Can I eat hawthorn after taking Chinese medicine?

Hawthorn is usually made into hawthorn slices, hawthorn cakes, etc. Hawthorn is an acidic food. It has the effects of relieving indigestion and losing weight. So after taking Chinese medicine, can you use hawthorn to remove the bitter taste of the medicine in your mouth? Some foods can destroy the medicinal properties of traditional Chinese medicine. Next, let’s take a closer look at common questions such as whether you can eat hawthorn while taking Chinese medicine.

Whether you can eat hawthorn while taking Chinese medicine depends on what kind of Chinese medicine you are taking and the nature of your illness. Hawthorn slices contain multiple vitamins, tartaric acid, hawthorn acid, malic acid, and also contain lipase, which can promote the digestion of fatty foods and promote the secretion of gastric juice.

1. Hawthorn has the effect of nourishing the skin and reducing weight. Hawthorn contains vitamin C, carotene and other substances that can block and reduce the formation of free radicals, enhance the body's immunity, and have anti-aging and anti-cancer effects. Women who eat more hawthorn can eliminate body fat and reduce fat absorption. For women who love beauty, it can achieve the effect of beautifying and losing weight.

2. Hawthorn has the effects of lowering blood pressure, lowering blood lipids, anti-oxidation, enhancing immunity, removing harmful bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract, and preventing liver cancer. If men have fatty liver, they need to nourish and protect the liver. Hawthorn is the first choice for liver protection. Hawthorn can aid digestion and has the effect of nourishing the liver and removing fat.

3. Hawthorn can significantly lower serum cholesterol and triglycerides, and effectively prevent and treat atherosclerosis. Hawthorn can also strengthen the heart and prevent angina pectoris by enhancing myocardial contractility, increasing cardiac output, dilating coronary arteries, increasing coronary blood flow, and reducing myocardial oxygen consumption. In addition, the total flavonoids in hawthorn have the effect of dilating blood vessels and permanently lowering blood pressure.

4. Hawthorn has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and is an excellent food therapy for patients with blood stasis type dysmenorrhea. Patients with blood stasis type dysmenorrhea often experience lower abdominal pain on the 1st to 2nd day of menstruation or 1 to 2 days before menstruation. When the menstrual blood flows smoothly, the pain gradually decreases or disappears, and the menstrual blood is dark in color and accompanied by blood clots.

Through the above detailed introduction to the question of whether you can eat hawthorn while taking Chinese medicine, etc. For people who take Chinese medicine on a regular basis, it is not recommended to eat some food to remove the bitter taste of the medicine in their mouth after taking it. This is because some foods themselves will destroy the medicinal properties of traditional Chinese medicine, or have a counteracting effect on the medicinal ingredients in traditional Chinese medicine. Therefore, it is recommended not to eat other types of food after taking Chinese medicine.