Does hawthorn slices stimulate appetite?

I don’t know if you have ever eaten hawthorn slices. The sour and sweet taste has won unanimous praise from many of us. It is a food suitable for all ages and many people love to eat it. Hawthorn slices also have many benefits for us. Hawthorn slices can help us improve our intestinal digestion ability and help us improve indigestion. Let us now learn about whether hawthorn slices are appetizing.

Hawthorn has important medicinal value. Since ancient times, it has been a good medicine for strengthening the spleen and appetite, digesting food and relieving stagnation, and promoting blood circulation and resolving phlegm. At present, there are more than 50 Chinese medicine formulas that use hawthorn as raw material, such as common appetizer and spleen-strengthening medicines such as "Hawthorn Pills" and "Jiao Sanxian".

The fruit of hawthorn is used as medicine. It is slightly warm in nature, sour and sweet in taste, and enters the spleen, stomach, and liver meridians. It has the functions of helping digestion and strengthening the stomach, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and astringing and stopping diarrhea. It is effective for meat accumulation, phlegm and fluid, fullness and acid regurgitation, diarrhea, intestinal wind, low back pain and hernia, postpartum occipital pain, lochia retention, and milk and food stagnation in children.

Because hawthorn contains hawthorn acid and other organic acids, it tastes sour and sweet, and contains lipase. After entering the stomach, it can enhance the action of enzymes, promote meat digestion, and help cholesterol conversion. Therefore, for people who feel full after eating meat or greasy food, eating some hawthorn, hawthorn slices, hawthorn water or hawthorn pills can help digestion. It is a key food for the elderly. Hawthorn can also promote bile secretion and promote gastric juice secretion.

Because hawthorn is rich in various organic acids, it can preserve the vitamin C in hawthorn and it will not be destroyed even when heated. Therefore, vitamin C can still be preserved after making hawthorn cakes and other products. Hawthorn is also rich in carotene, calcium, oleanolic acid, guanine, hawthorne and other triterpenoid acids and flavonoids (flavonoid polyflavonoids, triflavonoids, tannins and other chemical components), which can dilate blood vessels, strengthen and regulate the myocardium, increase ventricular and cardiac amplitude and coronary blood flow, lower serum cholesterol and blood pressure; in addition, hawthorn has an auxiliary therapeutic effect on cardiac dysfunction, vascular neurosis, fibrillation arrhythmia and other diseases; hawthorn also contains quercetin, which has the function of dilating blood vessels, promoting tracheal cilia movement, expectorating and relieving asthma.

The effect of hawthorn slices in stimulating appetite is very significant. We must eat more hawthorn slices in our daily life. On the one hand, it can help us appreciate the deliciousness and on the other hand, it can help us achieve the effect of stimulating appetite. With so many benefits, why not try to eat more? We must develop a good habit of eating more hawthorn slices.