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Hawthorn is a notable heart tonic
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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Related Species
Crataegus coccinea |
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| Hawthorn is safe, and can be considered a medicinal food. |
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Preparation Methods :Fresh or dried berries, tincture, tea, and decoction
 Remedies using : Hawthorn
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Hawthorn Berries for :Heart tonic, HBP |
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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. Richard Mabey, The New Age Herbalist (1988) |
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Cholesterol Control *
Heart Tonics/Cordials *
Hypertension HBP *
Lungs/Respiratory *
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- Flowers: White, rarely pinkish, usually less than 1 in. across, numerous, in terminal corymbs. Calyx 5-lobed; 5 spreading petals inserted in its throat; numerous stamens; styles 3 to 5.
- Stem: A shrub or small tree, rarely attaining 30 ft. in height (Kratos = strength, in reference to hardness and toughness of the wood); branches spreading, and beset with stout spines (thorns) nearly 2 in. long.
- Leaves: Alternate, petioled, 2 to 3 in, long, ovate, very sharply cut or lobed, the teeth glandular-tipped.
- Fruit: Coral red, round or oval; not edible.
- Preferred Habitat: Thickets, fence-rows, woodland borders.
- Flowering Season: May.
- Distribution: Newfoundland and Manitoba southward to the Gulf of Mexico.
"The fair maid who, the first of May,
Goes to the fields at break of day
And washes in dew from the hawthorn tree
Will ever after handsome be."
The sombre-thoughted Scotchman, looking for trouble, tersely observes:
"Mony haws
"Mony snaws."
But in delicious, blossoming May, when the joy of living fairly intoxicates one, and every bird's throat is swelling with happy music, who but a Calvinist would croak dismal prophecies? In Ireland, old crones tell marvellous tales about the hawthorns, and the banshees which have a predilection for them.
Netje Blanchan Wild Flowers worth Knowing(1917)
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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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