Chrysanthemum Gynostemma and Hawthorn Benefits

Chrysanthemum has the efficacy of dispersing wind-heat, calming liver-yang, clearing liver and improving eyesight (clearing liver fire to promote eyesight recovery), clearing heat and removing toxins (clearing heat and toxins from the body); Gynostemma has the efficacy of benefiting qi and strengthening the spleen (regulating the qi of the spleen and stomach), resolving phlegm to stop coughing, and clearing heat and removing toxins; hawthorn has the efficacy of eliminating food to strengthen the stomach (promoting digestion of food to enhance the function of the stomach and internal organs), and promoting the movement of qi and dispersing blood stasis. Chrysanthemum is sweet, bitter and slightly cold. It belongs to lung and liver meridians. Mostly used for the treatment of wind-heat colds, headache and dizziness, eye redness and swelling, eyesight, sores, canker sores and poisons and other diseases. Gynostemma is sweet, bitter and cold in nature. Attributed to the spleen, lung meridian. It can be used to treat spleen deficiency, symptoms such as fatigue (lack of spirit) and tiredness, lung deficiency and cough, and heat and toxicity (fire in the body is too exuberant). Hawthorn is sour, sweet and slightly warm. It belongs to spleen, stomach and liver meridians. It has the efficacy of eliminating food and strengthening stomach (promoting food digestion and strengthening the function of stomach and internal organs), promoting qi circulation and dispersing blood stasis, resolving turbidity and lowering fat (clearing the body’s dirty and turbid substances and reducing the excess fat in the body). It is used in treating meat and food stagnation, stomach and epigastric distension, dysentery and abdominal pain, blood stasis and menstrual closure, postpartum stagnation, stabbing pain in the heart and abdomen, chest paralysis (chest tightness and pain), heart pain, hernia pain, and hyperlipidemia. The adverse reactions of Chrysanthemum, Gynostemma and Hawthorn have not been clarified, pregnant women should not use Hawthorn, allergic persons are forbidden to use the above drugs, use under the guidance of a physician.