Does hawthorn enhance male sexual function?

Hawthorn is a bright red fruit that tastes sour and is very appetizing. In winter, there are many roadside stalls selling candied haws. The most original candied haws are made by stringing hawthorns together with a thick layer of syrup on the outside. It tastes sour and sweet and is very delicious. Hawthorn is also a very good Chinese medicinal material, so can eating hawthorn regularly help to strengthen your sexual function? Here I will tell you in detail the effects of hawthorn.

1. The efficacy of hawthorn:

It can eliminate food accumulation, disperse blood stasis, and expel red parasites.

It is used to treat meat accumulation, abdominal masses, phlegm and fluid, fullness, acid regurgitation, diarrhea, intestinal wind, low back pain, hernia, occipital pain in postpartum children, retained lochia, and stagnation of milk and food in children. It helps digestion, strengthens the stomach, promotes qi and relieves blood stasis. It is used for meat stagnation, gastric bloating, abdominal pain due to diarrhea, amenorrhea due to blood stasis, postpartum blood stasis, stabbing pain in the heart and abdomen, hernia pain, and hyperlipidemia.

2. The role of hawthorn:

1. Cancer prevention and anti-cancer

Recent studies have found that hawthorn contains a compound called vitexin, which has anti-cancer effects.

Both nitrosamines and aflatoxin can induce the occurrence or aggravation of gastrointestinal cancer. Experimental studies have shown that hawthorn extract can not only block the synthesis of nitrosamines, but also inhibit the carcinogenic effect of aflatoxin. Therefore, people at high risk of gastrointestinal cancer should eat hawthorn regularly. For patients who already have cancer, if they experience indigestion, they can also cook porridge with hawthorn and rice. This can not only aid digestion, but also play an auxiliary anti-cancer role.

2. Strengthen the heart, lower blood lipids and blood pressure

Clinical studies have confirmed that hawthorn can significantly lower serum cholesterol and triglycerides, and effectively prevent and treat atherosclerosis; hawthorn can also strengthen the heart and prevent angina pectoris by enhancing myocardial contractility, increasing cardiac output, dilating coronary arteries, increasing coronary blood flow, and reducing myocardial oxygen consumption. In addition, the total flavonoids in hawthorn have the effect of dilating blood vessels and permanently lowering blood pressure. Therefore, patients with hyperlipidemia, hypertension and coronary heart disease can take 15 to 30 grams of raw hawthorn every day, boil it in water and drink it as tea.

3. Treat dysmenorrhea and irregular menstruation

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that hawthorn has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and is an excellent food therapy for patients with blood stasis type dysmenorrhea. Patients with blood stasis type dysmenorrhea often experience lower abdominal pain on the 1st to 2nd day of menstruation or 1 to 2 days before menstruation. When the menstrual blood flows smoothly, the pain gradually decreases or disappears, and the menstrual blood is dark in color and accompanied by blood clots. Patients can take 1000 grams of fresh hawthorn with core, wash it, add appropriate amount of water, simmer until the hawthorn is cooked, add 250 grams of brown sugar, and simmer for another 10 minutes until it becomes a thin paste. Start taking it 3 to 5 days before menstruation, eat 30 ml of hawthorn paste every morning and evening, and stop taking it 3 days after menstruation. This is one course of treatment, and it will be effective after taking 3 courses in a row. This method is also suitable for those with irregular menstruation and blood stasis as diagnosed by traditional Chinese medicine.

3. There are many benefits for men to eat hawthorn!

Hawthorn can prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases, dilate blood vessels, strengthen the heart, increase coronary blood flow, improve heart vitality, excite the central nervous system, lower blood pressure and cholesterol, soften blood vessels, and have diuretic and sedative effects; it can prevent and treat arteriosclerosis, anti-aging, and anti-cancer effects. Hawthorn acid also has a cardiotonic effect and is beneficial for senile heart disease. It can stimulate the appetite and help digestion, especially it is better for eliminating meat stagnation. Hawthorn is used in many digestive medicines; Hawthorn has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, helps to relieve local congestion, and has an auxiliary effect on bruises; Hawthorn has a contraction effect on the uterus, has the effect of inducing labor when pregnant women are about to give birth, and can promote postpartum recovery of the uterus; the flavonoids, vitamin C, carotene and other substances contained in hawthorn can block and reduce the generation of free radicals, can enhance the body's immunity, and has anti-aging and anti-cancer effects. Hawthorn contains ingredients that can relieve asthma, reduce phlegm, inhibit bacteria, and treat abdominal pain and diarrhea.