Hawthorn is a fruit of the Rosaceae family with a sweet and sour taste and a high nutritional and medical value. Hawthorn is rich in many types of nutrients such as sugar, protein, vitamin C, carotene and trace elements such as calcium, iron and phosphorus. According to Chinese medicine, hawthorn is slightly warm, sour and sweet, and enters the spleen, stomach and liver meridians. It has the function of strengthening the spleen and appetite, eliminating food stagnation, activating blood circulation and resolving phlegm, especially helping the digestion of meat, and is a medicinal food. Studies have confirmed that hawthorn can improve and promote cholesterol excretion and lower blood lipids, which has a significant protective effect on cardiovascular function damage caused by hyperlipidemia. In addition, hawthorn has the ability to dilate blood vessels, improve myocardial ischemia, lower blood pressure, reduce blood viscosity and antioxidant effects. Therefore, hawthorn is not only suitable for patients with coronary heart disease, but also an ideal health food for healthy people to prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases. Note 1: Hawthorn should not be eaten on an empty stomach, especially for patients with stomach problems. Hawthorn contains a lot of organic acids, fruit acids, hawthorn acids, citric acid, etc. Eating on an empty stomach will increase stomach acid and cause adverse stimulation to the gastric mucosa, which may cause heartburn and stomach pain. 2. Hawthorn should not be consumed in excess. The acid in hawthorn is not good for dental health, so the consumption of hawthorn should be restrained and teeth should be brushed immediately after consumption to avoid tooth acid, toothache and even tooth decay. The tannic acid contained in raw hawthorn combined with stomach acid can easily form stomach stones, which are difficult to digest, so people with weak gastrointestinal function should be more cautious when consuming raw hawthorn. 3. Hawthorn products should be eaten sparingly. Many hawthorn products such as hawthorn chips and pectin are processed with a large amount of sugar and should not be consumed by diabetics. In addition, children who eat too much will also keep their blood sugar at a high level, without a sense of hunger, which affects eating, and long-term consumption in large quantities will lead to malnutrition, anemia, etc. 4. Pregnant women should not eat hawthorn. Because hawthorn has the effect of breaking blood and dispersing silt, can stimulate the uterus contraction, pregnant women may be induced to eat miscarriage. So how to eat hawthorn to play its cardiovascular protective effect? Here we will introduce several hawthorn meals that can be made at home on a daily basis. Food therapy recommendation 1, ginseng fruit drink Ingredients: dried hawthorn slices, salvia 10 grams each Production: put into the appropriate amount of water, boil until boiling, then pour the water and medicine together into a thermos cup to drink as tea Efficacy: blood circulation, reduce blood lipids Note: ulcer disease, excessive stomach acid, should not be eaten or a small amount of food. 2, hawthorn tea ingredients: dry hawthorn 15 grams, chrysanthemum 10 grams, cassia 10 grams Production: put into the appropriate amount of water, boil until boiling, and then pour the water and drugs together into a thermos cup to drink as tea Efficacy: lowering lipids, lowering blood pressure, clear the liver and eyes, laxative Note: ulcer disease, excessive stomach acid, spleen and stomach cold people should not eat or a small amount of food. 3, hawthorn and lotus leaf porridge Materials: 15 grams of dried hawthorn slices, 10 grams of lotus leaves, 100 grams of rice, sugar appropriate amount of production: clean rice, remove the mud and sand, add lotus leaves, hawthorn and appropriate amount of water, set on the fire boil, and then cook for 30 minutes, remove the lotus leaves, add sugar and stir well that is ready Effect: lowering lipids, lowering blood pressure, clear heat and water Note: ulcer disease, excessive stomach acid, spleen and stomach deficiency, diabetic patients Not suitable for consumption or in small quantities.