The efficacy and function of hawthorn powder

Hawthorn powder is a very common fruit in our life. Hawthorn is rich in citric acid and hawthorn acid, as well as a variety of trace elements, which are suitable for human health and are very helpful. In daily life, many people will grind hawthorn into powder and eat it, which is more convenient and quick. Hawthorn has the effects of anti-cancer and cancer prevention, lowering blood pressure and blood lipids, and treating cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. It can also treat dysmenorrhea and irregular menstruation.

What are the effects, functions and contraindications of hawthorn powder and how to eat hawthorn powder?

1. Anti-cancer

Recent studies have found that hawthorn powder contains a compound called vitexin, which has anti-cancer effects. If you have indigestion, you can also cook porridge with hawthorn powder and rice. This can not only aid digestion, but also play an auxiliary anti-cancer role.

2. Lowering blood pressure and lipids

Patients with hypertension can eat hawthorn powder every day and persist in eating hawthorn powder for a period of time. Hawthorn powder has the effect of lowering blood pressure, lowering blood lipids and regulating blood lipids.

3. Treat coronary heart disease

The flavonoids contained in hawthorn powder can dilate coronary arteries and increase coronary blood flow. Therefore, patients with coronary heart disease (including angina pectoris) should drink hawthorn powder and white sugar water regularly.

4. Treat dysmenorrhea and irregular menstruation

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that hawthorn powder has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and is an excellent food therapy for patients with blood stasis type dysmenorrhea. Hawthorn powder is also suitable for people with irregular menstruation and blood stasis as diagnosed by traditional Chinese medicine.

5. Weight loss

The lipase contained in hawthorn powder can promote the digestion of fatty foods and scrape out all the foods in your body that make you gain fat. In addition, hawthorn powder can also promote the secretion of gastric juice and increase the enzymes in the stomach.

Taboos of Hawthorn Powder

1. Avoid excessive consumption of hawthorn powder

The large amount of tannic acid contained in hawthorn powder can easily form gastric stones when combined with stomach acid, which are difficult to digest. If gastric stones remain in the body for a long time, they will cause gastric ulcers, gastric bleeding, and even gastric perforation. Therefore, the editor recommends that you should consume hawthorn powder in moderation. People with weak gastrointestinal function should consume it with caution.

2. Hawthorn powder cannot be taken on an empty stomach

Because it contains a large amount of fruit acid, organic acid, hawthorn acid, etc., eating it on an empty stomach will cause a sharp increase in stomach acid, thereby causing adverse stimulation to the gastric mucosa, causing stomach bloating and heartburn. If eaten on an empty stomach, it will increase hunger and aggravate the original stomach pain.

3. People who are forbidden to eat hawthorn powder

People with excessive gastric acid, peptic ulcer and tooth decay, cardiovascular disease, indigestion, cancer, enteritis and those taking other tonic medicines should avoid eating hawthorn powder. People with weak spleen and stomach should consume it with caution. Pregnant women should not eat it.