Everyone has eaten hawthorn before. Its sour and sweet taste is very good, and it is a healthy food for stomach health. Especially when made into candied hawthorn, the taste is even better. Today, let's together understand the efficacy and function of hawthorn!
1. Beauty and weight loss
Hawthorn contains vitamin C, carotene, and other substances that can block and reduce the formation of free radicals, enhance the body's immunity, and have anti-aging and anti-cancer effects. Eating hawthorn can eliminate body fat and reduce fat absorption, which can achieve the effect of beauty and weight loss for women who love beauty.
2. Preventing arteriosclerosis
Hawthorn can significantly reduce serum cholesterol and triglycerides, effectively prevent and treat atherosclerosis. Hawthorn can also enhance myocardial contractility, increase cardiac output, dilate coronary arteries, increase coronary blood flow, and reduce myocardial oxygen consumption, playing a role in strengthening the heart and preventing angina. In addition, the total flavonoids in hawthorn have the effect of dilating blood vessels and maintaining long-term blood pressure reduction.
3. Reducing blood lipids and blood pressure
Hawthorn has the functions of reducing blood pressure, blood lipids, antioxidant, enhancing immunity, and eliminating harmful bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract, and can also prevent liver cancer. If men have fatty liver, they should take care of their liver, and hawthorn is highly recommended. Hawthorn can aid digestion and has the effect of nourishing the liver and removing fat.
4. Helping digestion
Hawthorn contains various organic acids. After oral administration, it increases gastric acid secretion and improves the activity of gastric protease, promoting protein digestion. Hawthorn's sour taste stimulates gastric mucosa and promotes gastric acid secretion. Hawthorn contains lipase, which can promote fat digestion.
Hawthorn contains vitamin C and other components, which can promote appetite when taken orally. Hawthorn has a regulatory effect on gastrointestinal motility, inhibits spasmodic smooth muscles of the stomach and intestines, and stimulates relaxed smooth muscles.
