What are the benefits of eating more hawthorn slices

Hawthorn is actually a very common fruit in daily life, but the taste of hawthorn is too sour when eaten directly, so most of the time we eat processed hawthorn. For example, candied haws and hawthorn slices are snacks made from hawthorn. Especially parents with young children at home will prepare a lot of hawthorn slices at home. At this time, parents need to understand the benefits of eating more hawthorn slices for children's health.

The efficacy and function of dried hawthorn slices

Everyone knows about hawthorn, right? Isn’t candied haws made of hawthorn? The hawthorn in "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree" is also the hawthorn we are going to talk about. Hawthorn is an edible fruit with great functions, and it is also a medicinal herb. What are the effects and functions of dried hawthorn?

Dried hawthorn is of course made by drying hawthorn in the sun. It is not only edible, but also can be used as medicine. It can also be made into finished products such as hawthorn peel and fruit dan peel, which have the effects of lowering blood lipids, blood pressure, and aiding digestion. Let’s take a closer look at the effects and functions of dried hawthorn.

1. Hawthorn can prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases. It has the effects of dilating blood vessels, increasing coronary blood flow, improving heart vitality, stimulating the central nervous system, lowering blood pressure and cholesterol, softening blood vessels, and having diuretic and sedative effects.

2. Hawthorn acid also has a cardiotonic effect and is beneficial for senile heart disease.

3. It can stimulate appetite and help digestion. Hawthorn is used in many digestive medicines.

4. Hawthorn has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, which helps to relieve local congestion and has an auxiliary therapeutic effect on bruises and injuries.

5. Hawthorn has a contraction effect on the uterus, can induce labor in pregnant women, and can promote the recovery of the uterus after delivery.

6. The flavonoids, vitamin C, carotene and other substances contained in hawthorn can block and reduce the generation of free radicals, enhance the body's immunity, and have anti-aging and anti-cancer effects.

7. Hawthorn contains ingredients that can relieve asthma, reduce phlegm, inhibit bacteria, and treat abdominal pain and diarrhea.

Knowing the effects and functions of dried hawthorn, patients with indigestion, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, etc. can use dried hawthorn to make tea. In addition, dried hawthorn can be soaked in water with tea leaves or chrysanthemums, which can moisturize the intestines, lower blood lipids, lower blood pressure, etc. It is suitable for patients with hypertension and coronary heart disease.

The effect of drinking hawthorn soaked in water

Hawthorn is rich in nutrients and has extremely high medicinal value. It is well known that the benefits of taking hawthorn are that it increases appetite, improves sleep quality, prevents atherosclerosis, and promotes physical health.

First: Prevention and treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases

Modern medical research has found that hawthorn contains an effective substance called flavonoids, which can effectively prevent and treat cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. After entering the body, this substance can greatly expand the size of blood vessels, which greatly improves the vitality of blood vessels and increases blood flow. In this way, blood pressure and cholesterol levels will drop, making the body naturally stronger.

Second: Activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis

Drinking hawthorn soaked in water can also help promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and is especially suitable for patients with blood stasis type dysmenorrhea. Many women are prone to dysmenorrhea during menstruation, such as lower abdominal pain or irregular menstrual flow. Taking hawthorn water can greatly reduce the possibility of dysmenorrhea.

Third: Cancer Prevention

Regular consumption of hawthorn water can also help prevent and treat cancer. This is because hawthorn contains vitexin, a compound that has a good preventive and therapeutic effect on cancer. If the nitrosamines and aflatoxin contained in the body increase, the possibility of developing cancer will greatly increase. The vitexin contained in hawthorn can effectively block the synthesis of nitrosamines in the body and play a good role in preventing and treating cancer.

Fourth: Promote digestion of fatty foods

The lipase contained in hawthorn has a good digestive effect on fatty foods and effectively promotes the secretion of gastric juice in the body, which greatly improves the digestive ability. Therefore, drinking hawthorn soaked in water has a good effect of strengthening the stomach, digesting food and stimulating the appetite. Only when the body's digestion ability is good, can the absorption ability be improved, and the body will get better and better. Experts tell us that most digestive medicines on the market now contain hawthorn.

Fifth: Prevent and treat arteriosclerosis

Regular consumption of hawthorn water can effectively reduce the levels of triglycerides and serum cholesterol in the body, thus greatly reducing the possibility of suffering from arteriosclerosis. In addition, hawthorn can greatly enhance myocardial contractility after entering the body, so that blood flow will be greatly increased and the possibility of some angina pectoris will be greatly reduced.

Conclusion: Through the above introduction, do you know what are the effects of hawthorn slices? Hawthorn slices also occupy an important position in the nutrition they contain. At the same time, it has many effects in treating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and it is also very effective in stimulating appetite. Therefore, both hawthorn and hawthorn slices will become our nutritious food and play a therapeutic effect.