Reasons why pregnant women cannot eat hawthorn

When everyone hears the word "hawthorn fruit", the first thing that comes to mind is its sour taste, and then it will naturally secrete saliva. And everyone also knows that pregnant women like to eat sour things during pregnancy. But expectant mothers should remember not to eat hawthorn. Let’s discuss why you can’t eat hawthorn during pregnancy.

Eating hawthorn can promote uterine contractions for pregnant women. However, if pregnant women eat too much hawthorn, it will increase the risk of miscarriage, so it is not suitable for them to eat too much. If you accidentally eat hawthorn fruit during pregnancy, you don't need to worry too much if it is a small amount. You can get pregnant again, just don't take it afterwards. If you take too much dried hawthorn, it may cause miscarriage. You need to pay attention. If you have any abnormal symptoms, you should go to the hospital for diagnosis in time.

The effects of hawthorn include: hawthorn fruit can clear the brain, lower blood lipids and lower blood pressure. It works very well. Clinical experiments have confirmed that hawthorn fruit can significantly reduce blood cholesterol and triglycerides, and effectively prevent aortic atherosclerosis; hawthorn fruit can also clear the brain and prevent angina pectoris by increasing cardiac contraction, increasing preload, dilating coronary blood vessels, increasing coronary blood volume, and reducing cardiac oxygen consumption. In addition, the flavonoids in hawthorn fruit have the effect of softening blood vessels and lowering blood pressure permanently.

Taboos in taking hawthorn berry: Hawthorn berry cannot be taken on an empty stomach. Because hawthorn fruit contains a lot of citric acid, salicylic acid, hawthorn acid, citric acid, etc., taking it on an empty stomach will increase gastric juice, cause adverse stimulation to the gastric mucosa, make the stomach bloating and heartburn, if taken on an empty stomach will increase the feeling of hunger and aggravate the original stomach pain. In addition, the tannic acid contained in raw hawthorn can easily form gastric stones when combined with gastric juice, which cannot be digested and absorbed. If gastric stones cannot be digested and absorbed for a long time, they will cause gastric ulcers, gastric bleeding and even gastric perforation. Therefore, you should try to avoid eating hawthorn fruit raw, especially those with weak stomachs should be more cautious. Doctors recommend that it is best to boil hawthorn fruit before eating.