Chinese Hawthorn Fruit

Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Henan, Hebei, Shandong.

Relatively small fruit, sub-spherical, 0.8~1.4cm diameter, sometimes pressed into a disc-like shape. Externally brown to brownish-red, with dense thin wrinkles, apex is indented, with remnants of calyx, base has fruit stem or it has already fallen.

Superior medicinal material is large with thick flesh, lacks seeds, and has red skin.

Sweet, sour, slightly warm

Opens appetite, digests food, resolves stagnation, eliminates accumulation, invigorates blood, disperses stasis, resolves phlegm, moves qi. Apply to dyspeptic disease due to over consumption of meat, abdominal mass accumulation, abdominal swelling and fullness, abdominal pain due to stasis, phlegm and fluid retention, diarrhea, discharging fresh blood stool.

Fried shan zha: Clean shan zha fried in pots with middle fire, until the color turned dark, take out and cool. Moderate the nature of medicinal material. Jiao shan zha: clean shan zha fried in pots with middle fire, until the external color turned burnt-brown, inner color is burnt-yellow, take out and cool. Apply to diarrhea in autum; clear aroma, sour and slightly astringent taste. Shan zha charcoal: clean shan zha fried in pots with fast fire, until the external color turned burnt-black, inner color is burnt-brown, take out and cool. Advanced in effect of stop-bleeding.