the effect of invigorating the spleen and appetizing, and it can also promote food digestion, activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis. At the same time, it can also help to reduce blood pressure and blood lipids, fight arrhythmia, protect the heart, etc. Let’s learn more about the efficacy of hawthorn soaking in water.

What are the benefits of soaking hawthorn in water?

1. Appetizers and digestions

As long as the effect of hawthorn is mentioned, appetizers and digestions will appear in people’s brains . Eating hawthorn in moderation can stimulate the peristalsis of the gastrointestinal tract, relieve or improve the problem of food accumulation, and at the same time, it can also relax the bowels and laxatives.

2. Promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis

Hawthorn can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, help It softens blood vessels, and can also assist in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, help reduce blood lipids and blood pressure, and help relieve symptoms related to coronary heart disease.

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Hawthorn can play a certain astringent effect, achieve the effect of reducing phlegm and stopping vomiting, and at the same time, it can also relieve dysentery and abdominal pain, discharge excess water in the body, and reduce edema.

4. Adjuvant treatment of various diseases

Hawthorn can assist in the treatment of acute bacillary dysentery and Chilblains and pyelonephritis; hawthorn can also achieve the effect of relieving asthma and reducing phlegm, and can also be diuretic, used to prevent and treat cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and arteriosclerosis.

Can hawthorn be soaked in water for a long time?

After the above understanding, hawthorn soaking in water can bring many benefits, but it should not be drunk for a long time, so as not to stimulate the gastrointestinal tract and induce chronic gastrointestinal diseases. If you drink a lot of hawthorn water at one time, it will not only fail to achieve the purpose of losing weight and fat, but also may cause chronic gastrointestinal diseases, especially the secretion of gastric acid. Patients with gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer should drink less hawthorn soaked water. Otherwise, the related symptoms will worsen.

What are the precautions for soaking hawthorn in water?

1. Choose good quality hawthorn

Hawthorn can be divided into dry and fresh, dried hawthorn The color may be dull, so when we buy hawthorn, we can choose bright color, soft and delicious, and suitable for sweet and sour, to ensure that the skin of the hawthorn is less and smooth, the color is red and bright, the weight is large, and the shape of the fruit is neat and correct. Wait.

2. Rinse with running water

Hawthorn will be exposed to the sun and air-dried in an outdoor environment. In this case, the surface of the hawthorn will be attached with dust, bug corpses and other microorganisms, so after buying this type of hawthorn, you should put it Add an appropriate amount of water and starch to the basin, soak it for a few minutes, then rinse it with running water, or clean it with a toothbrush, which can ensure the safety of diet to the greatest extent, and the hawthorn water produced is pure and delicious.

3. Control the amount

Many people use hawthorn to soak in water. Digestion and strengthening the spleen, although hawthorn water is good, it is not the more the better. If you boil too much hawthorn water at one time, it will dilute the nutritional value of hawthorn, so drink 1~2 times a day, try to control it within 25 grams. Don’t be greedy.

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Adding too much water can dilute the ingredients in hawthorn, which greatly reduces the health care effect; adding too little water, the top is too strong, usually 8~10 pieces of hawthorn with 400ml of water will do. In addition, try to arrange hawthorn water to drink 30 minutes after meals, which can promote food digestion.

5. After the hawthorn turns white, it cannot be drunk again

After the hawthorn has been soaked for many times , the color will gradually turn white, and the nutrients in it will be almost consumed. In this case, new hawthorn slices should be replaced.

Message from the doctor

It is worth reminding that hawthorn Water should not be drunk on an empty stomach, especially those with peptic ulcers and gastric acid secretion.In addition, children who are in the period of teeth replacement, the first three months of pregnancy, diabetic patients and those with weak spleen and stomach should eat less or not eat hawthorn, so as to avoid unexpected harm. In addition, people who take drugs due to disease factors should consult a doctor before drinking hawthorn water, so as not to weaken or enhance the efficacy of the drug; people who are recovering from a serious illness should not drink hawthorn water, because hawthorn has the effect of consuming gas.

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