Can you eat hawthorn with high uric acid? Can you eat hawthorn with gout?
We all know that hawthorn has the effect of strengthening the stomach and eliminating appetite, in addition, hawthorn also has the effect of invigorating blood and removing blood stasis and lowering blood lipids. But we rarely know about the side effects of hawthorn, so we don't know what to pay attention to when we eat hawthorn. There are also many netizens who ask, why can't you eat hawthorn? And since hawthorn is rich in tannic acid, can people with high uric acid eat hawthorn? Can you eat hawthorn if you have gout? Below, let me introduce them to you one by one.
1. Hawthorn cannot be eaten if the uric acid is high
High uric acid is an abnormal condition in which the level of uric acid in the blood is higher than normal due to abnormal metabolism of a substance called purines in the body.
In this case, why can't people with high uric acid eat hawthorn? Because hawthorn is rich in tannic acid and has a high purine content, if you continue to eat hawthorn, it will increase the purines in the body, and the body with abnormal metabolism will be more disordered at this time, so patients with high uric acid cannot eat hawthorn.
2. You can't eat hawthorn for gout
Gout is caused by abnormal purine metabolism or abnormal uric acid excretion in the body, which increases the concentration of uric acid in the blood, and finally produces sodium urate salt in the body and deposits it in the small joints of the body, which forms gout. Therefore, the cause of gout is high uric acid, hawthorn is rich in purine substances, eating hawthorn will make the body that already produces purine metabolism disorders more disordered, so it is the same as high uric acid, and gout patients cannot eat hawthorn.
3. Hawthorn is prone to gastrointestinal stones
Hawthorn is rich in tannic acid, and after eating, it is easy to produce insoluble sediment in the stomach and intestines, so eating hawthorn is prone to stomach stones and other gastrointestinal stone diseases. In recent years, there have been more and more news reports that some people eat hawthorn and finally cause intestinal obstruction, so eat hawthorn in moderation, especially raw fresh hawthorn.