This small red fruit is used for both medicine and food
The effect of hawthorn fruit in promoting blood circulation and removing stasis has been explained by many senior Chinese medicine practitioners, such as “Compendium of Materia Medica” thinks: Hawthorn fruit can enter the stomach to eliminate food stagnation, disperse blood… It can be used as a diet match, strengthen the spleen and stomach, promote Qi, and eliminate congestion.
Another example is the “Shenxi Lu of the Heart of Medicine”: Hawthorn fruit, which is based on sweet medicine, dissolves congestion without hurting new blood, opens stagnant qi without hurting qi, and its nature is particularly calm.
You can drink it with hawthorn soaked in water, and it has a very good effect. Today, I will share two hawthorn drinks with you.
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Hawthorn lipid-lowering tea
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Recipe:30 grams each of hawthorn, cassia seeds, malt, 5 grams of tea leaves, 6 grams of lotus leaves gram.
practice :Add hawthorn, cassia seeds and malt to the pot and cook for 30 minutes, then add lotus leaves and tea leaves and cook for 10 minutes.
Function : Malt can digest food and induce stagnation and lower blood sugar. This tea is suitable for the “three high” people with high blood lipids, blood pressure and blood sugar. It also has a certain improvement effect on the elderly with short sleep time and poor quality.
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Hawthorn Goji Berry
practice : Slice hawthorn into thin slices, put them together with wolfberry in a thermos cup, and brew in boiling water for half an hour.
Function : Lycium barbarum can improve memory loss, dizziness, weak waist and knees caused by liver and kidney deficiency in the elderly, and also has certain curative effects on vision loss, cataract, dizziness and diabetes, especially suitable for It is used to supplement and nourish yin for the elderly with vision loss.
Hawthorn is good, but two types of people should not eat more
It should be noted that many pregnant women experience early pregnancy symptoms. Often eat sweet and sour hawthorn. However, hawthorn may induce miscarriage, so pregnant women should not eat more hawthorn.
In addition, people with stomach problems, especially hyperacidity Many, gastritis, gastric ulcer, reflux gastritis, reflux esophagitis patients, it is best not to eat hawthorn on an empty stomach. The amount of hawthorn eaten per day is appropriate to 25 grams.