Hyperlipidemia does not have a unified name in Chinese medicine, and belongs to the category of “phlegm turbidity” and “blood stasis”. Hawthorn tea is commonly used as a tea substitute for lowering blood lipids.
Hawthorn is sour, sweet and slightly warm in nature, and belongs to the spleen, stomach and liver meridians with the efficacy of eliminating food and strengthening the stomach, promoting circulation of Qi and dispersing blood stasis, resolving turbidity and lowering lipids (cleansing the body of impurities and reducing excess fat in the body).
Hawthorn can be used for meat and food stagnation, stomach and epigastric distension, diarrhea and abdominal pain, blood stasis and menstrual closure, postpartum stagnation, stabbing pain in heart and abdomen, chest palsy (chest tightness and pain), heart pain, hernia pain, hyperlipidemia. People with excessive gastric acid secretion should be cautious of using hawthorn.
Therefore, hawthorn can be used to treat stagnation of meat and food, gastric distension and hyperlipidemia.
Attention to Chinese medicine tea drink because of the process of Chinese medicine brewing water, the active ingredients precipitation is limited, can not replace the Chinese medicine to play the efficacy of the treatment of disease, it is recommended that if you feel unwell, you should consult a doctor in a timely manner, under the guidance of a physician to use medicines, do not blindly use medicines on your own, so as to avoid delaying the condition.