食疗方
1.山楂枸杞饮
山楂、枸杞各15g。二者加沸水冲泡。每日频饮。
适用于病后体虚乏力，食欲不振，消化不良，腰膝酸软，目暗昏花等症。枸杞含有多种不饱和脂肪酸、氨基酸、维生素等成分，具有养阴补血，益精明目之功效，还可保肝、降血压、降血糖，与山楂共用，具有补肝益肾，补血益脑功能。
2.山楂核桃饮
核桃仁150克，山楂50克，白糖200克。核桃仁加水少许，用石磨磨成浆，装入容器中，再加适量凉开水调成稀浆汁。山楂去核，切片，加水500毫升煎煮半小时，滤出头汁，再煮取二汁 ，一、二汁合并，复置火上，加入白糖搅拌，待溶化后，再缓缓倒入核桃仁浆汁，边倒边搅匀，烧至微沸即可。早晚各服1次，温服为宜。
功效：补肺肾，润肠燥，消食积。用于肺虚咳嗽、气喘，腰痛，便干，食积，经少腹痛等。也可作为冠心病、高血压、高脂血症及老年便秘等患者的保健饮料。
3.山楂决明荷叶汤
山楂、决明子各15g，荷叶半张。山楂切片，荷叶切丝，与决明子加水共煎。取汁代茶饮。
适用于冠心病、高血压、高血脂、肥胖症等。决明子能抑制血清胆固醇的升高，抑制主动脉粥样硬化斑块的形成，其水浸液具有降压作用。荷叶有止渴、散瘀血、助脾胃、消水肿等功效，与山楂合用，可祛脂降压，减肥健身，为高血压之头晕目眩等症之药膳良方。
Hawthorn is used for diseases of the heart and blood vessels such as congestive heart failure (CHF), chest pain, and irregular heartbeat. Some people use hawthorn for digestive system complaints such as indigestion, diarrhea, and stomach pain.
It is loaded with antioxidants; may have anti-inflammatory properties, lower blood pressure, decrease blood fats. Used to aid digestion. Helps prevent hair loss. May reduce anxiety. Used to treat heart failure.
Hawthorn is used to treating both low blood pressure and high blood pressure, “hardening of the arteries” (atherosclerosis), and high cholesterol.
Hawthorn antioxidants include oligomeric procyanidins (OPCs) and quercetin. Antioxidants destroy free radicals that occur naturally in the body and increase in number as we age. Free radicals damage cells and their DNA. Antioxidants in hawthorn defeat free radicals particularly those that lead to heart disease. Hawthorn berries are also a good source of triterpenic acid which lowers LDL cholesterol. Hawthorn syrup used as a sweetener alternative along with a heart-healthy diet is a smart addition to the health conscience dieter.
Caution: Hawthorn is counter-indicated for patients using beta-blockers, calcium channel blockers, nitrate-based medication, or medication for male sexual function as it lowers blood pressure.
Hawthorn Syrup Recipe
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Hawthorn berries (dried)
- 1 1/2 cups water
- 1 1/2 cups honey
- 2 oz brandy
- 1 Tbs cayenne tincture (ginger tincture may be substituted)
- Pour the hawthorn berries into the cook pot with the water and soak overnight. [Rinse and use fresh water for cooking.]
- Put the cook pot on the stove and cook on lowest setting, covered, for one hour.
- Remove cook pot from stove and allow to cool thoroughly.
- Mash hawthorn berries.
- Add brandy.
- Cover pot and return to stove on low and allow hawthorn to steep a minimum of 20 minutes or until water darkens.
- Place 2 layers of cheesecloth in the strainer.
- Pour hawthorn through the strainer and keep 1 1/2 cups of infused water/brandy for syrup.
- Add honey and infused water to make syrup.
- More honey may be added for a sweeter syrup.
- Stir cayenne tincture into to cooled product.
- Pour finished product into bottle and label clearly.
Storage and Use
Store Hawthorn Syrup in the refrigerator for up to 3 months. Children under 12: Take 1 teaspoon of syrup no more than 4 times daily.
Adults: Take 1 tablespoon of syrup no more than 4 times daily.
Not intended for children under age 2.
The taste is sour, sweet, and it is lukewarm in effect. It enters the Spleen, Stomach and Liver meridians.
Effect: It helps with digestion and invigorates the stomach, promotes qi and dissipates blood stasis, reduces turbidity and reduces fat.
Indications: It has been used for stagnant circulation, stomach fullness, diarrhea, abdominal pain, blood stasis amenorrhea, postpartum stasis, heart and abdomen tingling, chest pain, hernia pain, hyperlipidemia. The effect of Jiaoshan Hawthorn on digestion and stagnation is enhanced.
Related Uses
- Cures all food accumulation : [stuck digestion]
2 tael hawthorn, 2 tael atractylodes. Used in the steamed cake pill, Wu Yuda, the seventy pill, and the white soup. ("Danxi Heart Method")
- Hawthorn meat: 4 taels hawthorn meat is boiled in water, and drink its juice.
3.Stagnant abdominal pain: Hawthorn decoction. ("Fangmai Authentic")
- Treatment of bowel wind: Simmer jujube and bonemeal and rice 2-3 hours. Add brown sugar to taste. ("Hundred One Selection Party")
- Treat the elderly with low back pain and leg pain: Divide the tang bangzi and deer antler powder into equal parts. After cooking add honey to make pill. Wuzi is big, with one hundred pills per serving, two servings a day. ("Compendium of Materia Medica")
- Treat cold and damp lower abdomen pain, for large external kidney swelling and pain: Ingredients: fennel, persimmon and hawthorn. The ingredients are cooked and mashed, one or two cups per serving, adding salt, wine; serve hot. ("One Hundred One Selection Party")
