Hawthorn is a common fruit in life, rich in vitamins and high nutritional value, with a sour and sweet taste. Ophiopogon is a nourishing yin medicinal material. Can hawthorn and ophiopogon be soaked together and drunk?
Stomach health and digestion
Hawthorn contains organic acids and other acidic substances, which can promote the secretion of gastric juice and facilitate food digestion. Hawthorn is good at resolving meat accumulation and has good therapeutic effects on poor appetite, bloating, and meat accumulation. Ophiopogon belongs to the stomach meridian and has the effect of promoting stomach health and digestion when consumed with hawthorn.
Lung nourishment and fluid production
Ophiopogon can moisten the lungs and relieve cough, as well as nourish yin and produce fluids. It is often paired with Lily, American ginseng, and Rehmannia, which are qi-tonifying and yin-nourishing medicinal materials. Consuming hawthorn and ophiopogon together can tonify the spleen and produce fluids, suitable for symptoms such as dry mouth, dry cough with blood, caused by lung and stomach yin deficiency. It also has certain therapeutic effects on symptoms caused by insufficient heart yin, such as palpitations, insomnia, and heat-induced fluid damage.
Blood circulation and stasis dispersal
Hawthorn has a sour and sweet taste, which can invigorate the spleen and stimulate appetite, but it also has the effect of promoting blood circulation and dispersing blood stasis. Consuming hawthorn and ophiopogon together can not only nourish yin, moisten the lungs, and promote stomach health and digestion, but also promote blood circulation and disperse blood stasis. It is suitable for symptoms such as meat stagnation, bloating, blood stasis, amenorrhea, postpartum blood stasis, etc.
How to soak hawthorn and ophiopogon together?
Hawthorn and ophiopogon drink
1. Take 10 grams each of ophiopogon and hawthorn, wash them;
2. Put them in a cup and brew with boiling water for 5 minutes;
3. Let it cool and drink, it can be brewed multiple times.
Effects: invigorates the spleen and benefits the stomach, promotes digestion and produces fluids, promotes blood circulation and resolves stasis.
