In our nature, everything is created so that a person does not need anything, and the sick person has everything necessary to restore health. Unfortunately, we forgot about this wisdom and lost a lot of knowledge. Therefore, most often we restore the lost health with drugs based on chemistry.

One of the amazing gifts of nature is hawthorn, the benefits of which on the body are enormous. For a very long time not only medicinal, but also magical properties were attributed to the beautiful shrub with bright red fruits. Dry fruits and fresh hawthorn berries are still in Ancient china  and Asia have been used to treat heart disease. The ancient Greeks baked healing bread from them.

I would like to immediately draw the attention of the reader that any medicinal plant is considered to be the same medicine as drugs purchased in a pharmacy, but with a milder effect. Therefore, their reception can bring both benefit and harm. It is this effect on the body has hawthorn. We will consider further both its positive aspects and possible side effects.

  Chemical and pharmacological properties of hawthorn

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The benefits to the body of this amazing plant lies in the composition of the berries. Hawthorn fruits are rich in such vitamins as A, B, K, E. Berries medicinal plant  are a real treasure trove of vitamin C and trace elements potassium and calcium. And some of its varieties contain carotene several times more than in carrots. Hawthorn is also rich in fructose, pectin, sorbitol, starch, saponins, essential oils, flavonoids and choline.

The main value and benefit of hawthorn is that it contains components that are very difficult to find in other plants. So the presence of ursolic acid in its fruits contributes to the expansion of blood vessels, reducing inflammatory process  against the background of antimicrobial action. It is also considered the most important component necessary for the development of the body's own collagen. Other types of acids (malic, citric, crateguic, tartaric, ascorbic, etc.) that contain hawthorn have hepatoprotective, antitumor cardiac stimulating properties.

The benefits of hawthorn for the heart and blood vessels

Flowers, fresh berries, dried fruits and tincture of it have a complex healing effect on the whole body and on individual organs. But above all, hawthorn is considered a cardiovascular remedy:

• A heart. The fruit of the plant is able to effectively expand the blood vessels, which tones the heart muscle, thus providing a sufficient supply of oxygen to the heart. This decreases the frequency of the beats and regulates the rhythm, and the strength of the heartbeats tends to increase. This effect reduces the excitability of the heart, relieves fatigue and generally improves cerebral and coronary circulation. Fresh berries and tincture of its fruits effectively cure atrial fibrillation and tachycardia in a mild form.
• Vessels. Hawthorn is able to normalize blood clotting, improve blood circulation in the vessels of the heart and brain. Fruits and tincture of it lower cholesterol levels, which helps prevent the formation of atherosclerotic plaques, and regular use helps cleanse the blood vessels.
• Nervous system. Hawthorn berries have a mild sedative effect, but without the presence of drowsiness. By reducing the excitability of the nervous system, insomnia is eliminated and sleep is normalized. Harm and side effects from it are practically absent, with the exception of people driving a vehicle.

The healing properties of the plant

However, only the ability to restore the cardiovascular system, its benefits on the body is not limited. Hawthorn berries are an effective treatment for gastritis and difficult digestion, both in children and adults. Hawthorn perfectly eliminates loose stools  and normalizes the bowels.

Flowers and fruits effectively relieve headaches and dizziness. Having an antioxidant effect, prevent the emergence and further development of tumors of various types. Experts recommend to use infusions, tinctures and teas from hawthorn after the flu and ARVI, as they enhance the body's immunity and contribute to the rapid recovery of strength. With a choleretic effect, hawthorn can also be used to relieve colic in the liver, resulting from exacerbation of cholecystitis and cholelithiasis.

Harm of hawthorn

The benefits to the body of hawthorn are enormous. But harm and side effects  everything is there.

• Regular intake of the plant helps to reduce blood pressure, which is extremely dangerous for people prone to hypotension. Therefore, in order not to cause severe harm to the body of hawthorn berries, it is better to replace it with flowers or a similar medicinal plant.

• Long-term use has a depressant effect on heart rate.
• In case of gastritis with increased acidity, it is not recommended to use fruits and decoctions on an empty stomach, since the acids contained in them aggressively affect the stomach walls and can cause spasm, vomiting and aggravation.
• Extremely careful need to be lactating mothers and pregnant women. Since the presence of large amounts of acid and a slight sedative effect can be harmful to the child.

Hawthorn

Natural elixir from hawthorn is considered to be a magic potion for many diseases. Tincture, decoction, compote and tea is made from the flowers and fruits of the plant, as well as from its leaves and bark. In order not to harm the body eating berries should not exceed 150 grams. per day. Otherwise, hawthorn can cause dizziness, nausea, and even serious poisoning.

For tea, you can use the leaves, flowers and fruits in the amount of 20 g per cup. The magnificent hot drink is obtained in combination with the chopped fruits of hawthorn (4h) motherwort (4h), dried breadcrumbs (4h) and chamomile (1h). One Art. l mixture steamed 250 g of boiling water, infused and consumed half an hour before bedtime.

To make the tincture you need the flowers, fruits, leaves (at your choice), pour vodka and leave in a warm dark place for infusion. Capacity to shake occasionally. After 30-40 days, strain the drug and use 1 tsp in the morning and evening. Duration of treatment is about 1 month. After a short interval, the course can be repeated.

The power of nature is large enough and you should not forget that man is a part of it, so she will have the means to treat any even the most complicated disease. Do not forget about it and be always healthy!

Video about the benefits and dangers of hawthorn:

Those who lived with their grandparents in the village, remember how they ate the little red fruits of the sometimes thorny tree with leaves that looked like paws. The fruits were rather dry, slightly tart to the taste, but we could not tear ourselves away. This tree or shrub is called hawthorn, like its fruit.

Homeland hawthorn is North America, but in the territory of the former USSR, it has grown widely. And all because of the birds who love these fruits. Birds smashed sunflower seeds around the world, they sprouted, grew into shrubs and trees and delight us with tasty and healthy berries.

Interesting, but the red hawthorn has no thorns, while others have it. But in the bush with large and fleshy fruits, the spines are very sharp and very long. Well, here's how to eat hawthorn? And for little birds, these spines are a real salvation. Miniature nimble creatures can penetrate inside the crown without hurt by the thorns, while large, predatory birds remain outside. This is how the feathered trifle escapes from the claws and beaks of larger companions.

Pharmacological composition of hawthorn fruit

Even those 15 types of shrubs from 1250 that grow with us have such an arsenal of useful properties that, if skillfully used, they can replace most of the medicines in the first-aid kit. We are talking about hawthorn fruits. Wikipedia expertly states that even in the XIV century the berries were eaten with diarrhea, and a decoction of leaves and flowers was prescribed for blood purification. And a little later, in the last century, it turned out that you can strengthen the heart and the walls of blood vessels with berries. Hawthorn is part of some homeopathic medicines and dietary supplements for the heart.

Hawthorn fruit, medicinal properties  which directly depend on the pharmacological composition, contain:

• vitamin A (carotene), P, C, thiamine, riboflavin and choline;
• trace elements phosphorus, potassium, molybdenum, zinc, magnesium, copper, cobalt, iron, calcium;
• citric, malic, tartaric, caffeic acid;
• tanning,;
• flavonoids;
• fixed oils;
• natural fructose based sugars

Each substance, vitamin is useful in its own way, and together they give hawthorn healing properties.

Hawthorn: its benefits and harm

The hawthorn shrub is so generously endowed with useful qualities that not only fruits but also leaves and even flowers have medicinal properties. When fresh, dried, as decoctions or infusions, they are quite a strong remedy for various ailments and diseases, and therefore it should be taken carefully and not more than the prescribed dose. Yes, what a controversial it is, our hawthorn, the benefits and harms in which side by side and so small a step from one to another!

Benefit

Let's start with useful properties, for which we appreciate hawthorn.

• Hawthorn relieves diarrhea.
• Fruits are useful for problems with blood vessels and the heart. Flavonoids and quercetin are to blame for this.
• The same quercetin prevents the development of cataracts.
• Breathing becomes easier as hawthorn fills blood vessels with oxygen. Hyperoside helps him in this.
• High pressure drops once after taking berries.
• Heaviness in the stomach - eat hawthorn.
• Do you want to eat, open the refrigerator, and then “the mouse hanged herself”? Hawthorn berries perfectly satisfy hunger for a while, and you will have time to buy and cook something for the stomach and soul.
• It has a calming effect during menopause.
• Insomnia, stress, overwork disappear without a trace after tea with hawthorn, as if they never existed.
• The same happens with a headache, shortness of breath, dizziness - a cup of tea or broth and everything will pass.
• Useful and acid in red berries. Chlorogenic breaks down sclerotic plaques in the blood, cleanses the liver, kidneys, drives bile, ursolovy removes inflammation and heals wounds, oleic blood accelerates blood flow.

The benefits of carotene, and you can not even mention it. Even a child knows that they fight viruses, bacteria and improve eyesight.

Fruits contain a lot of sugar, more precisely, fructose. And therefore this product is recommended even to those suffering from diabetes. It's nice, you see, to feast on sweet berries and not think about the sugar content growing in blood. But! Know the measure.

Even cosmetologists have heard about the healing power of hawthorn and make their clients masks of ground fruits. They remove puffiness, restore the water balance of the skin, improve oval and complexion, smooth fine wrinkles.

Ladies in the body can brew tea from and hawthorn in equal proportions. Boiled and infused 4 hours berries contribute to weight loss, as they increase metabolism.

Representatives of the stronger sex will appreciate the hawthorn property exclusively for men. Here is the secret of it: a teaspoon and hawthorn flowers, 2 spoons of medicinal veronika and 3 spoons each of a highlander bird and (take the flowers). Pour boiling water over a mixture of aromatic herbs at the rate of a glass of water for a tablespoon of herbs, cover and leave for half an hour. An hour before meals, drink a third of a glass. You can add honey to taste. Like this! And tasty and healthy.

Harm

Let's look at the glood (as hawthorn is otherwise called) from a different angle - with what it can harm and to whom.

• If you have normal pressure or low, the berries are not worth it.
• Hawthorn is also contraindicated for pregnant women. It increases blood flow, which can lead to uterine tone.
• Nursing mothers, too, should better be careful not to drink even hawthorn tea. The point is again in the action on pressure and blood flow velocity. Why risk it?
• Even in the recommended doses, it is not worth for the cores to drink teas, decoctions, infusions for a long time - there is a risk to bring down the heart rhythm.
• And if you eat too much hawthorn and even on an empty stomach, your stomach will ache, cramps, intestinal cramps and even emetic urges will appear.

For reference: drink no more than a tablespoon of broth for the heart three times a day, with pressure the dose is the same, only the number of doses can be increased to four or five. And eat hawthorn, medicinal properties  which is so strong, glasses are unhealthy in the literal sense of the word.

Broth hawthorn. Benefit and harm

Hawthorn, like any other berry, should be eaten fresh, just picked. Then there will be more benefit from it. But where in the winter or in the city you take it? Instead of fresh fruits, you can use dried, harvested personally or bought in a pharmacy. And already with them to do the broth hawthorn. The benefits and harm of infusions and decoctions is present, as well as in fresh berries.

The recommendations are the same as when eating fresh berries. Just keep in mind that the proportion of dried fruit is less than that of fresh ones, and the concentration of all kinds of vitamins, substances, flavonoids, fructose and oils is greater, so you need to be careful when dosing.

Hawthorn in the kitchen

Hawthorn, many housewives use in the pastry. Mixing with honey, add to pies, and ground dried fruits are seasoned to taste the dough.

From fresh hawthorn berries they cook marmalade juices, jam, compote. Yes, the value of the fruit decreases, but it’s delicious how!

Legends of hawthorn

You wondered where the name hawthorn came from. Otherwise, the tree is called glod, blackthorn, or madam-tree. And endowed him with various wonderful powers.

There is a legend about the shrub and its fruits - hawthorn was noted in mythology.

Cupid was in love with the nymph Rosalia. However, Diana was eager for Cupid. To eliminate a rival, she deprived her of life, spikes of thorns. Cupid was inconsolable. His tears were so desperate and bitter that gentle flowers bloomed where they fell on a branch of blackthorn. These were in ancient times dreamers ...

According to another legend, Prince Oleg, who in the future became known as the Prophet, besieged the capital of Byzantium for a long time. When the Emperor of Byzantium agreed to negotiations, he sent treats to Oleg and his soldiers, hoping in this way to pacify them, and, perhaps, poison them. Rusichi refused gifts.

The emperor, knowing about the refusal of the Russians to eat, waited several days and attacked Oleg's army, hoping that it would be weak and exhausted. To the surprise of the emperor, Oleg again won. The Byzantine had to capitulate. Signing the terms of the peace agreement, the emperor asked how Oleg's army managed to survive without food and not lose strength. In response, the prince held out a twig with bright red hawthorn fruits. After this battle, according to legend, Oleg began to magnify Prophetic.

There is another beautiful, but sad story (although rather a legend) about hawthorn shrubs that poetess Lyudmila Mershieva-Skalygo clothed in rhyme. It sounds like that.

In ancient times there lived a young Slav woman who loved to weave wreaths of flowers. She especially liked hawthorn flowers. White flowers meant innocence, and red berries warned, as if to say, “Take care of her!”

The girl had a fiancé, but unfortunately young Khan Bata fell in love with her. How many he did not offer the girl to meet, always received a refusal. But once, when the girl was waiting for her beloved, Bata hunted down and wanted to take her by force.

... There hawthorn grows outside the village,
  At the bush guy maid waiting.
  From the bush flowers woven into a wreath,
  What an innocent guy gave to know.
  Soon the wedding day in the village to play,
  But do not play the wedding, wipe the tears!
  Fallen in love with busurmanin
  Beauty stupefied her.
  As the enemy crept - did not notice.
  Busurmanina replied:
  - You do not touch, Baskak, a young girl!
  Stand up for yourself, enough silushki!
  Just take a step so kill yourself
  To be abused, I will not allow!
  The enemy made a step towards her, but was dumbfounded.
  She held a sharp knife in her hands ...
On the bush berries do not count,
  They say: “Take care of honor!”
  So since long, in honor of the hawthorn
  “Hawthorn bush” magnify it ...

But she could, stupid, defend herself with a knife ... Suicide is one of the most stupid and senseless actions ...

Fruits and flowers of hawthorn bring great benefits to health. Their properties are used to prevent and treat diseases of the heart, blood vessels, normalize pressure and digestion, overcome fatigue, insomnia, eliminate the effects nerve strain. Berries of wild varieties were already used in ancient China and Asia. In the 16th century, cultivated plant species were bred. At first, hawthorn was useful for eliminating loose stools when dysentery. Then it began to be used to improve the work of the heart and vascular condition.

The composition of the medicinal plant

Accurate chemical composition explaining beneficial features  hawthorn is still unknown. It is believed that therapeutic effect  is achieved flavonoids, plant polyphenols. In addition to giving the fruit of a particular color, they help to eliminate the fragility of the walls of blood vessels, neutralize free radicals in the body.

• quercitrin  maintains elasticity, reduces capillary permeability, has antitumor and antioxidant effects;
• quercetin  an excellent tool for the prevention and treatment of cerebral circulatory disorders, cardiovascular diseases. Adequate intake of quercetin reduces the risk of cataract formation.
• hyperosideincreases glucose utilization, increases the use of oxygen, enriches the heart with potassium ions. As a result, the contractility increases. myocardium, the middle layer of the heart muscle, as well as the amount of cardiac output.
• vitexin  dilates blood vessels, enhances metabolic processes in the heart muscle.

Flowers and hawthorn fruits also benefit from the properties of their constituent acids:

• ursolic  has a healing and anti-inflammatory effect;
• oleanolic  tones and strengthens the blood supply to the heart, brain;
• chlorogenicanti-sclerotic effect, useful for the normalization of kidney function, liver, has a choleretic effect.
• coffee shop  It has strong antibacterial properties, and also contributes to the secretion of bile.

In the fruits of the plant especially a lot carotene, provitamin A, as well as vitamins C, E, K. Some varieties by the amount of carotene in berries are comparable to carrots or rosehips. The fruits contain sugars as well sorbitolrecommended in case of diabetes.

The amount of tannins decreases after freezing, the berries become sweeter and not so tart.

Healing properties of hawthorn

Acceptance of fruits and flowers of the plant in the form of infusion, tincture, decoction benefits the entire body, providing a complex effect on various organs and systems.

A heart . Providing a vasodilating effect, hawthorn benefits from the ability to tone up the heart muscle, to ensure sufficient oxygen supply. The frequency decreases, the rhythm is established, the heart rate increases. As a result, the excitability of the heart decreases, its fatigue is removed, the coronary blood flow and cerebral circulation are improved.

Hawthorn in a particular dosage form is useful property to reduce the manifestation of milder forms.

Vessels . The plant normalizes blood clotting, prevents the formation of atherosclerotic plaques. It is used in the case of vasospasm.

Nervous system . Rendering sedative  (soothing, but without the onset of drowsiness) action, useful plant  reduces the excitability of the nervous system, helps eliminate insomnia, helps normalize sleep.

Digestive system . Reception of infusions and tinctures helps with gastritis  in any form flatulencein case of obstructed digestion in children. It is used to eliminate loose stools.

Flowers and fruits of the plant help to cope with headache, dizziness, shortness of breath. Exerted antioxidant effect prevents the formation of tumors of various nature, helps to quickly restore power after past infectious diseases.

Nursing mothers use the useful property of hawthorn to stimulate the formation of milk.

Plant use in cosmetic products  helps to restore natural moisture skin integument, tones up, relieves swelling, eliminates the manifestations of age-related changes.

Drugstores

As a rule, for the preparation of drugs with a number of useful properties, flowers and fruits are used. common hawthorn, prickly, blood red  and other small-fruited species. They are better studied and contain a significant amount of compounds that normalize the work of the heart.

Hawthorn fruit   Available in various dosage forms: vegetable raw materials, powder, lozenges, tincture, extract. Their benefits in eliminating arrhythmias, they are also used to calm the central nervous system, reduce cholesterol, normalize blood clotting, increase the formation of milk, eliminate digestive disorders in infants.

Flowers compared with the fruits have a better ability to reduce arterial pressure.

Hawthorn tincture   Prepared from crushed dried fruit 70% alcohol.

Cardiovalen , drops for ingestion due to being part of adonizidutincture valerianextract   hawthornuseful property to increase the strength of heart contractions, have a sedative effect.

Valemidin,   alcohol drops to eliminate the vascular smooth muscle spasm and internal organs, also have a sedative effect.

Phytorelax,   manufactured in tablet form, contains rhizome valerian  and hawthorn flower extract. Benefits due to sedative properties, helps to cope with insomnia, increased nervous irritability.

Kedrovit   in the shape of elixirnon-dosed liquid dosage form, tones, increases the body's resistance to harmful effects, helps to quickly cope with overwork. Consists of flowers and fruits. hawthorn, birch buds, pine nuts, honey, berries black chokeberry.

Amrita,   elixir in the form of a mixture of alcohol-water extracts of vegetable raw materials dog rose, elecampane, ginger, cardamom, juniper, thyme, fruits licorice andhawthorn . Its benefits and medicinal properties are manifested by a tonic and tonic effect.

Demidov syrup   has a choleretic effect, eliminates spasm of smooth muscles, reduces the formation of gases during flatulence, stimulates peristalsis. Contains fruits hawthorn, calamus, birch buds, bark oak tree, oregano.

How to make hawthorn at home. Juice, tea, infusions, tincture

It is good to drink during the season. fresh fruit juice . It improves blood circulation, normalizes the work of the digestive system.

Hawthorn Tea Recipe . In the evening, put in a thermos 20-30 berries, you can add, brew 1l of boiling water. In the morning healthy tea  is ready. It is better to brew the whole fruit, because it retains more benefits.

From the dried fruits and flowers of hawthorn, having a mass of useful properties, you can prepare the infusion.

The easiest cooking recipe hawthorn infusion at home - whole berries brew boiling water and leave overnight in a thermos at the rate of a couple handful of fruit per 1 liter of boiling water. Take a third of the glass for an hour before meals 3-4 times a day. Its properties are useful for arrhythmias, angina, to eliminate nervous excitement.

If the berries are crushed, the infusion can be obtained faster. Brew 1.s.l. crushed berries with a glass of boiling water. In half an hour the home remedy is ready. Take 1/3 cup per hour before meals.

Hawthorn tincture   prepared from crushed dried fruits or flowers. They insist two weeks on vodka at the rate of 2 glasses of vodka per 4 cl. plant materials. The finished tincture is filtered. Accepted 25-30 drops with water an hour before meals.

In the floral tincture is more therapeutic and beneficial properties for getting rid of hypertension, angina.

The use of hawthorn in heart disease

The plant is widely used to treat heart disease. They usually appear various symptoms. Sometimes fatigue increases, weakness is felt even in the absence of physical activity, and the night rest does not restore power. Disrupted cerebral circulation causes fainting, loss of consciousness. Suddenly, swelling may occur, shortness of breath and a feeling of tightness in the chest, especially in the prone position. When these symptoms appear, it is necessary to consult a doctor.

Heart failure

If, for one reason or another, the heart muscle loses its ability to contract strongly enough, the other organs begin to experience oxygen starvation. In order to normalize blood circulation, it is necessary to take hawthorn, a useful property to prevent fatigue of the heart muscle, to have a tonic and strengthening effect.

Hawthorn tea balm . To 100g of black tea add 2 cl. rosehips, 1ch.l. hawthorn berries, Ls motherwort, Ls   peppermint, 1chl valerian, 1ch.l. chamomile flowers. Brew and drink as usual tea.

Hawthorn juice . A glass of fresh or thawed fruit after freezing to wash, chop, add a little water, heat to + 30C. Place the raw material in gauze and squeeze the juice with a spoon. Take 1.l. an hour before meals. The remaining cake is suitable for brewing, you can make an infusion from it.

Hawthorn infusion . Brew 1.s.l. crushed fruit with a glass of boiling water, to insist half an hour, drain. Take half a cup in the morning and at night.

When preparing an infusion, you can take 2 parts hawthorn flowers  and motherwort, add 1 part peppermint   and hop cones. Brew 1.s.l. mixture with a glass of boiling water, insist half an hour, drain. Drink a glass during the day. Mint dilates blood vessels, hops soothes.

Coronary heart disease (CHD), angina pectoris, and myocardial infarction

If a myocardium, the middle layer of the heart muscle, not enough oxygen comes in, muscle spasm happens, accompanied by chest heaviness, squeezing. As a rule, coronary heart disease develops due to disruption of work coronary arteriesthrough which the myocardium is supplied with oxygenated blood. Common cause is atherosclerosis, deposition on the walls of blood vessels cholesterol and education atheromatous plaques.

Chronic disease is called angina pectoris  or pectoral toad,she is it is shown by the attacks removed nitroglycerin. An acute form of CHD is called myocardial infarction.

• For cHD prevention   useful to take courses infusion of fruits and flowers hawthorn, useful property to reduce cholesterol, normalize blood pressure and heart rate. For taste, you can prepare the infusion along with the fruits dog rose.
• For prevention of angina and myocardial infarction   worth cooking infusion hawthorn  and motherwort. Mix 1 tsp. crushed berries or flowers with motherwort grass, brew in a glass of boiling water, leave for an hour, drain. Take 1/3 cup an hour before meals.
• Taking 1 part of the fruit hawthorn  and motherwort, add 2 parts valerian  and fruits feynheluseful property to render calming effect . Brew 1.s.l. collect a glass of boiling water, simmer in a water bath for 15 minutes. When the infusion has cooled, strain. Take 1/3 cup 2 hours after meals.
• Infusion from angina pectoris   can be made from some berries. Brew hawthorn  at the rate of 1..l. fruit on 1 cup boiling water, insist night in a thermos. In the morning, pour the infusion, squeezing the berries through a thin fabric. Take a glass an hour before meals.

After a myocardial infarction, 2 times a day 1/2 cup is indicated. hawthorn juice  and 1 tsp. vegetable oil. Some time later, instead of tea, take a weak infusion of berries.

Does hawthorn increase or decrease pressure?

The medicinal plant benefits the property of normalizing high or low blood pressure, so it is used in recipes from hypertension  and hypotension.

Pressure Recipes

When hypertension  increases the risk of stroke, heart attack. High blood pressure can also signal kidney problems.

Useful property of hawthorn is used in the recipe of the famous folk remedies. Mix 1 tsp. crushed fruits, and motherwort, dried ladyadd a little dried chamomile flowers. Brew a glass of boiling water. An hour later, strain the infusion. Take 1.l. an hour before meals.

Of hawthorn flowers  another remedy is being prepared. Dried vegetable raw materials at the rate of 1..l. on a glass makes in the evening, night is insisted in the closed ware. It is accepted on 1 glass an hour before food within a month.

Another recipe from high pressure. Mix in 3 parts hawthorn flowers, motherwort, 2 pieces of fruit black chokeberry, 1 part clover. Brew at the rate of 1.l. collecting a glass of boiling water. Insist in a thermos overnight. Take a third of a glass an hour before meals.

Mix 3ch.l. hawthorn flowers  and 2.l. herbs initial letters, it benefits from the ability to normalize vascular tone and blood clotting. Pour mixture with three glasses of cold water. Bring to a boil, insist 5 hours. Take a glass an hour before meals.

A simple prescription for hypotension

With reduced pressure more often happens, hypotensive poorly tolerate heat. But their well-being improves with sufficient physical activity. To maintain the tone they need to drink hawthorn infusion.

For its preparation, flowers and fruits are used at the rate of 2 tsp. dried crushed berries and 1ch.l. flowers in a glass of boiling water. After a couple of hours, strain, take 1 glass an hour before a meal or after 2 hours a field of food.

Treatment of hawthorn vascular diseases, atherosclerosis

The walls of healthy blood vessels are elastic, if necessary, their tone is easily changed. In the case of the formation of cholesterol deposits, a decrease in elasticity, the lumen decreases or becomes uneven, as with varicose veins. As a result, the organs do not receive the required amount of oxygen, the outflow of blood worsens.

• For prevention and treatment varicose veins  take 3 parts hawthorn flowers  and oreganoin 4 parts hypericum  and motherwort.Brew in the evening 1s.l. mix with a glass of water, infuse overnight. Take 1/2 cup an hour before meals.
• Also helps the following composition. Take 1 part hawthorn berries, chamomile flowers, oregano, kidney tea, in 2 parts peppermint  and motherwort. At night, brew 1s.l. mixture of boiling water. Take an hour before meals for 1/2 cup.

If a atherosclerosis  affects the arteries of the brain, happens stroke, kidney arteries - hypertension, coronary arteries - CHD.

The causes of this disease is considered to be an abnormal lifestyle, metabolic disorders, thyroid disease, causing an increase in blood cholesterol levels. By itself, cholesterol, a natural fatty alcohol, in certain quantities is necessary for the body, it is specifically produced by the liver.

• From atherosclerosis apply the useful properties of hawthorn flowers. From them prepare the next infusion. Brew 1.s.l. dried flowers, insist 15 minutes, drain. Take 1/2 cup half an hour before meals.
• If you use the fruit, it is better to insist 2 hours in a thermos. Take 1-2s.l. an hour before meals.
• For the prevention of coronary artery disease, stroke, the following recipe is effective. Take 2 parts hawthorn fruit  and dog rose, on 1 part of fruits black chokeberry  and carrot seed. Brew 3.l. mixture of liter of boiling water, insist 3 hours. Take 1/2 cup 6 times a day.
• Chopped hawthorn berries at the rate of 1.l. 0.5 l of water to boil over low heat for half an hour, adding 2 l. sand. Keep refrigerated. Take from atherosclerosis by 1.l. an hour before meals and at night.

The benefits of hawthorn in overwork and to relieve stress

The healing properties of flowers and fruits are used to prevent the healthy state of the heart and blood vessels, normalize blood pressure, they help to cope with nervous exhaustion.

It is no secret that the constant mobilization during a busy day tires the nervous system, causes an increase in pressure, increases the frequency of heartbeats. Irritability, headaches appear, sleep is disturbed.

Hawthorn fruits are useful property to reduce the excitation of the nervous system, to expand the blood vessels. As a result, improves cerebral and cardiac circulation, increases the supply of sufficient oxygen.

• To better fall asleep and sleep soundly, to wake up rested, in the morning brew some berries in a thermos. Take ready tea for the night, you can with honey.
• Brew 1.s.l. berries with a glass of boiling water, insist in a thermos for 1 hour. Take 3 cl. 3-4 times a day an hour before meals.
• Berry Tea hawthorn  and hypericum  benefits the property of eliminating anxiety, irritability. Mix crushed fruits and grass in equal quantities, brew 1sl. mixture of boiling water. After 15 minutes, tea is ready.

Treatment of hawthorn metabolic disorders

It is no secret that the quality of food of a modern resident is far from ideal, often you have to use low-quality or poorly combined products. Lack of fresh fruits and vegetables does not allow the intestines to regularly get rid of harmful substances. As a result, metabolic processes are disturbed, the level of cholesterol increases, elevated pressure becomes a constant companion, the heart is hampered.

When gastritis  inflamed stomach mucosa. For the elimination of heartburn and other unpleasant manifestations of the disease benefits hawthorn infusion  and To prepare it, mix and brew 1 tsp. each component a glass of boiling water. Half an hour later, the infusion is ready.

Due to metabolic disorders in gallbladder  stagnation occurs, causing stones to form. This prevents the liver to effectively cleanse the blood of harmful substances, worsens the overall condition of the body.

Infusion of hawthorn flowersbenefits the property to normalize metabolic processes, it is used in the treatment of diseases of the digestive system. Infusion is prepared at the rate of 1.l. per cup of boiling water, infused for 1 hour. Take 1/4 cup an hour before meals.

Treatment of prostatitis

Hawthorn is a useful property to warn prostatitis  and prostate adenoma, a benign tumor, the appearance of which is believed to be associated with age changes  hormone levels. In addition to the discomfort in the lower abdomen, the disease is manifested by fatigue and irritability.

Use hawthorn tea  normalizes sexual function, simultaneously calms and improves the functioning of the heart.

The following collection is also useful for men: mix 1 part hawthorn flowers  and peppermint, 2 parts veronica officinalis, in 3 parts willow flower  and mountaineer bird. Brew 1 tsp. mixture with a glass of boiling water, insist 20-30 minutes. Take 1/3 cup an hour before meals.

Hawthorn varieties

The ancient plant is distinguished by a variety of species, growing in various countries. In Russia and the CIS, the most common varieties blood red (siberian), barbed (ordinary), odnopestichny (odnostochkovy). In addition, varieties are grown daurian, altaic, ukrainian  and many others used for the prevention and treatment of numerous diseases.

Blood Red (Siberian)

Shrub or small tree up to 4 m high with straight, sparse, long (up to 5 cm) prickles. Flowering short, 3-4 days. It usually happens in May-June and is accompanied by unpleasant smell  stale fish.

Round berries 8-10cm with 3-4 bones edible, different sourish flavor, ripen in September-October. The first crop appears after 7 years or later.

The plant is unpretentious, tolerates frost and drought, poor soil. Lives 300-400 years. Often used in hedges. In the wild, it is common in the taiga of Siberia, in the Far East, near a source of moisture.

Spiny (ordinary)

It grows with shrubs or trees up to 5m. Hawthorn berries are small, about 1 cm in diameter. Differs in slow growth, in wild form is found throughout Europe.

Differs in shade tolerance, undemanding to the composition of the soil, easily tolerates shearing and molding. It is widely used to create impassable natural fences.

Odnopestichny (odnostochkovy)

It is popular in the southern and central region of Russia, grows in Central Asia, in the Caucasus. Unlike the spiny variety, it has a high growth rate. Lives up to 200-300 years in the form of a tree up to 3-6m. Spines rare, 1cm long. In berries, one bone, fruiting begins after 6 years.

Forms a lot of shoots, easily tolerates a haircut. The mass of ornamental varieties, differing in the shape of the crown, leaves, lack of thorns, constant flowering, has been derived.

Planting, reproduction and care. Creating a hedge

Hawthorn breed stratified seeds  (seasoned in the cold before germination), root shoots and cuttings, layering, inoculation.

Propagation by seeds (from a stone) is used if it is required to grow a hedge, since with this method the useful properties of hawthorn are lost. Seeds can be planted in the fall, having received them from slightly unripe fruits. And thicker, since many do not ascend. When planting in spring, seeds should be pre-seasoned for several months at a temperature of +1 .. + 3C.

In the first year, the sapling grows by 10-12 cm. In the second or third year, when it reaches about half a meter in height, the first pruning of the plant is performed. 3-6 lower buds are left, which is why lateral shoots begin to grow intensively. They are also cut off, leaving no more than two.

Seedlings are planted in a permanent place at the age of two, as they take root best. Hawthorn seedlings should not be placed next to apples, pears, plums, since these plants have common pests.

Dig a hole 50x50 cm, the distance between the pits is up to 2 m. Pour the fertile soil layer on the bottom, add humus, mineral fertilizers. The root collar is buried 3-5 cm. Water well and keep the soil moist for two weeks.

In the future, regularly trimming the bush, they give it the necessary shape and height.

For better fruiting hawthorn requires the sun. The rest of the plant is drought-and frost-resistant. The first crop appears after 5-6 years. Fruiting is usually annual or in a year. One plant gives up to 20kg of berries.

The "prickly" hawthorn properties are useful for growing shrubs as hedges. Saplings are planted in trenches with a depth of 50-70cm and a width of 50cm. The distance between the bushes should not exceed 50cm. They are formed by cutting half the length of a one-year increment. In the autumn make superphosphate and potassium salt.

Harvesting flowers and fruits for the winter

The beneficial properties of hawthorn flowers in the treatment of a number of diseases are more effective than in fruits. Therefore, they are also harvested for the winter.

The main enemy in the preparation of flowers - high humidity. Dry weather is necessary, which is complicated by a short flowering period, often lasting only 2-3 days.

Fully opened flowers are harvested. They are carefully cut together with a small part of the stem. It is better to do this in the morning when the dew is completely dry. The harvest is scattered in a dry, shaded and well-ventilated place.

Dried flowers are stored for up to a year in fabric bags, paper bags, wooden boxes with paper on the bottom.

In order to preserve the beneficial properties of hawthorn fruit as much as possible, they are also trying to be plucked in dry weather in September-October. After going through and washing out, the berries are dried at a temperature of up to + 50C. As a result, they darken and shrink, acquire a sweet astringent taste. Stored similar to flowers, but up to two years.

When harvesting hawthorn berries for the winter, they can be stored in the freezer. Enumerated and washed fruits are lightly dried on a towel, and then laid out in plastic containers with a lid.

Contraindications and possible harm

Any plant benefits only if it is properly applied, which is especially important in the case of cardiovascular diseases. Before independently applying the beneficial properties of hawthorn, it is necessary to consult a doctor, especially in the case of severe cardiac or kidney disorders.

• Reception for an excessively long time can cause heart rhythm depression.
• Eating too much fruit can cause mild poisoning.
• If treated on an empty stomach, there may be a spasm of the intestines or vessels, vomit. In this situation, it is worth taking infusions and tinctures two hours after eating, to reduce the concentration or dose of folk remedies.
• When treating hawthorn, you should not drink cold water right away, otherwise it may happen intestinal colic, paroxysmal pain.
• In some cases, hypotonics for more effective use of the beneficial properties of hawthorn in the treatment of heart disease is not to use the extracts of the fruit, and plant flowers.

Two types of hawthorn are common in the world - spiny and blood-red (it is also called common hawthorn).

Both species belong to the family of pink. In addition to wild forms, there are many garden varieties with large and sweet fruits.

Outwardly, they look like berries, in their everyday life they are called. But according to the botanical nomenclature they are small apples. And indeed, the fruits of garden forms reach a size of 4 cm and are very reminiscent of ratenka apples.

The composition and caloric content of hawthorn (fresh)

The British call it a May tree. This is a good honey plant, which is loved not only by bees, but also by people. Today, brushes of flowers are used to make healing infusions and decoctions. But more interest is the benefit and harm of hawthorn fruit, which directly depend on the composition of the plant.

The chemical composition of the fruit

The hawthorn fruit contains:

1. organic acids;
2. pectins in large quantities;
3. flavonoids (quercetin, hyperin, vitexin);
4. tannins;
5. triterpene and flavone glycosides;
6. fatty oils (in seeds);
7. sahara;
8. carotenoids;
9. vitamins - C, A, K, E, P.

The chemical composition of flowers

Properly dried flowers contain:

1. organic acids (chlorogenic, coffee);
2. essential oils;
3. flavonoids (hyperoside, quercetin, quercitrin);
4. choline, acetylcholine, trimethylcholine.

Nutritional value

In terms of food, calorie content  hawthorn fresh low. 100 g of apples contains only 59 kcal. They can be used with benefit for the organism in dietary nutrition, as in pulp there is a whole spectrum of vitamins.

Hawthorn fruits: useful properties and contraindications

Until now, scientists continue to study how certain substances in the composition of the fruit affect specific organs. Modern research confirms information from past centuries about how hawthorn is useful for the body.

Useful properties of hawthorn berries

The cardiovascular system

Flavonoid hyperoside has a cardiac stimulating effect. It has a positive effect on the strength of heart contractions, their frequency, contributes to the expansion of the coronary vessels.

Digestive system

  Fruits have an astringent effect. They relieve cramps and other manifestations of esophageal neurosis. As early as the 17th century, the plant was used as a remedy for disorders of the digestive system. Pectins in its composition bind compounds in the intestines that are harmful to the body, and then bring them out.

Liver and biliary tract

Chlorogenic acid has a choleretic effect.

Vessels

Quercitrin helps to reduce the permeability of capillaries, supports the elasticity of blood vessels. The fruits are indicated for the prevention of problems with cerebral circulation. They prevent the appearance of sclerotic changes in the coronary vessels.

Thyroid

Normalize organ function and relieve shortness of breath.

Organs of vision

Reduce the risk of cataract formation.

Nervous system

Possess sedative properties, eliminate insomnia.

Hormonal disorders

Helps to improve well-being for hormonal disorders in women, is useful in menopausal syndrome

Other medicinal properties of hawthorn fruit and preparations made from it are also known: antimicrobial, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and antitumor.

Contraindications and restrictions

With normal dosage contraindications are minimal. First of all - it is individual intolerance.

Caution should be exercised during pregnancy and lactation. Hawthorn can cause uterine tone.

Restrictions also apply to patients in post-stroke period and people suffering from serious kidney disease. Consultation with the doctor in these cases is necessary.

Hawthorn increases or decreases pressure

In popular literature there are various statements. Some believe that the most important benefit of hawthorn berries is the ability to reduce pressure. Others are convinced that this remedy is normalizing pressure in hypotensive and hypertensive patients.

In fact, such healing properties  Hawthorn confirmed only in vegetative-vascular dystonia associated with dysfunction of the nervous system. The fact is that hawthorn acts soothingly. Therefore, the pressure and normalized.

But due to high blood pressure, hawthorn is not the most effective remedy. You can only expect improvement if pressure surges are associated with psycho-emotional stress, with hypertension it will be ineffective.

The benefits of hawthorn for men

The plant has the ability to eliminate the primary symptoms of prostatitis and with a mild form of erectile dysfunction. And that's not all that hawthorn helps. For example, when painful sensations  in the groin, it helps reduce pain.

Is it possible to eat hawthorn fresh

Hawthorn can be eaten fresh adults, children, the elderly. In the fresh fruit is the richest vitamin composition. But what to do with fresh hawthorn, if its harvest is more than expected? The easiest way is to dry the berries. Drying can be used to make compotes and teas.

How to use fresh hawthorn

This is a wonderful dessert. It is better to eat after eating, as the fiber of raw pulp can irritate the stomach walls, especially with a tendency to gastritis. What can be made of hawthorn? Berries are added to fruit salads, ice cream and other desserts.

How many hawthorn berries can be eaten per day

The daily rate of fresh fruit - 150 grams per day.  When using jam, jam, marshmallow and mashed potatoes, it remains the same. With a significant increase in this figure, there may be pressure surges, disorders of the gastrointestinal tract, heart.

How to make hawthorn and how to drink

Brew, as a rule, dried raw materials. Before brewing hawthorn, its fruits must be crushed.

Then they are poured with boiling water and kept in a thermos for about 3 hours. The proportion of ingredients: 25 g of fruit / glass of water.

As maintenance therapy, 2 tbsp. l Infusion is taken three times a day before meals with:

1. neurosis;
2. insomnia;
3. arrhythmias;
4. angina pectoris;
5. tachycardia;
6. atherosclerosis;
7. catarrhal diseases.

Reception duration - no more than a month, with a 10-day break. If necessary, repeat the course.

With heart disease

Prepare an infusion of:

• 6 tbsp. l hawthorn berries;
• 6 tbsp. l motherwort grass;
• crushed raw materials pour 1.5 liters of boiling water;
• the container is closed, wrapped for a day;
• having filtered the infusion, it is taken in 200 ml three times a day.

Drink remedy after meals for three weeks. After a 7-day break, you can continue.

Insomnia Recipe

1. Dry berries (1 sl. L.) Or flowers (2 tbsp. L.) Hawthorn pour a glass of boiling water.
2. Insist at least an hour in a closed container.
3. Take the infusion 4 times a day.

Enough to drink it in 1 tbsp. l before eating.

Hawthorn tea with reduced hemoglobin

The use of hawthorn berries as a means to raise hemoglobin has long been known. For the prevention and treatment of tea prepared from 50 g of flowers and fruits in a glass of hot water.

Insist means half an hour. Accept after eating in the evening and morning. Drink 100 ml at a time.

When to collect hawthorn

The most useful and tasty - ripe berries rich red color. No need to rush to their collection, the brighter the color - the more nutrients in the fruit.

Early varieties begin to ripen at the end of August; later ones may not crumble from the tree until the end of October. Even frozen berries remain tasty and healthy.

How to store hawthorn

Harvest without loss of quality at home is stored only a few days. To extend the shelf life, berries canned for the winter. Recipes for making hawthorn for long-term storage differ in technology. The most optimal of them is drying.

How to dry hawthorn at home

For medicinal purposes, dried fruits are more commonly used. After collecting them, they are washed, the moisture is removed using a towel, and then dried in a dryer (temperature 40–60 ° C). You can use the oven.

  In this case, the berries poured on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, and sent to the oven with a temperature of 30 ° C to 40 ° C. Berries from time to time turn over. The doors of the oven should be ajar.

Is it possible to freeze hawthorn for the winter

The healing properties of the fruit when frozen remain. Freeze hawthorn only ripe. To do this, its fruits are washed, slightly dried in air, poured in a single layer on any tray and placed in a deep freeze chamber.

After 6–10 hours, the frozen raw material is poured into containers and put in the freezer.

Cooking hawthorn recipes for the winter

How to make hawthorn berries so that they are healthy and have excellent taste? Favorite hawthorn blanks are tinctures and wine. They just cook. And they are stored perfectly.

Recipe for hawthorn wine at home

The drink is prepared at any time of the year. Fresh and dried hawthorn fruits are suitable. Dried raw materials produce darker drinks with an original rich flavor.

Ingredients

• Hawthorn fruits (5 kg fresh or 1 kg dry).
• Boiled water - 10 liters.
• Sugar - 4 kg.
• 150 g raisins.

Cooking technology

• To ferment unwashed raisins pour 300 g of water and add 100 g of sugar. Put the sourdough jar in a warm place for 3 days.
• Dissolve 1 kg of sugar in water and pour hawthorn with this syrup (the wort should take up to 3/4 of the volume of the bottle). Add leaven.
• Put the container in a warm place, install a water seal.
• After 3 days, pour a liter of wort, stir it with 2 kg of sugar, then pour the wort back.
• After a week, strain the must, squeeze the berries and add another 1 kg of sugar to the container.
• Put fermentation tank for 35–40 days.

Recipe hawthorn tincture at home on vodka

Tincture is used for medicinal purposes to eliminate the effects of stress, normalize appetite and sleep, improve digestion.

Cooking technology

1. 1 cup of dried fruit pour 0.8 liters of high-quality vodka.
2. Insist 3 weeks in a dark place.
3. Fruits should become colorless, and the tincture on the contrary dark.
4. Strain the tincture.
5. You can add honey (1 tbsp. L.) And cinnamon sticks.
6. Insist another week.
7. Filter the precipitate.

Take tincture course duration of 3-4 weeks. Do this three times a day for 25 drops for half an hour before meals.