Can drinking hawthorn water lower blood lipids?

One patient with triglycerides of 6.3 mmol/L, I recommend that he take lipid-lowering drugs quickly, otherwise it is easy to develop acute pancreatitis (a very serious disease). He said that he had been tall for more than half a year and did not want to take lipid-lowering drugs, so could he drink some hawthorn water first? I said that hawthorn water can be drunk, but lipid-lowering drugs should be taken, and hawthorn water cannot replace lipid-lowering drugs.

I don't know when it began, many people think that drinking hawthorn water can lower blood lipids. I don't think this is a TCM statement, because there is no concept of blood lipids in TCM theory. Looking up the literature, there are indeed a few animal experiments that have found that hawthorn extract has a beneficial effect on blood lipids, but converting the effective dose of extract into the number of hawthorns is probably measured. That is to say, even if the results found in animal experiments can be applied to people, it seems unrealistic to eat one or two pounds of hawthorn every day to have the effect of lowering blood lipids.

Therefore, if serious triglyceride elevation is found, it is necessary to receive regular drug treatment in time to avoid serious adverse consequences. Drinking some hawthorn water in moderation is OK, but don't have much hope for its lipid-lowering effects, and you can't expect to drink hawthorn water instead of lipid-lowering drugs.

(Hebei Provincial People's Hospital, Guo Yifang)

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