Hawthorn Extract Powder

Product Code: JRG-S-048-20
English Name: Hawthorn Extract
Latin Name: Crataegus oxyacantha
Used Part: Fruit
Active ingredient: Flavones 
Specification: Flavones ≥ 20%;
Test Method: UV
Appearance: Brown powder

1. Introduction

Hawthorn Extract: It is a kind of product that is enriched in active ingredients extracted from fruits with appropriate solvents.
The main specification is Flavones  ≥20%;
It is a brown flowable powder, mainly used to improve digestion and invigorate stomach, promote qi and disperse blood stasis, reduce turbidity and lower fat.

2. Plant source

Hawthorn, the name of Chinese medicine. It is the dry and mature fruit of Crataegus pin, natiida Bge.var.majorN.E.Br. or Hawthorn Crataegus pin.nati fida Bge. The fruits are harvested in autumn when they are ripe, sliced, and dried.
This product is a round piece, shrunken and uneven, with a diameter of 1 to 2.5 cm and a thickness of 0.2 to 0.4 cm. The skin is red, wrinkled, with small gray-white spots. The flesh is dark yellow to light brown. The middle section has 5 light yellow pits, but the pits are mostly absent and hollow. Short and thin fruit stalks or calyx remnants can be seen on some slices. Slightly fragrant, sour and sweet.
Used for stagnant meat, stomach fullness, diarrhea, abdominal pain, blood stasis amenorrhea, postpartum stasis, heart and abdomen tingling, chest pain, hernia pain, hyperlipidemia. The effect of Jiaoshan Hawthorn on digestion and stagnation is enhanced. Used for stagnant meat, diarrhea and uncomfortable diarrhea.

3. Specification

4. Function

1. Heart strengthening effect: Hawthorn can increase myocardial contractility, increase cardiac output, and slow down heart rhythm.
2. Antihypertensive effect: Hawthorn ethanol extract has a longer-lasting antihypertensive effect.
3. Lowering blood lipid effect: Different extracts of hawthorn have a certain effect on lowering lipids in various high-fat models caused by different animals, and can antagonize the increase in serum cholesterol and triglyceride levels caused by high-fat feed.

5. Application

Hawthorn Extract has widely used in food, health products other fields.