The king of a hundred fruits is both a fruit and a medicine; the mere sight of it makes you drool

In the rural north, autumn is the season when everything is harvested. In this season, farmers are always busy beyond measure, yet their faces carry the brightest smiles; this is the joy of the harvest.

Today we will introduce to you a fruit that farmers in the north harvest in this season, known as the "king of a hundred fruits," because it can not only be eaten as a fruit but also has high medicinal value, and a very complete industrial chain has already formed in northern China.

It is the hawthorn, which we call shanlihong here. Ripe hawthorns are a dazzling red, very eye-catching in the mountains, so we always call it shanlihong. Speaking of hawthorn, friends who grew up in rural areas of the north should be very familiar with it. When I was a child, hawthorns grew in the mountains, and when the hawthorn season came, farmers would go up the mountains to pick them. Hawthorn trees produce an enormous amount, and it seemed the hawthorns could never be picked clean; the yield is very high.

When we were children and feeling playful, we would always climb up the hawthorn trees to pick hawthorns, and as long as we saw a hawthorn tree in the distance, we would involuntarily start to drool; this must be what people call "looking at hawthorns to quench thirst."

In the north, hawthorn counts as a fruit that everyone likes to eat. Even now, there are still so many people selling candied hawthorn skewers, which shows how many people love eating hawthorn. Hawthorn tastes sweet and sour, extremely delicious, and it also has the effect of strengthening the stomach and aiding digestion. Especially for people with a poor appetite, eating a few hawthorns before a meal makes the meal taste much better.

Eating a few after a meal is most effective for dissolving retained food, especially when you have abdominal bloating or an uncomfortable stomach and intestines; eating some hawthorn or drinking some hawthorn tea both have very good effects. Nowadays, besides eating hawthorn directly or making it into delicious candied hawthorn skewers, it can also be processed into various preserved fruits, hawthorn cakes and other snacks, which are also very popular in the north.

Besides being delicious, hawthorn also has unique medicinal effects, with a certain health-promoting effect on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, such as blood pressure and blood lipids. In daily life, you can slice hawthorns and dry them in the sun, then directly brew the dried hawthorn slices in water to drink. Persisting with hawthorn water over the long term has certain benefits for the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular systems.

Moreover, the latest medical research has also found that hawthorn contains a special component that also has a certain anti-cancer effect. Seen this way, hawthorn really can be considered the king of a hundred fruits. This is just such a bright red fruit; although it is not large in size, its value is very great.

Dear friends, do you like eating hawthorn? What other effects of hawthorn do you know?