Drinking Hawthorn Pericarp Water is not recommended for people with cold spleen and stomach.
Hawthorn is effective in eliminating food and stagnation, promoting circulation of Qi and dispersing blood stasis, and is mainly used for treating dietary stagnation, stagnation of blood in the chest and abdominal pain, menstrual cramps, etc. It is not suitable for people with a weak and cold spleen and stomach without stagnation. Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae has the efficacy of regulating qi and strengthening the spleen, drying dampness and resolving phlegm (expelling dampness and resolving phlegm by drying dampness), and is used for treating stagnant qi in the spleen and stomach, dampness-phlegm and cold-phlegm coughs.
From the efficacy of hawthorn and Chenpi, it can be seen that hawthorn and Chenpi do not have the efficacy of warming the spleen and stomach, and neither of them is suitable to be used for the evidence of spleen and stomach deficiency and coldness, so it is not recommended that people with deficiency and coldness of the spleen and stomach drink hawthorn and Chenpi water.
Therefore, it is not recommended for people with cold spleen and stomach to drink hawthorn peel water. People with cold spleen and stomach can take traditional Chinese medicines that have the effect of warming spleen and yang, strengthening the spleen and stomach, such as ginseng, dried ginger, atractylodes macrocephala, astragalus and so on, but they need to take them only after professional Chinese medicine practitioners have identified that they really belong to the cold spleen and stomach and they should avoid taking them by themselves.