Hawthorn has the efficacy of eliminating food and strengthening stomach (promoting food digestion, strengthening the function of stomach and internal organs), promoting qi circulation and dispersing blood stasis. Fried hawthorn has the efficacy of eliminating food and strengthening stomach, and is mostly used for treating stagnation of meat and food and diarrhea and abdominal pain; raw hawthorn has the efficacy of promoting qi circulation and dispersing blood stasis and is mostly used for treating stagnation of blood and blood circulation, and tingling of the heart and abdomen.
1. Raw hawthorn is warm in nature and enters the liver meridian and blood division (in the four periods of warm disease, it belongs to the most in-depth stage or disease position), it can move qi and blood, and has the function of activating blood circulation and eliminating blood stasis, and its efficacy favors the movement of qi and dispersal of blood stasis, and it is used in treating blood stasis with menstrual occlusion, postpartum stasis, and stabbing pains in the heart and abdomen.
2. Fried hawthorn’s efficacy favors elimination of food and stomach, for meat and food stagnation, stomach and epigastric distention and fullness, etc. Clinically, it is often shared with jiao shen qu and fried malt to be called jiao sanxian. For patients with dysentery and abdominal pain, hawthorn can be used to move qi and disperse knots (to make the body’s qi smooth and dissolve the knots) to relieve pain, and fried hawthorn can enhance the function of antidiarrheal to have a better therapeutic effect.
For the clinical application of hawthorn, it is necessary to carry out diagnosis and treatment in regular hospitals, and it is not recommended to take it on one’s own.