Hawthorn (Latin name Crataegus pinnatifida) has important medicinal value. Hawthorn contains carbohydrates, protein, fat, vitamin C, carotene, starch, malic acid, citric acid, calcium and iron and other substances, hawthorn extract for blood pressure, lowering blood lipids, strengthening the heart and resisting arrhythmia. Vitexin, a flavonoid compound in hawthorn, is a drug with strong anti-cancer effect. Hawthorn extract has certain inhibitory effects on the growth, proliferation, invasion and metastasis of cancer cells in vivo.

Hawthorn Extract Details

【Product Name】 Hawthorn Fruit Extract

【Source of extraction】 This product is Crataegus pinnatifida Bge, a plant of the Rosaceae family. Or mountain red C.pinnatifidaBge. Var.major N. E. Br. , Wild Hawthorn C. cuneata S. et Z. of dried ripe fruit (with pits) extract.

【Active ingredient】 Flavone

【Specification】 Total flavonoids>5%  10%  15%;  10:1

【Detection method】 HPLC

【Properties】 Brown-red or brown-yellow fine powder

【Mesh number】 100% pass 80 mesh

【Chemical composition】 Contains epicatechin [(-)-epicatechin], quercetin, hyperin, chlorogenic acid, caffeic acid, crataegolic acid, Chrysanthemum acid, citric acid, ursolic acid, oleanolic acid, amygdalin, etc.

【Main components】 At present, there are more than 30 kinds of flavonoids isolated from hawthorn, mainly including flavonoid glycosides containing carbon bonds, flavonols and their glycosides, dioxoflavone glycosides, and polymeric flavonoids. Another important component is triterpenoids.

【Functions and indications】It can strongly inhibit thyroid peroxidase, anti-cancer, antihypertensive, antibacterial, invigorating blood circulation, reducing blood lipids, inhibiting platelet aggregation and antispasmodic effects.

【Validity period】 Two years

  • What is hawthorn extract good for？
  1. Promote digestion

Hawthorn extract can promote the secretion of digestive enzymes in the stomach and promote digestion. The lipase it contains can promote the decomposition and digestion of fat; it contains a variety of organic acids and vitamin C, which can improve the activity of pepsin and promote the digestion of protein. Hawthorn extract has a certain regulatory effect on gastrointestinal function, inhibiting the hyperactive rabbit duodenal smooth muscle, and slightly increasing the contraction effect on the relaxed rat gastric smooth muscle.

  1. Lowering blood lipids

Hawthorn has obvious hypocholesterolemic effect on young rats. The reduction rate can reach 30.8%. It is also effective in the treatment of hypertriglyceridemia. Its hypolipidemic effect, through the study of cholesterol synthase (HMGR) and its decomposition rate-limiting enzyme 7α-hydroxylase, found that hawthorn reduced the activity of HMGR in guinea pig liver cell microsomes and small intestinal mucosa by about 60%, while No agonistic effect on hepatocyte microsomal 7α-hydroxylase activity. Description mainly inhibited the synthesis of cholesterol.

  1. Cardiac effect

Hawthorn extract and its total flavonoids can increase coronary blood flow, reduce myocardial oxygen consumption and myocardial oxygen utilization. Increases myocardial contractility, increases cardiac output, and slows heart rhythm.

  1. Antibacterial effect

Hawthorn extract has strong antibacterial effect on Shigella, Fuchs, Sonnei and other Shigella and Escherichia coli. It also has antibacterial effect on Staphylococcus aureus, Beta Streptococcus, Escherichia coli, Variant Bacillus, Bacillus anthracis, Diphtheria Bacillus, Typhoid Bacillus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, etc. Generally, the effect on gram-positive bacteria is stronger than that of gram-negative bacteria. The processing method seems to have no effect on the antibacterial effect, and the antibacterial effect of raw coke hawthorn on Shigella, Proteus and Escherichia coli has no significant difference.

  1. Immune enhancing effect

Experiments confirmed that Hawthorn injection has the function of significantly enhancing the humoral immunity and cellular immunity of rabbits, and significantly enhanced the serum lysozyme content, serum hemagglutination antibody height, the formation rate of E rosettes of cardiac blood T lymphocytes and the transformation rate of blood T lymphocytes. effect.

  1. Inhibit platelet aggregation

Experiments show that hawthorn water decoction can inhibit platelet aggregation to a certain extent in vitro, and its IC50 is 1.388%.

  1. Effects on uterine contractions

Hawthorn extract has the effect of contracting the uterus, promoting the recovery of the uterus, and the effect of contracting the uterus can promote the discharge of blood clots in the uterine cavity. These effects are the pharmacological basis for its use in the treatment of postpartum stasis abdominal pain.

  1. Other functions

Under the condition of pH 3.5, the hawthorn extract was reacted at a constant temperature of 310K for 0.5, 1, 2 and 3 hours, and the blocking rates of the synthesis of diethyl nitrosamine were 94.8%, 92.7%, 93.5% and 94.6%. In addition, this product has deworming, antispasmodic, sedative and other effects.

  • Are there any side effects of hawthorn extract?

The reason is unclear, but one possibility is that the hawthorn extract may have had a harmful interaction with the medications the patient was taking. Hawthorn side effects include dizziness, nausea, and digestive symptoms. Then someone asks if it is possible to take hawthorn extract and antihypertensive drugs together? Of course, try not to take them together. Because hawthorn extract can lower blood pressure. Taking both together may cause your blood pressure to be too low. If inadvertently taken at the same time, pay close attention to measuring blood pressure.

 

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