Hawthorn, a medicinal and edible plant with the same origin

July 22, 2024

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According to pharmacopoeia records

This product is the dried and ripe fruit of the Rosaceae plant Shanlihong or Hawthorn. Harvested in autumn when fruits are ripe, sliced, and dried.
Appearance: This product is a circular tablet with uneven wrinkles, a diameter of 1-2.5cm, and a thickness of 0.2-0.4cm. The outer skin is red with wrinkles and small grayish white spots. The flesh is dark yellow to light brown. The central transverse section has 5 light yellow fruit nuclei, but the nuclei are mostly detached and hollow. Some slices show short and thin fruit stalks or remnants of sepals. The air is slightly fragrant, with a sour and slightly sweet taste.
Taste and meridian tropism: sour, sweet, slightly warm. Returning to the Spleen, Stomach, and Liver Meridians
Functions and Indications: Digestive and healthy stomach, promoting qi circulation, dispersing blood stasis, and reducing turbidity and cholesterol. Used for meat stagnation, bloating in the epigastric region, diarrhea and abdominal pain, blood stasis and menstrual obstruction, postpartum blood stasis, chest pain, hernia pain, hyperlipidemia. The digestive and stasis inducing effects of roasted hawthorn are enhanced. Used for meat stagnation, diarrhea and discomfort.
Technique and dosage: 9-12g

Storage: Store in a well ventilated and dry place to prevent insect damage.

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The function of hawthorn

Promote digestion of fatty foods

The lipase contained in hawthorn has a good digestive effect on fatty foods, effectively promoting the secretion of gastric juice in the body and greatly improving digestion ability.

Prevention and treatment of arteriosclerosis

Regular consumption of hawthorn water can effectively reduce the levels of triglycerides and serum cholesterol in the body. In addition, hawthorn has a good ability to enhance myocardial contractility and prevent angina pectoris.

Relieve asthma and reduce phlegm

Hawthorn has the effect of relieving asthma and resolving phlegm. If the body experiences discomfort in the throat, taking hawthorn water is also a good choice.

Beauty and skincare

The Vitamin C content in fresh hawthorn is very rich, ranking fourth among commonly eaten fruits, only behind prickly pear, fresh jujube, and kiwi, and twice that of citrus. Regularly taking hawthorn water can improve skin and complexion.

Promote digestion

Hawthorn contains lipase, which can promote fat digestion and increase the secretion of gastric digestive enzymes, promoting digestion.

Antibacterial effect

Hawthorn has strong antibacterial effects on Shigella flexneri, Shigella flexneri, Shigella sonnei, and other bacteria.

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Development of Hawthorn Products

Hawthorn fresh fruit, due to its sour and astringent taste, is rarely consumed directly. Only through processing can it form a consumer market. Advanced processing techniques can be used to process hawthorn into dried hawthorn, hawthorn beverages, hawthorn health products, etc., making hawthorn products nutritious, delicious, and able to maintain a certain amount of protein, amino acids, vitamins, and other nutrients.

Dried hawthorn

Dried hawthorn is produced by reducing water content to increase the concentration of soluble substances in the fruit, thereby inhibiting the activity of microorganisms and various enzymes in the fruit and achieving long-term preservation. The main dried product is hawthorn slices. The selected hawthorns are sliced manually or mechanically, and then naturally dried or dried using microwave or far-infrared radiation to make them. The process is simple and easy to preserve.

Hawthorn beverage

Hawthorn fruit can be processed into juice, pulp, powder, and other types of beverages. Most of these beverages are first extracted from hawthorn fruit juice, and then used as raw materials through blending. Due to the limitations of hawthorn planting areas and processing seasons, in order to extend the processing period of hawthorn beverages, they can be processed into hawthorn juice and its concentrated hawthorn juice.

Hawthorn extract products

Hawthorn flavonoids have high antioxidant and anti free radical activities, and are ideal raw materials for the production of natural health food. They can be extracted from their leaves and nuclear oil by supercritical extraction technology, and then powder products can be obtained by spray drying or vacuum freeze drying technology.

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2024-07-22

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