Hawthorn, edible plants, stone fruits, hard, thin flesh, slightly sour taste. Deciduous shrubs. The branches are dense, with fine thorns, and the young branches are pilose. Branchlets purple-brown, old branches grayish brown. Can prevent cardiovascular diseases. Hawthorn is a unique medicinal and fruitful tree species in China.
Hawthorn has important medicinal value. Since ancient times, it has become a good medicine for spleen and appetizers, digestion and stagnation, and blood circulation. Hawthorn contains sugar, protein, fat, vitamin C, carotene, starch, malic acid, citric acid, calcium and iron and other substances, with hypolipidemic, blood pressure, cardiac and anti-arrhythmic effects. Vitexin, a flavonoid compound in hawthorn, is a kind of drug with strong anti-cancer effect. Hawthorn extract has certain inhibitory effect on the growth, proliferation and infiltration and metastasis of cancer cells.