Hawthorn itself has a certain blood lipid-lowering effect, and can be combined with Shenquan and so on to make water to drink. However, for people with high blood lipid, it is generally recommended to use blood lipid-lowering drugs as prescribed by doctors, and Chinese herbs in water can generally only assist in improving the symptoms of high blood lipid.
Hawthorn has the efficacy of eliminating food and strengthening stomach, promoting circulation of Qi and dispersing blood stasis, resolving turbidity and lowering fat (cleansing the body of impurities and reducing excess fat), and can be used for stagnation of meat and food, distension of stomach and epigastric cavity, diarrhea and abdominal pain, menstrual closure of stagnant blood, postpartum stagnation, pectoral paralysis (stuffy pain in the chest), cardiac pain, and hyperlipidemia, etc.. It should be taken with caution for those with weak spleen and stomach, and pregnant women.
Shenqu has the effect of eliminating food and harmonizing the stomach, and can be used to treat food stagnation. Combined with hawthorn, it can help lowering blood fat and improving hyperlipidemia. However, the effective dosage of both of them is limited, and it is difficult to achieve the therapeutic effect.
If the blood fat is particularly high, it is recommended to use standardized lipid-lowering drugs under the guidance of a doctor.