Every Hawsberry Has Medicinal Value
Hawthorn, sour-sweet and slightly warm. Traditional Chinese medicine holds that hawthorn strengthens digestion, aids in lowering blood pressure and lipids, making it an excellent choice for health preservation and dietary therapy. Long-term use can prevent and treat the following conditions:
1. Digestive disorders: Use 200g hawthorn, boil in water to extract juice, drink as tea. Effective in preventing indigestion caused by excessive meat consumption.
2. Coronary heart disease: Hawthorn’s flavonoids can dilate coronary arteries and increase blood flow. Therefore, patients with coronary heart disease (including angina) should regularly drink hawthorn syrup with sugar.
3. Hypertension, hyperlipidemia, obesity, fatty liver: Patients should consume 5–10 hawthorns daily, consistently for a period, to achieve blood pressure and lipid-lowering, and lipid regulation effects.
4. Constipation: Use 50g fresh hawthorn, 150g walnut kernels, 25g sugar, boil slightly, drink as tea, eat hawthorn and walnuts. Offers nourishment and laxative effects, useful for dry mouth and constipation due to fluid deficiency.
5. Gynecological disorders: Use 30g hawthorn, add appropriate sugar, boil into juice, consume daily for 7 days. Helps remove blood stasis and invigorate blood, used to prevent menstrual irregularities and lower abdominal heaviness in women.
It is worth noting that although hawthorn is beneficial, pregnant women and those with peptic ulcers should avoid excessive intake, and it is generally not advisable to eat on an empty stomach.