Chinese / Pin Yin

山楂 Shan Zha

Common English Name

Hawthorn Fruit , Crataegus Fruit

Pharmaceutical Name

Crataegi Fructus

Standard Species

Crataegus pinnatifida  Bge.                                             

Crataegus pinnatifida Bge. var major N.E.Br          

Family

Rosaceae

Part

Fruit

Specification

Organic acids >5.0%.

Indications

Meet food accumulation and stagnation, distention and fullness in the stomach duct, abdominal pain caused by diarrhea and dysentery, blood-stasis amenorrhea, postpartum stasis and obstruciton, stabbing pain in heart and abdomen, chest impediment and heart pain, pain caused by genital disease, and hyperlipidemia.

Actions

To promote digestion and invigorate the stomach, move qi and dissipate stasis, resolve turbidity and lower lipid.