The role and efficacy of hawthorn enzyme

In our daily life, enzymes are a common food for us, and hawthorn enzyme is an enzyme concentrate made from hawthorn. Eating hawthorn enzyme is very good for the body. It can promote digestion and prevent diseases. It can also lower blood lipids, stimulate appetite and strengthen the spleen. At the same time, hawthorn contains a unique brass that can effectively play an anti-cancer role and is very good for the body.

What are the effects and functions of hawthorn enzyme?

1. Aid digestion. It improves the activity of pepsin, promotes protein digestion, increases appetite, and has a regulating effect on gastrointestinal motility.

2. Lower blood lipids and resist atherosclerosis.

3. Anti-myocardial ischemia, it has the effect of enhancing myocardial contractility and increasing cardiac output.

Hawthorn, also known as mountain fruit and mountain red.

Hawthorn is a unique Chinese tree species that can be used as both medicine and fruit. It has the effects of lowering blood lipids, blood pressure, strengthening the heart, and resisting arrhythmia. It is also a good medicine for strengthening the spleen and appetite, digesting food and removing stagnation, promoting blood circulation and removing phlegm. It has a good effect on chest and spleen fullness, hernia, blood stasis, amenorrhea and other symptoms. Vitexin, a flavonoid compound in hawthorn, is a drug with strong anti-cancer effects. Its extract has a certain effect on inhibiting the growth, proliferation, infiltration and metastasis of cancer cells in the body.

The main effects of hawthorn

1. Aid digestion

Hawthorn contains a variety of organic acids. After oral administration, it enhances the acidity of gastric juice, increases the activity of pepsin, and promotes the digestion of protein; hawthorn tastes sour, stimulates the gastric mucosa and promotes the secretion of gastric juice; hawthorn contains lipase, which can promote the digestion of fat; hawthorn contains vitamin C and other ingredients, which can increase appetite when taken orally; hawthorn has a regulating effect on gastrointestinal motility, inhibits the gastrointestinal smooth muscle in spasm, and excites the smooth muscle in relaxation.

2. Lowering blood lipids and preventing atherosclerosis

Hawthorn flavonoids can significantly reduce the concentrations of serum total cholesterol (TC), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (IDL-C) and apolipoprotein B (ApoB) in experimental hyperlipidemia animals, and significantly increase the concentrations of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) and apolipoprotein A (ApoA), but have little effect on triglycerides (TG). Hawthorn's lipid-lowering effect is achieved by inhibiting the synthesis of cholesterol in the liver and promoting the liver's uptake of plasma cholesterol. Hawthorn flavonoids can also reduce the risk of atherosclerosis (AS) and play a role in preventing the occurrence and development of AS.

3. Effects on the cardiovascular system

Anti-myocardial ischemia

Hawthorn has a protective effect on acute experimental myocardial ischemia. Hawthorn flavonoids and hydrolyzates increase the nutritional blood flow to the ischemic myocardium, among which hawthorn hydrolyzate has the strongest effect. While increasing coronary blood flow, hawthorn can also reduce myocardial oxygen consumption and improve oxygen utilization. Hawthorn flavonoids can improve the ischemic electrocardiogram of animals. Hawthorn flavonoids can reduce the size of experimental myocardial infarction in rabbits.

Strong Heart

Hawthorn has the effect of enhancing myocardial contractility and increasing cardiac output. Hawthorn extract can enhance the myocardial contractility of toad hearts in vivo and in vitro, and the effect lasts for a long time. The active ingredients currently identified are 3',4',5,7-tetrahydroxyflavone-7-glucoside and rutin.

Blood pressure reduction

Hawthorn flavonoids and triterpene acids have shown a certain antihypertensive effect when administered intravenously, intraperitoneally, or intraduodenally. Their mechanism of action is mainly related to the dilation of peripheral blood vessels.