What are the benefits and effects of drinking hawthorn infused water?
Drinking hawthorn-infused water offers benefits such as appetite stimulation, digestion improvement, blood circulation enhancement, cough relief, and lipid-lowering effects. Patients can consume it in moderation to avoid overconsumption.
1. Appetite Stimulation and Digestion Improvement
Hawthorn has a sour taste and, consumed in moderation, can promote gastric acid secretion, enhance digestion and absorption, and help alleviate symptoms such as meat accumulation, abdominal distension, abdominal pain, and diarrhea.
2. Blood Circulation Enhancement
Hawthorn is a warm-natured food that promotes qi and blood circulation, removes blood stasis, and helps alleviate symptoms caused by blood stasis, including menstrual disorders, postpartum abdominal pain due to blood stagnation, stabbing pains in the chest and abdomen, and chest pain.
3. Cough Relief
Hawthorn also has the effect of relieving cough and expectoration, and drinking hawthorn-infused water can improve symptoms such as cough and expectoration.
4. Lipid-lowering and Turbidity-reducing
Hawthorn can reduce cholesterol and triglyceride levels in the blood, improve hyperlipidemia, and help prevent diseases such as coronary atherosclerotic heart disease and hypertension. Additionally, it has astringent and antidiarrheal effects.
If patients consume excessive hawthorn-infused water, it may lead to excessive gastric acid secretion, which can easily erode the gastric mucosa, causing symptoms such as gastric ulcers, stomach pain, and bloating, adverse to health. If patients experience discomfort after drinking hawthorn-infused water, they should seek medical attention promptly.
