What are the benefits of drinking hawthorn tea regularly?

Hawthorn tea, as the name suggests, is tea made from hawthorn. Anyone who knows a little about weight loss knows this. Drinking hawthorn tea has a good weight loss effect. So what are the other benefits of drinking hawthorn tea regularly?

Hawthorn, also known as mountain red, red fruit, and carmine fruit, is the dried mature fruit of the mountain red or hawthorn plant of the Rosaceae family. It has a hard texture, thin flesh, moderate sourness and sweetness, and a unique flavor. Hawthorn has high nutritional and medical value. Elderly people who often eat hawthorn products can enhance appetite, improve sleep, maintain the stability of calcium in bones and blood, and prevent atherosclerosis. Therefore, hawthorn is regarded as a "longevity food."

Hawthorn contains a large amount of vitamin C and trace elements, which can dilate blood vessels, lower blood pressure, lower blood sugar, improve and promote cholesterol excretion and lower blood lipids, and prevent the occurrence of hyperlipidemia. Hawthorn can stimulate appetite and promote digestion. The lipase contained in hawthorn can also promote the digestion of fat. The flavonoids, vitamin C, carotene and other substances contained in hawthorn can block and reduce the generation of free radicals, enhance the body's immunity, delay aging, and prevent and fight cancer. Hawthorn can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, help eliminate blood stasis, and assist in the treatment of bruises and injuries. Hawthorn has a contraction effect on the uterus and can induce labor in pregnant women.

Regular consumption of hawthorn can dilate blood vessels, lower blood sugar, lower blood pressure, and prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases and senile heart disease. Using hawthorn fruit to treat diseases has a long history in China. "Tang Materia Medica" records: taking the juice can stop dysentery; "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: hawthorn can digest food, eliminate meat stagnation, etc. For those with weak spleen and stomach, indigestion, soreness, tingling and fullness in the chest and abdomen, it is best to take two or three pills of Ⅱ cup after a meal. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that hawthorn has the functions of promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Moreover, modern drug physical and chemical research has found that the medicinal value of hawthorn is more obvious in the field of blood lipids.