Shan Zha - Hawthorn fruit (Fructus Crataegi)

Properties: sligthly Warm, Sour, Sweet. Channels: Liver, Spleen, Stomach

Action and indication: Food stagnation, especially fatty food: meat, milk, etc.  (Bao He Wan, Jian Pi Wan)

Ab distension, pain, diarrhea.  Postpartum abdominal pain, lochia due to blood stasis.          

Hypertension, high cholesterol, coronary artery disease

Caution: Spleen and Stomach deficiency without food stagnation, also gastric hyperacidity (Sour, acidic).

Dose: 9-15 g 

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