Here are several ways to eat hawthorn: (1) Hawthorn Soup
Ingredients: 500g hawthorn, 100g sugar. Preparation: Wash the hawthorn, remove stems and seeds, boil in water until soft. Add sugar and drink the soup.
(2) Hawthorn Tea
Ingredients: 500g hawthorn, 200g dried lotus leaf, 200g coix seed, 100g licorice. Preparation: Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder, divide into 10 packets. Take one packet daily, steep in boiling water as tea, until the flavor weakens.
(3) Hawthorn, Silver and Chrysanthemum Drink
Ingredients: 10g each of hawthorn, honeysuckle, and chrysanthemum. Preparation: Crush the hawthorn, place it with honeysuckle and chrysanthemum in a cup to steep as tea. This is a one-day supply.
(4) Hawthorn and Tangerine Peel Drink
Ingredients: 20g each of raw hawthorn, tangerine peel, and lotus leaf, 10g raw coix seed. Preparation: Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder, steep in a thermos with boiling water, and drink throughout the day. Effective after three months.
(5) Hawthorn and Melon Peel Drink
Ingredients: 20g hawthorn, 30g winter melon peel, 10g each of fleeceflower root and pagoda tree fruit. Preparation: Cook the above ingredients in a pot for 20 minutes, strain the liquid and drink.
(6) Slimming and Fat-Reducing Tea
Ingredients: 20g hawthorn, 7g each of Alisma seed, radish seed, malt, tea leaf, Agastache rugosa, red soybean, Poria cocos, Cassia seed, dried tangerine peel, medicated leaven, and Prunella vulgaris. Preparation: Add all ingredients to a clay pot with water, simmer, strain the liquid, and drink. This is a one-day supply.
(7) Slimming and Fat-Reducing Tea
Ingredients: 10g each of raw hawthorn, raw fleeceflower root, Prunella vulgaris, Alisma seed, radish seed, and tea leaf. Preparation: Cook all ingredients together in a clay pot with an appropriate amount of water, strain the liquid and drink. This is a one-day supply.
(8) Double Root Tea
Ingredients: 15g each of tea root, hawthorn, and reed root. Preparation: Simmer all ingredients together for 20 minutes, strain the liquid and drink.