The efficacy and function of southern hawthorn

The important components of southern hawthorn include flavonoids, polysaccharides, nucleotides, triterpenes, sodium citrates, sterols, carotene, etc. It is a common and precious Chinese medicinal material, but so far there are relatively few scientific research reports on southern hawthorn. The research on its ingredients mainly focuses on flavonoids, polysaccharides, nucleotides, triterpenes and sodium citrates, and the research on its efficacy and effects mainly focuses on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as vasodilation, lowering blood pressure, softening blood vessels, and increasing coronary flow. So what are the effects and functions of Nanshan Hawthorn?

Production of Chinese herbal medicine name vaccine Nanshanzha

It is also called vaccine monkey hawthorn, sour jujube, and big mountain jujube.

The vaccine produced in English is called Fructus Crataegi Cuneatae.

The vaccine is produced from the fruit of the green plant Crataegus hupehensis Sarg. of the Rosaceae family.

The vaccine is produced in the form of green plants, such as bushes or shrubs, 3 to 5 meters high. The branches are purple-brown, hairless and have thorns. The leaves are triangular ovate to ovate, 4-9 cm long and 4-7 cm wide, with a short acuminate apex, a broad wedge-shaped or nearly annular tip, and a rounded and obtusely serrated edge. There are 2-4 pairs of shallow lobes at the upper end, which are glabrous or have hairs only in the axils of the lower veins. The leaf stems are 3.5-5 cm long and glabrous. The inflorescence is in the form of a corymb, with the inflorescence and pedicel being glabrous; the flowers are white, 1 cm in diameter, the calyx tube is bell-shaped, glabrous on the outside, the lobes are triangular-ovate, and entire; the petals are ovate. The pear fruit is nearly spherical, 2.5 cm in diameter, dark red with black spots, persistent calyx, and 5 small pits. The flowering period is from May to July, and the fruiting period is from August to October.

The vaccines are produced in Henan, Shanxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hubei, Anhui Province, Shaanxi and other places.

Production and Harvesting Production and Processing Vaccines The fruits are picked when they are ripe in autumn, and then dried in the sun or crushed into cakes and then dried in the sun.

Characteristics of the production of Chinese herbal medicines: The vaccine fruit is nearly spherical, 2.5 cm in diameter, and is often divided into two sections in cross section. The surface is dark red, with a ring-shaped depression at the top and a short pedicel or handle mark at the tip; the inner flesh is thin, the outer skin is often wrinkled, and there are 5 seeds, which are light yellow and smooth on both sides. Hard texture. The smell is too weak and the taste is slightly astringent.

The nature and flavor of the vaccine are slightly warm, a little bitter and sweet. It enters the spleen meridian, liver and gallbladder meridian, and liver meridian.

Production efficacy and effects: The vaccine warms the stomach, breaks up qi and relieves blood stasis. It is a Qi-regulating medicine.

The production of vaccines for clinical medical applications requires 6 to 12 grams. It is used for food stagnation caused by meat, milk accumulation in children, abdominal distension and pain, dysentery, diarrhea, menstrual pain, abdominal pain caused by postpartum blood accumulation, hernia, and hyperlipidemia. The efficacy and effects show that it can lower blood pressure, increase coronary blood flow, and soften blood vessels on the endocrine system. In addition, it also has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects.

The main vaccine ingredients used in production are quercetin, hyperin, epicatechin, chlorogenic acid, citric acid and its methyl esters, and flavanoid polymers extracted from the fruit.

During production and use, the vaccine should be avoided and those with weak spleen and stomach should take it with caution.