Kidney stones in Chinese medicine are called Shiliang (discharge of gravel during urination, or sudden interruption of urination, pain in the urethra, intolerable pain in the lower back and abdomen), and you can eat hawthorn for Shiliang. Hawthorn has the efficacy of eliminating food and resolving stagnation (digesting stagnant food), and also has the efficacy of moving qi and dispersing blood stasis. There is no mutual relationship between hawthorn and lithiasis, so lithiasis can eat hawthorn.
Hawthorn is sweet and sour, slightly warm and not hot, good at eliminating food and resolving stagnation, and is the key medicine for digesting greasy meat and food stagnation. Hawthorn is often used to treat stagnation of the epigastrium (abdomen), belching (hiccup), abdominal pain and loose stools (feces are thin and unformed).
Hawthorn also enters the blood division of the liver meridian (the deepest stage or location of the disease among the four periods of warm disease, namely Wei Qi and Ying Blood), and has the function of activating blood circulation, eliminating blood stasis and relieving pain (removing blood stasis in order to relieve pain). It is often used with Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong, Peach Kernel and Safflower to treat pain in the chest and ribs (the chest and ribs).
In addition, hawthorn can also be used to treat diarrhea and dysentery abdominal pain, using burnt hawthorn alone, or with Huanglian and Muxiang to detoxify, move qi and guide stagnation of the same product. It can also be used with orange kernel and lychee kernel to treat hernia pain.
Caution should be exercised if the spleen and stomach are weak and there is no stagnation. If there is a need for medication, it is necessary to use under the guidance of a doctor to identify the evidence, and not blindly use their own medication, so as to avoid adverse consequences.