When is hawthorn generally available? What happens if you eat hawthorn with milk tea?

Hawthorn, also known as red fruit, mountain red, rouge fruit, etc., is one of the traditional commonly used Chinese medicines, and is also a familiar digestive and stomachic food. Generally, there are more dried hawthorns on the market now. It seems that we don’t know when the real fresh hawthorn will be on the market. Let’s open it and take a look!

Contents of this article

1. When is hawthorn generally available on the market?

2. What happens if you eat hawthorn and milk tea together?

3. What are the benefits of drinking hawthorn water?

When is hawthorn generally available?

Hawthorn is generally available from August to October.

Hawthorn, also known as Shanlihong, is slightly warm in nature, sour and sweet in taste. It has the functions of digesting food, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, removing phlegm and promoting qi, and astringing and stopping diarrhea. It is suitable for meat stagnation, accumulation of lumps, abdominal distension, abdominal pain due to blood stasis, diarrhea due to phlegm and fluid, and blood in the intestine. Usually, the flowering period of hawthorn is May and June, and the fruiting period is from August to October. In autumn, the fruits are harvested, sliced, and dried when they are ripe. So during this period, you can buy fresh hawthorn in the supermarket.

What happens if you eat hawthorn and milk tea together?

No. Hawthorn is rich in various fruit acids. If you drink milk tea while eating hawthorn, the fruit acid will react chemically with protein to produce insoluble precipitates, which not only hinders the absorption of protein, but also hinders the operation of the digestive system, which is very bad for your health. You can drink hawthorn milk tea. Hawthorn milk has certain chemical agents added to it to dissolve the precipitates produced.

What are the benefits of drinking hawthorn water?

Hawthorn, also known as red fruit, mountain red, rouge fruit, etc., is one of the traditional commonly used Chinese medicines and a familiar food for digestion and stomach. It is the mature fruit of the deciduous shrub hawthorn of the Rosaceae family. It is slightly warm in nature, sweet and sour in taste, and enters the spleen, stomach, and liver meridians. It is a traditional commonly used medicine for digestion, stagnation, and blood stasis.

Drinking hawthorn water has many benefits and has certain health-care effects. The most significant benefit is that it strengthens the spleen and appetite, helps digestion and relieves stagnation, and promotes digestion, especially the digestion of meat. In addition, the main component of hawthorn is flavonoids, which have obvious pharmacological effects on the cardiovascular system. Drinking hawthorn water can reduce triglycerides and serum cholesterol in the body and soften blood vessels. Hawthorn water also has a certain effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, especially for women who are prone to menstrual problems such as irregular menstruation and dysmenorrhea during menstruation. Hawthorn contains vitexin, which can effectively block the synthesis of nitrosamines in the body and has a certain preventive and therapeutic effect on cancer.

Although hawthorn water has many benefits, the amount of hawthorn water you drink each time should be moderate, and it should not be too concentrated. Do not drink hawthorn water on an empty stomach.