Hawthorn tea(shan zha cha )

Hawthorn tea method:

Raw materials for hawthorn tea

Black tea 5g, hawthorn sauce 70g, fresh lemon juice 30ml, sugar 150g.

The processing steps of hawthorn tea are as follows:

1. Make 1000 ml black tea juice according to the black tea brewing method.

2. Boil 1000 ml of water, pour in Hawthorn sauce and sugar, mix well, then turn off the fire, and filter out the sediment.

3. Add black tea juice and hawthorn juice into lemon juice, mix well and drink.

Characteristics of hawthorn tea:

Sour and sweet, cool thirst, stomach digestion.

Hawthorn tea

Hawthorn tea is a health tea therapy. Hawthorn -- sour, sweet and mild. Guipi, Wei, Gan Jing, Xiaoshi Jianwei, Xingqi Sanyu, coronary artery dilation, vasodilation, lipid-lowering, antihypertensive and cardiotonic effect.

It is round, wrinkled, 1-2.5cm in diameter and 0.2-0.4cm in thickness. Skin red, wrinkled, with small gray spots. Flesh dark yellow to light brown. There are 5 light yellow nuclei in the middle section, but most of them are hollow. There are short and thin fruit stalks or calyx remnants on some leaves. It is slightly fragrant, sour and sweet.

brief introduction

[source] Crataegus pinnatifida bge.var.majorfn.e.br. Or Crataegus pinnatifida Bge. Is the dried and mature fruit of Crataegus pinnatifida Bge. The fruits are harvested, sliced and dried in autumn. Common pieces are net hawthorn, fried hawthorn, coke hawthorn. The common non authentic products are South hawthorn, Hubei hawthorn, wide hawthorn, Jianzui LinQin.

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Nutrients

Content chart

Hawthorn in hawthorn tea contains a variety of vitamins, hawthorn acid, tartaric acid, citric acid, malic acid, etc., and also contains flavonoids, lipids, sugars, protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other minerals.

Ingredient description

Pectin: the content of pectin in Hawthorn ranks first among all fruits, reaching 6.4%. Pectin has anti radiation effect and can take half of the radioactive elements (such as strontium, cobalt, palladium, etc.) from the body.

Hawthorn flavonoids: good for heart health and non-toxic side effects.

Organic acid: it can keep vitamin C in Hawthorn from being destroyed when heated.

Efficacy and function

Hawthorn, also known as shanlihong, Hongguo and rouge fruit, is the dry and mature fruit of shanlihong or hawthorn, a Rosaceae plant. It is hard in quality, thin in flesh, moderate in acidity and sweetness, and unique in flavor. Hawthorn has a high nutritional value and medical value, the elderly often eat hawthorn products can enhance appetite, improve sleep, maintain the constant calcium in bone and blood, prevent atherosclerosis, so hawthorn is regarded as "longevity food".

Hawthorn contains a lot of vitamin C and trace elements, can expand blood vessels, reduce blood pressure, reduce blood sugar, can improve and promote cholesterol excretion and reduce blood lipid, prevent the occurrence of hyperlipidemia, hawthorn can appetizer and promote digestion, hawthorn contains lipase can also promote fat digestion. Hawthorn contains flavonoids and vitamin C, carotene and other substances can block and reduce the generation of free radicals, can enhance the body's immunity, delay aging, anti-cancer. Hawthorn can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, help eliminate blood stasis, and assist in the treatment of traumatic injury. Hawthorn has contractive effect on the uterus, and has the effect of birth when pregnant women are in labor.

Hawthorn can dilate blood vessels, reduce blood sugar, lower blood pressure, prevent cardiovascular disease and senile heart disease. Hawthorn fruit has a long history in the treatment of diseases in China. "Tang Materia Medica" record: Juice take water stop dysentery; "compendium of Materia Medica" record: Hawthorn diet, eliminate meat stagnation, etc. If the spleen and stomach are weak, the food is indigestible, and the chest and abdomen are sour, it is better to take two or three pieces after meals. According to traditional Chinese medicine, hawthorn has the functions of producing body fluid, relieving thirst, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Moreover, the modern physicochemical research found that the medicinal value of Hawthorn penetrated into the blood lipid field more obviously.

It should be noted that Hawthorn taste sour, after heating will become more acidic, direct consumption should immediately brush teeth, otherwise not conducive to dental health. People with sour teeth can eat hawthorn products. Pregnant women should not eat Hawthorn to avoid induced abortion, those with weak spleen and stomach, those with low blood sugar and children should not eat hawthorn. Hawthorn can not be eaten on an empty stomach, hawthorn contains a lot of organic acid, fruit acid, hawthorn acid, citric acid and so on. If eaten on an empty stomach, it will make stomach acid surge, cause adverse stimulation to gastric mucosa, make stomach fullness and pantothenic acid. If eaten on an empty stomach, it will enhance hunger and aggravate the original stomach pain. In addition, the market full of a large number of dyed Hawthorn needs attention. Raw Hawthorn contains tannic acid and gastric acid, easy to form stomach stone, it is difficult to digest. If the stomach stone cannot be digested for a long time, it will cause gastric ulcer, gastric bleeding and even gastric perforation. Therefore, we should try to eat less raw hawthorn, especially those with weak gastrointestinal function should be more cautious. Doctors suggest that it is best to cook Hawthorn before eating.

Production production

raw material

Hawthorn and tea

Production technology

Wash Hawthorn 30g, slice and put it into the pot, add appropriate amount of water, boil for 5 minutes, then take the juice and drink it frequently instead of tea.

Hawthorn 500g, dried lotus leaf 200g, coix seed 200g, licorice 100g. Divide the above flavors into 10 packages, one package a day to be brewed with boiling water instead of tea.

Food Guide

How to eat

Several times a day with fresh hawthorn fruit 1-2 tea drinking.

Suitable population

It is suitable for patients with meat stagnation, infantile milk stagnation, epigastric pain, blood stasis amenorrhea, postpartum blood stasis, abdominal pain, hernia pain, hyperlipidemia, anorexia and weight loss.

Unsuitable population

Spleen and stomach weakness, body deficiency after disease.

Main efficacy

Edible effect

Invigorating the spleen and appetizing. Hawthorn tea Hawthorn ingredients taste sweet, slightly warm acid, into the spleen, stomach, liver.

Promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis and phlegm.

Xiaoshi Huazhi. The lipase can promote the digestion of fatty food. It can promote the secretion of gastric juice and increase the function of gastric enzymes.

Xiaoshi Huaji, Ruanjian Xiaoji. When boiled chicken hard meat, add a few Hawthorn that is easy to rot, that it has the role of Xiaoji meat.

Enhance appetite, improve sleep, keep calcium in bone and blood constant, prevent atherosclerosis. For the elderly, the effect is particularly obvious.

Medicinal efficacy

Indications: stagnation of meat, milk stagnation in children, epigastric pain, blood stasis, postpartum blood stasis, abdominal pain, hernia pain, hyperlipidemia, etc.

Dilate blood vessels, lower blood sugar, lower blood pressure. At the same time, often drinking hawthorn tea, for the treatment of hypertension has obvious auxiliary effect.

Prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease, has a strong role in the heart.

Other effects

Insect repellent.

Reduce fat and lose weight. Suitable for hyperlipidemia, hypertension, coronary heart disease, simple obesity and other diseases. Hawthorn contains hawthorn acid, flavonoids, lactones, sugars and glycosides. Hawthorn fruit contains citric acid, malic acid, hawthorn acid, tannin, saponin, fructose and vitamin C. Modern medicine believes that eating hawthorn and drinking hawthorn tea are good for weight loss.

Contraindications and side effects

It is not suitable to take ginseng and other tonics at the same time. It is not suitable to eat too much at one time. People with weak spleen and stomach should be careful to eat.

Hawthorn in hawthorn tea has the function of breaking air. Eating too much will consume air and affect the health of pregnant women and the development of fetus. At the same time, hawthorn can also strengthen the uterine contraction, can cause premature birth or abortion.

Hawthorn contains a large amount of fruit acid, which has the effect of astringent and stimulating gastric mucosa. The spleen and stomach function of the elderly is weak, and the development of children's spleen and stomach function is not complete. Eating too much Hawthorn will damage the stomach qi, reduce the digestive ability, and cause dyspepsia or emaciation.

Hawthorn can stimulate the secretion of gastric acid and increase the concentration of gastric acid rapidly. It is easy to cause nausea and acid vomiting. In severe cases, it can cause peptic ulcer.

People with body deficiency after disease need to increase nutrition to recover vitality. Hawthorn not only consumes energy, but also accelerates digestion and excretion, which affects the absorption and utilization of beneficial substances.

Hawthorn tea Hawthorn contains acid sugars, they are strong corrosive, can corrode the enamel of teeth, cause dental caries, aggravate dental disease.

Food culture

Hawthorn application in medicine, can be traced back to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, 16 centuries ago.

It is recorded in the new herbal medicine of Tang Dynasty that Hawthorn wood and fruit can cure dysentery and itching.

In the famous compendium of Materia Medica, Li Shizhen, a famous doctor in ancient China, called "Hawthorn like diet, elimination of internal accumulation, phlegm and acid swallowing, stagnation of blood and inflation".

In another famous ancient medicine book, huimu Materia Medica, hawthorn is also called "able to transform food, accumulate Qi, invigorate the stomach, and eliminate blood stasis".

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