Hawthorn is a kind of Chinese herbal medicine with the same origin of medicine and food, with the efficacy of eliminating food and tonifying stomach, resolving turbidity and lowering fat, and promoting qi and dissipating stasis, mainly used for meat and food stagnation, diarrhea and dysentery abdominal pain, blood stasis and menstrual closure, postpartum stasis, and chest paralysis and cardiac pain, and it can be consumed directly, or soaked in water to make hawthorn cake, etc. When used as a medicine, the impurities and pulp are usually removed and dried. When hawthorn is used as medicine, the pulp is usually removed from impurities and kernel, sliced and dried in the sun, which has the efficacy of eliminating food and strengthening stomach, resolving turbidity and lowering fat, and promoting circulation of qi and dissipating blood stasis, and is mostly used in clinic to treat stagnation of meat and food, diarrhea and abdominal pain, stasis of blood and blood circulation, postpartum stasis and obstruction and thoracic paralysis and cardiac pain, etc, but it should be paid attention to the caution of the patients with spleen and stomach weakness when it is in use. Generally speaking, ripe hawthorn can be eaten directly after washing with sour flavor, or it can be sliced and dried to make water for drinking. If you feel the flavor of hawthorn is sour, you can add appropriate amount of sugar, honey and water to boil hawthorn cake after washing and removing the kernel. Hawthorn can be eaten in moderation, but it is also a kind of Chinese herbal medicine with unique pharmacological effects, and should not be eaten in large quantities to avoid causing discomfort.