All cores should know this - useful properties of hawthorn and contraindications

Tell us about the beneficial properties of hawthorn and contraindications, if any. With age, I developed tachycardia, there is such a condition that I can neither walk nor sleep. This is the third time the cardiologist has changed the medications, they help, but not for long, then the attacks start again. Kuma advised her to drink hawthorn decoction, she says, he stabilized her heartbeat and pulse. Can I drink it if I am also hypertensive?

In spring it will delight you with fragrant white flowers, and closer to autumn - with delicious and very healthy scarlet berries. It is interesting that not only the fruits are valuable, but also all other parts of the plant. The beneficial properties of hawthorn and contraindications have long been studied by folk medicine, and even doctors recognize its healing effect. Sprawling bushes or small trees can be found almost everywhere, in forests, fields, along roads and even in gardens. Hawthorn is very tenacious and unpretentious, and birds love to feast on its fruits.

Useful properties of hawthorn and contraindications

The plant owes its healing power to the rich composition, first of all, of the berries themselves. If you eat a handful of fruits every day, then no cold or flu will "break through" a strong immune system.

Leaves with flowers, and even bark of a bush contain many useful substances, namely:

• flavonoids;
• tannins;
• pectins;
• organic acids;
• vitamins.

Hawthorn flowers and berries are used to prepare syrups, drops, elixirs and tablets. They are part of many different pharmaceutical products, for example, Valemidin, Amrit, Demidov syrup, Cardiovalena.

Why is hawthorn useful?

At home, decoctions are made from flowers for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. The leaves are also brewed and taken in a decoction for endocrine, nervous and digestive diseases. AND hawthorn fruit you can eat just like that or dry or make juices, decoctions, water infusions and alcoholic tinctures from them. Berries perfectly strengthen the immune system and have a positive effect on the body.

All hawthorn-based products help get rid of many problems, namely:

• restore heart rate;
• lower blood pressure, blood glucose and indicators of "bad" cholesterol;
• relieve headache, symptoms of menopause, painful attacks with an ulcer;
• cleanse the liver;
• soothe and relieve depression and other disorders of the nervous system;
• restore metabolism;
• treat skin diseases;
• help with diseases of the genitourinary system.

When is it not recommended to take hawthorn

Only long-term use of tinctures will give a positive effect, at least 1 month. However, hawthorn can not be abused, as it can backfire in the form of low blood pressure, intestinal cramps, vomiting and even poisoning.

Given this effect, you cannot take drugs and home remedies from hawthorn:

• pregnant and lactating;
• children (only from 13 years old);
• with hypotension;
• in case of acute renal failure;
• with exacerbation of an ulcer;
• in the post-stroke period.

In addition, treatment with folk tinctures is not recommended to be combined with taking heart medications.

The benefits and harms of hawthorn