The efficacy of hawthorn malt Shenqu water

Nowadays, the ways of health preservation have become very diverse. Even hawthorn malt and Shenqu water can be very good for your body. After all, these three ingredients can be used as Chinese medicinal materials. If they are mixed together and soaked in water to drink, the nutritional value will only become richer. It has very important medicinal value. If you drink it frequently, it can achieve the effect of strengthening the stomach and digestion, and it can also be used to stop bleeding.

The value of Chinese medicine

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. Common appetite-stimulating and spleen-strengthening medicines include "Hawthorn Pills" and "Jiao Sanxian". Ancient Chinese medical scientists have long attached importance to hawthorn's ability to soften and eliminate lumps. When cooking the hard meat of an old chicken, adding a few hawthorns will make it easier to cook, which shows that it has the effect of digesting meat. The Chinese medicines Jiao Lanxian, Baohe Pills, and Shanzha Pills all use hawthorn as their main ingredient; hawthorn also has the effects of dispersing blood stasis, stopping bleeding, preventing heatstroke, and refreshing the mind.

The value of Western medicine

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 beneficial ingredients such as carotene, calcium, oleanolic acid, guanylic acid, hawthorne, and other triterpenoid acids and flavonoids (flavonoid polyflavonoids, trimerized flavonoids, tannins and other chemical components), which can dilate blood vessels, strengthen and regulate the myocardium, increase ventricular and cardiac movement 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, so hawthorn is an ideal health food and a food with good therapeutic effect for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease.

Effect on bacteria

According to pharmacological experiments, the decoction of scorched hawthorn has obvious inhibitory effects on various Shigella dysenteriae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus anthracis, etc. in vitro, so it can be used to treat bacillary dysentery.

Hawthorn can also treat red worms. Take 1 kg of fresh hawthorn, wash it, and chew it from 15:00 to 22:00 in the afternoon. Do not eat dinner. The next morning, take 100 grams of betel nut decoction in water and rest in bed. When you feel like having a bowel movement, wait for a while before going to the toilet. This will help expel the entire red worm. In winter, you should sit on a warm water toilet to prevent the red worms from shrinking due to the cold. The efficiency can reach 100%.

The pectin content in hawthorn ranks first among all fruits, reaching 6.4%. According to the latest research, pectin acts as an anti-radiation substance, removing half of the radioactive elements (strontium, cobalt, palladium, etc.) from the body. Pectin also has adsorption and antibacterial properties, which can remove bacteria and toxins from the intestines and bind water, thus treating diarrhea.