hawthorn is very familiar to everyone. The most basic raw material of ice sugar gourd we loved to eat when we were young is hawthorn. The sour hawthorn is wrapped with thick syrup, which is simply the delicious food in the world when we were young. Hawthorn is not only delicious, but also rich in vitamins and other nutrients. Regular consumption has a good health care effect on human health. Hawthorn has medicinal value comparable to drugs. What are the specific effects and functions of Hawthorn? This article will tell you the medicinal efficacy and value of seven comparable drugs of hawthorn, as well as daily eating methods.
Efficacy and function of Hawthorn
Hawthorn has the function of helping digestion, which is well known, but we don't know much about the efficacy of hawthorn. For example, hawthorn is contained in 1 / 3 of China's proprietary Chinese medicine. It can be seen that Hawthorn has very high medicinal value.
A hawthorn is better than thousands of medicines. Hawthorn is rich in vitamin C, which is 2.4 times that of lemon and 13 times that of apple. Rich in vitamin C can promote vascular toughness, improve microcirculation, whiten and freckle. Hawthorn is also rich in iron and can replenish blood.
Red hawthorn, sweet taste, better digestion function; Small Hawthorn has sour taste and better blood activating function.
1. Antihypertensive drugs
Hawthorn tea
Hawthorn is especially effective for borderline hypertension. Insist on making tea every day. Now it's best to have fresh ones. After this season, it's OK to use dry ones.
2. Lipid lowering 'drugs'
Have some Hawthorn porridge
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the formation of hyperlipidemia and atherosclerosis is caused by the imbalance of yin and Yang of the kidney due to the long-term consumption of Gao Liang thick taste and fat and sweet products, and the old-age weakness or congenital deficiency. Xiaobian suggested that people with high blood lipid might as well often drink Hawthorn porridge, which can strengthen the spleen and stomach, help digestion and reduce blood lipid.
Hawthorn porridge
Take 30 ~ 45g hawthorn (or 60g fresh Hawthorn), 100g japonica rice and an appropriate amount of granulated sugar. Fry the hawthorn, take the thick juice, remove the residue, cook it with the washed japonica rice, put sugar into the porridge when it is cooked, and boil it for 1-2 minutes. It can be used as dessert hot clothes.
3. Liver nourishing 'medicine' hawthorn tablets and hawthorn pills
Hawthorn is the first beneficial food with the effect of nourishing the liver and removing fat.
For 'fatty liver' or obese people, eating hawthorn, hawthorn tablets, hawthorn pills or drinking with hawthorn in water can eliminate food and fat, which is a good liver protection food.
When stewing meat, if hawthorn is added, it can make the soup not greasy, fresh and delicious, promote meat digestion and help transform cholesterol. Therefore, for people who feel full after eating meat or greasy things, adding Hawthorn to the meat can have the best of both worlds.
Hawthorn stew
You can wash 10 grams of hawthorn and put it directly into the soup, or fry 15 grams of Hawthorn in the soup first, remove the residue, and add it to the meat for stewing.
4. Low back pain 'medicine' take some Hawthorn mud
In fruits, the calcium content of hawthorn is only lower than that of lobular orange and lemon. Eating Hawthorn appropriately can avoid common physical discomfort in autumn and winter, such as cramps, low back pain and so on.
Hawthorn mud
Wash the fresh hawthorn and mash it into mud, which is more conducive to the absorption of calcium, and it is more convenient to match with other foods. You can not only add vegetables, but also make tea with hawthorn mud or add rice porridge as ingredients. They are good choices.
Hawthorn + calcium agent is the best partner. The calcium we eat will first react with gastric acid and then acidolysis into calcium ions. Therefore, while replenishing calcium, you can take vitamin C at the same time, or eat oranges and hawthorn. For those who lack gastric acid, it can significantly promote the absorption of calcium.
Some old people's teeth are afraid of acid. They can crush hawthorn and swallow it in warm water. In addition, don't forget that all calcium should be chewed into a paste before swallowing, or take calcium powder directly, so as to achieve a good absorption effect.
5. Weight loss' medicine 'fresh hawthorn or hawthorn powder
Acid substances in hawthorn the chlorogenic acid, caffeic acid and other acidic substances contained in Hawthorn can increase the acidic components in the body and increase the secretion of gastric juice in the body. In this way, it can promote the metabolic speed in the body and consume the excess fat components in the body, so as to achieve the purpose of good weight loss.
However, Xiaobian reminds that if you want to lose weight and get rid of your big stomach, you must not eat processed 'Hawthorn', such as hawthorn wrapped in icing. The amount must be well controlled. It should not exceed four at a time, otherwise it will digest too fast, eat more and get fatter.
Therefore, Xiaobian suggests that it is better to eat Hawthorn after dinner. Eating Hawthorn after dinner will have less stimulation to the stomach, especially fresh raw hawthorn. Although the weight loss effect is better, the stimulation is also greater. It can boil Hawthorn into water and make the acidity softer.
Hawthorn powder
Hawthorn 500g, dried lotus leaf 200g, coix seed 200g, licorice 100g. Grind the above flavors into fine powder and divide them into 10 packets. Take a packet of boiling water every day and drink instead of tea. The tea is light.
6. Beauty and skin care 'medicine' Hawthorn soaking in water
The content of vitamin C in fresh hawthorn is very rich, ranking fourth among the fruits often eaten, second only to Rosa roxburghii, fresh jujube and kiwi fruit, twice that of citrus.
Now many children will be blue and purple, and they don't hurt or itch. This is mostly the manifestation of vitamin C deficiency, and the fragility of capillaries is increased. This phenomenon, do not miss this season, soak some water with hawthorn.
Young people can also drink. After the capillaries are good, the skin and face can follow.
Xiaobian's suggestion: when brewing hawthorn, you should pour a certain amount of boiled water according to the number of hawthorn. The boiling water temperature should be about 80 degrees. Generally, 8-10 pieces of dried Hawthorn are poured into 400-500ml boiled water. Too little water, hawthorn doesn't taste. Most of them taste too sour and don't taste good. You can also put Hawthorn according to your personal preference, or you can make Hawthorn sauce. Porridge can be used for seasoning.
Hawthorn sauce
Hawthorn 800g, water 400G. After the hawthorn is thoroughly washed, dig the roots and seeds with a knife.
Pour hawthorn and water into the pot. After boiling, cook slowly over low heat. Stir constantly over low heat and stir fry until hawthorn is viscous.
The Hawthorn can be squeezed into mud with a spoon. The whole process needs to be stirred constantly to prevent burning. After turning off the fire, squeeze in lemon juice to prevent oxidation.
The bottles shall be steamed and sterilized in advance, bottled while hot, buckled and cooled, and stored in the refrigerator.
7. Xiaoshi 'medicine' fresh hawthorn or big Hawthorn pill
Hawthorn has the function of digestion and accumulation. Da Hawthorn pill is a very famous representative. People with poor gastrointestinal function and poor digestive function can use it (often feel bloated or indigestible).
Xiaobian reminded that some patients with 'old stomach diseases', such as gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer, have more gastric acid. If they eat a lot of hawthorn, it is easy to become an inducement for the attack of gastric stones.
In addition to 'old stomach disease', others do not recommend eating too much hawthorn, especially when eating on an empty stomach, the stomach will be uncomfortable. The effect of hawthorn on stomach and digestion can only play a role in a specific amount, such as no more than 10 at a time.