Old Zhou Hawthorn Cake

Old Zhou Hawthorn Cake

　　Hawthorn cake is a delicious dessert made from hawthorn juice, mixed with white sugar and agar, then frozen into slabs. It has a smooth and delicate texture, sweet and cool to the taste, making it a great medicinal food. With a mildly sweet and slightly sour flavor, it offers therapeutic benefits such as aiding digestion, relieving stagnation, and promoting blood circulation.

　　　1. Hawthorn helps prevent cardiovascular diseases by dilating blood vessels, increasing coronary blood flow, improving heart vitality, stimulating the central nervous system, lowering blood pressure and cholesterol, softening blood vessels, as well as having diuretic and sedative effects; 2. Hawthorn acid also has a cardiotonic effect and is beneficial for age-related heart conditions; 3. It stimulates appetite and aids digestion, especially effective against meat stagnation, which is why it's used in many digestive aids; 4. Hawthorn promotes blood circulation and removes blood stasis, helping to relieve localized congestion and providing auxiliary treatment for bruises and injuries; 5. Hawthorn has a contracting effect on the uterus, can induce labor in pregnant women nearing childbirth, and aids in postpartum uterine recovery; 6. The flavonoids, vitamin C, and carotene contained in hawthorn can block and reduce the generation of free radicals, enhance immunity, and have anti-aging and anti-cancer properties; 7. Hawthorn contains components that help calm wheezing, resolve phlegm, inhibit bacteria, and treat abdominal pain and diarrhea.

　　 Therapeutic Effects

　　　　Hawthorn has a sweet taste and slightly warm, acidic nature, and enters the spleen, stomach, and liver meridians; it functions to aid digestion, strengthen the stomach, promote blood circulation, resolve stasis, and expel parasites; it is mainly used to treat meat stagnation, infantile milk and food retention, stomach and abdominal pain, blood stasis-induced amenorrhea, postpartum blood stasis, stabbing heart and abdominal pain, hernia pain, and hyperlipidemia. 1. Digestive aid and stagnation relief: Used for indigestion, bloating and abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, and diarrhea. Particularly effective against meat stagnation; 2. Stasis resolution and mass dispersal: This product can enter the blood aspect to disperse and eliminate stasis, and is suitable for conditions such as postpartum blood stasis abdominal pain, stagnant stasis swelling and pain, and blood stasis obstructing the meridians.