The best medicine for lowering blood lipids! Wu Mingzhu: Drink hawthorn and winter melon soup after meals

Winter is a high-incidence season for cardiovascular diseases, especially when cold air masses arrive and the temperature drops suddenly, which is more likely to cause stroke or blood vessel blockage. Chinese medicine practitioners suggest that hawthorn is rich in organic acids and vitamin C, which can lower blood lipids and triglycerides, help maintain blood vessel elasticity, and prevent cardiovascular disease. It is a gold medal medicine for lowering blood lipids in the cold winter.

Hawthorn helps lower blood pressure and promote cholesterol excretion

Female Chinese medicine practitioner Wu Mingzhu pointed out that hawthorn is a natural lipid-lowering drug, which mainly contains hawthorn acid, citric acid, lipolytic acid, vitamin C, flavonoids, carbohydrates and other ingredients. It has the disease prevention and health-preserving effects of dilating blood vessels, improving microcirculation, lowering blood pressure, promoting cholesterol excretion, and lowering blood lipids.

Hawthorn contains fatty acids, which can promote fat digestion. It also contains a variety of organic acids and vitamin C, which can promote protein digestion and absorption. At the same time, its sour taste can stimulate the taste buds, increase appetite, regulate gastrointestinal function, and reduce the risk of anorexia.

Hawthorn prevents influenza and lotus leaves help lose weight

Chinese medicine practitioner Wu Mingzhu emphasized that winter is the peak season for influenza, and eating more hawthorn is the simplest and most effective way to enhance the body's resistance. Because the flavonoids, vitamin C, carotene and other substances contained in hawthorn can block and reduce the generation of free radicals and enhance the body's immunity.

For obese people, it is recommended to choose hawthorn and lotus leaves to make tea, because the combination of the two can aid digestion and lose weight; because hawthorn has the effects of lowering blood lipids, lowering blood pressure, and dilating blood vessels, while lotus leaves have the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, removing dampness and blood stasis, and promoting diuresis and laxatives, and can also effectively increase satiety and prevent fat absorption.

Winter health care, weight loss, qi-boosting, cold-removing, metabolism drink

Ingredients: 3 qian of Astragalus, 3 qian of Hawthorn, 2 qian of Polygonum multiflorum, 3 qian of Ginger, 1000CC of Water

Method: Rinse the Chinese medicine, put them into a pot, add 1000ml of water, boil, then turn to medium-low heat and simmer for 10 to 15 minutes, then drink it when it is warm.

Chinese medicine practitioners remind us that hawthorn is an acidic food and should not be eaten on an empty stomach or for too long.

Hawthorn lowers blood lipids and prevents cardiovascular disease

1. Hawthorn and winter melon soup:

Preparation: 25 grams of dried hawthorn or 15 grams of fresh hawthorn, 100 grams of winter melon. Slice the hawthorn and winter melon with the skin, add appropriate amount of water and boil for 20 minutes.

Efficacy: Hawthorn can promote the excretion of cholesterol, lower blood pressure and blood lipids. Winter melon is the only melon and vegetable that does not contain fat. The succinic acid it contains can inhibit the conversion of carbohydrates into fat, and helps prevent fat accumulation in the body and increased blood lipids. Drinking this soup regularly can help lower blood lipids.

2. Fungus and Hawthorn Porridge:

Method: Take 10 grams of fungus, 30 grams of hawthorn, and 100 grams of polished rice. Soak the fungus, wash it, put it in a casserole together with hawthorn and glutinous rice, add appropriate amount of water, cook it into porridge, and take it on an empty stomach as breakfast.

Efficacy: Fungus has the effects of anti-platelet aggregation, lowering blood lipids and preventing blood cholesterol deposition; Hawthorn has the effects of strengthening the heart, dilating blood vessels, increasing coronary blood flow, improving blood circulation and promoting cholesterol excretion and lowering blood lipids; in addition, japonica rice is good for the stomach, and regular consumption of this porridge is effective in preventing and treating hyperlipidemia and atherosclerosis.

Hawthorn helps digestion and is best eaten after meals

Chinese medicine practitioner Wu Mingzhu emphasized that hawthorn tea and hawthorn water have the effect of breaking up qi, so if you drink too much of them on a regular basis, it will deplete the qi in your body, especially if pregnant women take them, it will cause damage to their own health and the development of the fetus. In addition, hawthorn can enhance uterine contraction, which may cause miscarriage or premature birth in pregnant women, so pregnant women should not take hawthorn.

At the same time, hawthorn is an acidic food and should not be eaten on an empty stomach or too long. It is best to eat it after a meal. Most people should not eat more than 6 cents a day. In addition, pregnant women should avoid eating hawthorn to avoid inducing miscarriage; secondly, people with weak spleen and stomach, or low blood sugar, and children should not eat too much hawthorn.