What are the benefits of Hawthorn fruit?
Hawthorn (Latin name Crataegus pinnatifida) has important medicinal value. Hawthorn contains carbohydrates, protein, fat, vitamin C, carotene, starch, malic acid, citric acid, calcium and iron and other substances, hawthorn for blood pressure, lowering blood lipids, strengthening the heart and resisting arrhythmia. Vitexin, a flavonoid compound in hawthorn, is a drug with strong anti-cancer effect. Hawthorn has certain inhibitory effects on the growth, proliferation, invasion and metastasis of cancer cells in vivo.
Hawthorn fruit has many benefits
- Promote digestion
Hawthorn can promote the secretion of digestive enzymes in the stomach and promote digestion. The lipase it contains can promote the decomposition and digestion of fat; it contains a variety of organic acids and vitamin C, which can improve the activity of pepsin and promote the digestion of protein. Hawthorn has a certain regulatory effect on gastrointestinal function, inhibiting the hyperactive rabbit duodenal smooth muscle, and slightly increasing the contraction effect on the relaxed rat gastric smooth muscle.
- Lowering blood lipids
Hawthorn has obvious hypocholesterolemic effect on young rats. The reduction rate can reach 30.8%. It is also effective in the treatment of hypertriglyceridemia. Its hypolipidemic effect, through the study of cholesterol synthase (HMGR) and its decomposition rate-limiting enzyme 7α-hydroxylase, found that hawthorn reduced the activity of HMGR in guinea pig liver cell microsomes and small intestinal mucosa by about 60%, while No agonistic effect on hepatocyte microsomal 7α-hydroxylase activity. Description mainly inhibited the synthesis of cholesterol.
- Cardiac effect
Hawthorn can increase coronary blood flow, reduce myocardial oxygen consumption and myocardial oxygen utilization. Increases myocardial contractility, increases cardiac output, and slows heart rhythm.
- Antibacterial effect
Hawthorn has strong antibacterial effect on Shigella, Fuchs, Sonnei and other Shigella and Escherichia coli. It also has antibacterial effect on Staphylococcus aureus, Beta Streptococcus, Escherichia coli, Variant Bacillus, Bacillus anthracis, Diphtheria Bacillus, Typhoid Bacillus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, etc. Generally, the effect on gram-positive bacteria is stronger than that of gram-negative bacteria. The processing method seems to have no effect on the antibacterial effect, and the antibacterial effect of raw coke hawthorn on Shigella, Proteus and Escherichia coli has no significant difference.
- Immune enhancing effect
Experiments confirmed that Hawthorn injection has the function of significantly enhancing the humoral immunity and cellular immunity of rabbits, and significantly enhanced the serum lysozyme content, serum hemagglutination antibody height, the formation rate of E rosettes of cardiac blood T lymphocytes and the transformation rate of blood T lymphocytes. effect.
- Inhibit platelet aggregation
Experiments show that hawthorn water decoction can inhibit platelet aggregation to a certain extent in vitro, and its IC50 is 1.388%.
- Effects on uterine contractions
Hawthorn has the effect of contracting the uterus, promoting the recovery of the uterus, and the effect of contracting the uterus can promote the discharge of blood clots in the uterine cavity. These effects are the pharmacological basis for its use in the treatment of postpartum stasis abdominal pain.
- Other functions
Under the condition of pH 3.5, the hawthorn was reacted at a constant temperature of 310K for 0.5, 1, 2 and 3 hours, and the blocking rates of the synthesis of diethyl nitrosamine were 94.8%, 92.7%, 93.5% and 94.6%. In addition, this product has deworming, antispasmodic, sedative and other effect.
