Lishu hawthorn

Crataegus pinnatifida, also known as "Mountain Red", "Fairy Fruit" and "Shepherd Fox", is a small deciduous tree of Rosaceae, with dark gray bark, light yellow lenticels, purplish brown branchlets, simple leaves alternate or clustered on short branches, broad oval leaves, corymbose inflorescences, white flowers, pink in the later stage, spherical fruits, dark red when ripe, and light spots on the surface. The flowering period is 5-6 months and the fruiting period is July-October. Born in sunny slopes, miscellaneous forest edges, bushes and vegetable forests at an altitude of 400-1000 meters. The fruit of Crataegus pinnatifida is sweet and sour, which can promote fluid production and quench thirst, and has high nutritional and medicinal value. Hawthorn can be made into hawthorn slices, hawthorn cakes, preserved fruits, hawthorn wine, etc. It can also be used as medicine, which belongs to spleen, stomach and liver meridians, and has the effects of promoting digestion, resolving food stagnation, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Professor Zhang Juzhong of the University of Science and Technology of China determined the carbon 14 dating of the residue on pottery fragments in Jiahu site in Henan province before 8600, and confirmed that hawthorn was the first fruit to be drunk. "Song Yue Literature" contains: During the Yellow Emperor's period 5000 years ago, there was a description of brewing wine with hawthorn in Laojun Cave of Songshan Mountain. Nutritional efficacy: Hawthorn tablets contain vitamins, maslinic acid, tartaric acid, citric acid, malic acid, etc., and also contain flavonoids, lactones, sugars, protein, fats, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other minerals, and the lipolytic enzyme contained in them can promote the digestion of fatty foods. Promote the secretion of gastric juice and increase the functions of gastric enzymes. Chinese medicine believes that hawthorn has the effects of eliminating stagnation, astringing and stopping dysentery, promoting blood circulation and removing stasis. Indications are food stagnation, chest fullness, hernia and blood stasis amenorrhea. Hawthorn contains triterpenes and brass, which has obvious vasodilating and antihypertensive effects, and has the functions of strengthening myocardium, anti-arrhythmia, and regulating blood lipid and cholesterol content. Wide adaptability: it can be eaten by ordinary people. Children, the elderly and dyspepsia are especially suitable for eating. People with colds, indigestion, loss of appetite, calcium deficiency in children's cartilage and iron deficiency anemia can eat more hawthorn tablets.
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