Description:
Hawthorn(crataegus pinnatifida Bunge), and red Mountain fruit, Rosaceae crataegus, deciduous tree, up to 6 meters high. In Shanxi, Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejing, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, Hebei and other places are distributed.
Stone fruit, nuclear firm, flesh thin, slightly sour taste. Friut can raw or for pressrved friut cake, dry business.
How can medicine, is China unique of drug fruit and with species, has drop lipid, and blood pressure, and strong heart , and anti-rhythm not align, role, while is hearth spleen apptizer, and digestion od delay, and huoxue phlegm off medicine, on chest diaphragm spleen full, and hernia, and blod sirt and amenorrhea, syndrome has is good of effect. Hawthorn flavonoids vitexin, are antivcancer on inhibiting cancer growth, proliferation and invasion and metastasis has a role.
Functions:
1. Improves blood supply to the heart by dialtint the coronary blood vessels.
2. Inhibits the angiotension converting enzyme(ACE), reducing the amount of stress placed on the heart.
3. Improves metabolic processes in the heart.
4. Prevents atherosclerosis(hardening of the arteries).
5. Lower blood pressure.
Application:
1. Applied in food field, it is widely used as functional food additive.
2.Applied in health product field, it owns the functions of strengthening stomach, promoting digestion and preventing postpartum syndrome.
3. Applied in pharmaceufical field, it is frequently used in treating coronary heart disease and angina pectoris. etc.
