Can pregnant women eat hawthorn slices in the early stage?

Can pregnant women eat dried hawthorn? During pregnancy, most women experience pregnancy reactions such as food pickiness, poor appetite, nausea, vomiting, etc., and they like to eat sweet and sour foods such as hawthorn. So can pregnant women eat hawthorn? Experts remind that although hawthorn fruit and various fruit products are sweet and sour, pregnant women should eat them with caution or avoid them. The actual reasons are explained in detail below.

Dried hawthorn is a food made from hawthorn fruit, also called hawthorn cake, which has the effect of strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach. Dried hawthorn is in the shape of ring-shaped slices with bright colors, uniform thickness, and a sweet and sour taste. Eating it can help promote salivation, strengthen the spleen and appetite, promote digestion, and lower blood pressure and blood sugar. However, since dried hawthorn contains hawthorn ingredients, pregnant women still need to eat it with caution. Generally speaking, pregnant women in the early stages of pregnancy who have signs of threatened miscarriage are advised not to eat hawthorn or dried hawthorn.

Chinese medicine believes that hawthorn fruit "only consumes but does not replenish". During pregnancy, due to changes in the body's female hormones, the gastrointestinal function of pregnant women is reduced to a certain extent. Eating more hawthorn fruit can easily cause indigestion and gastric juice. Hawthorn fruit can stimulate the contraction of uterine smooth muscle. Pregnant women who eat a lot of hawthorn fruit may cause miscarriage. Therefore, pregnant women should eat hawthorn fruit with caution.

Hawthorn fruit has the effect of stimulating gastric juice secretion. During pregnancy, the levels of estrogen and estrogen in the pregnant woman's body rise, and the continued growth of the fetus is pressed on the stomach, which makes the pregnant woman's heartburn more serious. Eating more hawthorn at this time will rapidly increase gastric juice and increase its concentration, which can easily cause nausea, vomiting and acid reflux, and in severe cases can cause peptic ulcer.

Hawthorn fruit contains a lot of salicylic acid, which has the effect of astringency and stimulating gastric mucosa. The gastrointestinal function of pregnant women is weak during pregnancy. Eating too much hawthorn can easily reduce the digestion and absorption capacity and cause indigestion. Fresh hawthorn fruit contains a lot of tannic acid. If consumed in excess, tannic acid can easily combine with minerals in the human body to form stomach stones.