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| Common Names |
| Hawthorn , Mayblossom, whitethorn |
| Botanical Name |
| Crataegus monogyna |
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| ROSACEAE Rose Family |
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Hawthorn berries have been used as a heart tonics for thousands of years, and remain one of our most valued herbal heart tonics. The herb is used in treating angina, irregular heartbeat, and Reynaud's disease as well. Hawthorn's medical properties are cardiac, diuretic, astringent, and tonic. A great deal of scientific study has validated hawthorn's benefits to the cardiovascular system. This traditional European herb dilates coronary arteries, improves oxygenation and energy metabolism in the heart, and decreases lactic acid, the waste product of exertion that causes heart muscle pain. Hawthorn has the ability to normalize blood pressure, lowering high blood pressure and restoring low blood pressure to normal.
Hawthorn is also valuable in insomnia and as a digestive aid. Both flowers and fruit and berries are astringent and useful in decoction to cure sore throats. Both flowers and berries are used in herbal medicine, but the berries are considered stronger. |
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Prep Methods :Fresh or dried berries, tincture, tea, and decoction
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| Heart Tonic | | Cardiac, diuretic, astringent, tonic. Mainly used as a cardiac tonic in organic and functional heart troubles. Both flowers and fruit and berries are astringent and useful in decoction to cure sore throats. 402
(Grieve, Maude ) | | Cardiovascular Supplement | | A supreme cardiovascular supplement - improve the heart muscle's metabolism - hawthorn extracts have a marked impact on angina pectoris, atheroscloerosis, hypertension, and the fluid buildup of congestive heart failure. 401
(Duke, James A, Ph.D. ) | | Pet care | | Working dogs and those who are subject to physiological stress benefit from hawthorn as a daily supplement, as do older animals who suffer from chronic heart problems. 1317
(Gregory L. Tilford ) | | Heart tonic, HBP | | A report in the British Medical Journal showed that the berries reduced high blood pressure caused by hardening of the arteries and kidney disease, while research work published on the effect of the flowers showed that they significantly improved the health of patients suffering from an "aging heart" and those who had heart-valve disease. 1316
(Richard Mabey ) |
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| Hawthorn is safe, and can be considered a medicinal food. |
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 Bushy, often thorny tree common throughout Europe and northeastern North America, this familiar tree attains a height of 30 feet and lives to a great age. It possesses a single seed vessel to each blossom that produces a single, stony apple like fruit.
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 Many country villagers believed that Hawthorn flowers still bear the smell of the Plague of London-the flowers are mostly fertilized by carrion insects, attracted by the suggestion of decay in the perfume. (Grieve, Maude |
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 It is a tree of Mars. The seeds in the berries beaten to powder being drank in wine, are held singularly good against the stone, and are good for the dropsy. Nicholas Culpeper |
 The tree was regarded as sacred, probably from a tradition that it furnished the Crown of Thorns. It adorns the family crest of English royalty, the Oglives, chosen by Henry VII. (Grieve, Maude |
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