1. After buying hawthorn from the market, first rinse it with clean water several times, then go to Hu'er and soak it in salt water for half an hour.
2. After the salt water is soaked, put the hawthorn, water, and yellow rock sugar (sucrose) into the pot to boil. There are some froth in the pot, remember to skim it with a spoon.
3. After the hawthorn is boiled until thick, put it into a blender and stir until it becomes a porridge.
4. Put the stirred hawthorn in the pot for a second boil. When the hawthorn sauce is peeling on the side of the pot, turn off the heat. Add lemon juice and stir well.
5. The oven dish I use is covered with greased paper, and the boiled hawthorn sauce is placed in the dish with a thickness of 5 mm. Use a spatula or spoon to smooth the sauce.
6. Generally, it is enough to cool for about two or three days, cut into thin strips you like, dip in sugar and serve on a plate.
Tips:Hawthorn functions and indications
Eliminate food accumulation, disperse blood stasis, and drive away tapeworms. Cure fleshy, gluttony, phlegm, fullness, soreness, diarrhea, intestinal wind, low back pain, hernia, postpartum occipital pain in infants, inexhaustible lochia, and stagnation of milk and food in children. To promote digestion and invigorate the stomach, promote Qi and disperse blood stasis. It is used for meat stagnation, gastric fullness, diarrhea, abdominal pain, blood stasis, amenorrhea, postpartum stasis, abdominal tingling, hernia pain, and hyperlipidemia.
Hawthorn consumption taboo:
Hawthorn should not be eaten with pig liver. Hawthorn is rich in vitamin C, and pig liver contains metal trace elements such as copper, iron, zinc, etc., both of which eat together will accelerate the oxidation of vitamin C and be destroyed, reducing the nutritional value, so Hawthorn and pig liver should not be eaten together.
Hawthorn and fruits and vegetables containing vitamin C decomposing enzyme should not be eaten together. Cucumber, pumpkin, carrots and other fruits and vegetables contain vitamin C decomposing enzyme. If eaten with hawthorn, it will destroy the vitamin C in hawthorn and reduce the nutritional value, so it is not suitable to eat together .
Hawthorn and seafood should not be eaten together. Seafood contains rich minerals and proteins such as calcium, iron, carbon and iodine. Hawthorn contains tannic acid. If eaten with seafood, it will synthesize tannin protein. These substances can cause constipation and cause nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and other symptoms, so it is not suitable to eat together.
Hawthorn is equivalent to vitamin K3. Vitamin K3 is a hemostatic medicine. Hawthorn is a blood-activating medicine. The vitamin C contained in it is not conducive to the hemostatic effect of vitamin K3.
Children in the period of tooth replacement should not eat more hawthorn, which will damage the teeth and adversely affect the growth and development of children's teeth.
Hawthorn has the effect of promoting women's uterine contraction. If pregnant women eat more hawthorn, it will cause miscarriage, so it is not advisable to eat more.
Hawthorn suitable for the crowd:
For those with fullness and swelling caused by food injury, especially those with inability to eat meat and pain in the upper abdomen, eating is most appropriate; suitable for middle-aged and elderly heart failure, hypertension, coronary heart disease, angina pectoris, hyperlipidemia, paroxysmal Food for patients with tachycardia and various cancers; suitable for women who do not come during menstruation or postpartum congestion, abdominal pain, and those with incomplete lochia; in addition, it is also suitable for obesity, scurvy (vitamin C deficiency), viral hepatitis, and fat It is consumed by patients with liver, acute and chronic nephritis, tapeworm disease, and intestinal infection.
