Chinese Hawthorn

Latin Name: Crataegus cuneata

Chinese Name: ShanZha

Traditional Uses

Actions: Has digestive, antibacterial, vasodilative and hypotensive effects, promotes food digestion and resolves accumulation, expels phlegm and eliminates food stagnancy.

Applications: Dyspepsia, stagnancy of undigested food, stuffiness and fullness in the chest and abdomen, acid regurgitation, hernia, menorrhagia, and persistence of lochia. It is usually used in the treatment of stomach cancer and ovarian cancer.

Reference: Hung-yen Hsu, Ph.D. and Associates: Oriental Materia Medica A Concise Guide 1986, Keats Publishing