Function and efficacy of hawthorn

Hawthorn has the functions of preventing various diseases, promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis and promoting digestion, as follows:

I. Prevention of various diseases

Hawthorn can prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases and improve our heart problems. Lowering blood pressure and cholesterol, softening blood vessels, inducing diuresis, and calming down are the functions of preventing arteriosclerosis, preventing aging, and resisting cancer.

Second, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis.

Hawthorn has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, which helps to relieve local congestion and has an auxiliary effect on traumatic injury.

Third, help digestion.

After oral administration, the acidity of gastric juice increased, the activity of pepsin increased, and the digestion of protein was promoted. Hawthorn tastes sour, stimulates gastric mucosa and promotes gastric juice secretion; Hawthorn contains lipase, which can promote the digestion of fat; Hawthorn contains vitamin C and other ingredients, which can increase appetite if taken orally.

Extended data

Hawthorn consumers:

1, where the abdomen is full and full after meals, especially for people with indigestion of meat and epigastric pain, it is most suitable to eat; Suitable for middle-aged and elderly patients with heart weakness, hypertension, coronary heart disease, angina pectoris, hyperlipidemia, paroxysmal tachycardia and various cancers;

2. It is suitable for women with overdue menstruation or postpartum abdominal pain caused by blood stasis and lochia;

3. In addition, it is also suitable for patients with obesity, scurvy (vitamin C deficiency), viral hepatitis, fatty liver, acute and chronic nephritis, tapeworm disease and intestinal infection.

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