Hawthorn Fruit herbal material

Hawthorn Fruit

Overview

Aliases

Qiu, Liangmei, Qiuzi, Shucha, Yangqiu, Chizhaoshi

Nature and Flavor

Slightly Warm; Sour, Sweet

What's Inside

Ingredients

Hawthorn mainly contains flavonoids, the principal components of which are quercetin, vitexin, hyperoside, rutin, etc. It also contains oleanolic acid and other organic acids, fatty acids such as linoleic acid, tannins, sugars, proteins, and vitamin C, among others.

Therapeutic Effects

This product can increase the enzymes in the stomach and the volume of gastric juice secretion, promoting digestion. Hawthorn extract has cardiotonic, blood-pressure-lowering, coronary-flow-increasing, and antiarrhythmic effects. Both the total flavonoids and triterpene acids of hawthorn have blood-pressure-lowering, blood-lipid-lowering, and anti-atherosclerotic effects, and can increase the serum lysozyme content of rabbits and the T-lymphocyte transformation rate in blood, etc. In addition, this product also has uterus-contracting, antioxidant, antitumor, antibacterial, and diuretic effects.

Precautions

No precautions information available

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