Hawthorn "cleanses" excess fat

Excess fat is not only the "culprit" causing obesity but also the cause of many diseases.

Hawthorn (apple) contains almost all the nutritional components of fruit, especially high levels of organic acids, vitamin C and calcium. Hawthorn has a delicious sweet and sour taste, can be eaten raw, processed or sliced, dried, soaked in wine. Hawthorn has medicinal value, helps strengthen the spleen and stomach, aids digestion, consumes excess fat, has long been used as an ingredient in foods to reduce obesity, especially to slim down, which girls love.

Uses of hawthorn

1- Make thin

Hawthorn is slightly warm, sweet and sour in taste, enters the spleen, stomach, and liver meridians, and has the effect of strengthening the spleen, digesting food, dissolving blood stasis, and reducing fat. Women who regularly eat hawthorn help promote digestion, remove waste from the body in time, thereby effectively preventing fat from accumulating under the skin. In addition, hawthorn contains a lot of calcium, helping to strengthen the bones of girls. It is not an exaggeration to say that hawthorn is a "precious medicine for shaping the figure" of women.

2- Remove excess fat

Because hawthorn contains many nutritional ingredients that help to lose weight effectively such as protein, vitamins, pectin, organic acids, it has the effect of eliminating excess fat in the body. Excess fat is not only the "culprit" causing obesity but also the cause of many diseases. In particular, when the amount of visceral fat increases, it will reduce insulin sensitivity, creating a state of insulin resistance, which is an important cause of abnormal metabolism, leading to diabetes, dyslipidemia, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease.

3- Promote digestion

Because it contains many organic acids such as crataegic acid and fat-dissolving enzymes, after being introduced into the stomach, hawthorn helps enhance the effects of digestive enzymes, promote digestion, and help metabolize cholesterol; it also helps secrete gastric juice and bile. Therefore, people who feel full after eating meat or fatty foods should take a little hawthorn to help with digestion. This spleen-tonifying and stagnation-reducing function of hawthorn is very beneficial in reducing weight and supporting the treatment of secondary obesity.

4- Increase resistance

Compared to other people, obese people have weak resistance and are susceptible to diseases caused by obesity. Many women who want to become "slim" quickly have sought unscientific methods of losing weight, resulting in skinny bodies and serious damage to their health. Please note that our principle of losing weight is always: Lose weight on a scientific basis and ensure health. Because it contains many nutrients such as vitamins and flavonoids, hawthorn helps to strengthen the stomach and intestines, reduce fat and increase the body's immunity.

5- Sunstroke prevention

The body of an obese person “hates heat” because it accumulates too much fat and heat and cannot easily release heat. Hawthorn has the effect of preventing heatstroke and creating a refreshing feeling; obese women in the hot season should eat hawthorn properly not only to prevent heatstroke but also to lose weight.

Cooking

1- Sauce dish

Buy raw hawthorn, remove the stem and seeds, put in a pot and add water, cook and stir to avoid sticking to the bottom of the pot, until it is slightly thickened, then turn off the stove, add sugar and stir well, store in a jar and cover tightly to complete. Raw hawthorn is not always available, so you can buy dried ones. Hawthorn can be used to cook sweet soup, porridge or steeped in boiling water to drink instead of tea, it has a very good slimming effect.

2- Fat loss tea

30g hawthorn (60g raw), 100g glutinous rice, enough rock sugar. Wash the hawthorn and put it in a clay pot to cook, boil to get the juice. Wash the glutinous rice, add enough water, after boiling, turn down the heat, simmer the sweet soup until soft, then add the hawthorn juice, rock sugar, cook for another 5 minutes to complete.

Note: When cooking sweet soup, you can use hawthorn juice to cook; hawthorn and sticky rice can also be cooked directly, but cook the sticky rice first, then add the hawthorn.

3- Tea makes you slim

100g hawthorn, 15g chrysanthemum, 5g licorice, enough rock sugar. Pour 1 liter of water to boil. Discard the residue. Add rock sugar and it's done.

Note: Oriental medicine believes that hawthorn only “digests” but does not “nourish”, so people with high gastric juice secretion should use it with caution; people with gastrointestinal ulcers should not use it. In addition, while taking tonics, avoid using hawthorn.

According to Suckhoedoisong