People around the world revered hawthorn. This plant is known to mankind since ancient times. There are many types of hawthorn and only somewhat recognized officially and is used in medicine to treat various diseases.
There are more than 1200 species of this plant in the world, of which 15 grows in Russia. It is noteworthy that each view can differ much from each other not only outwardly, but also with its useful properties.
Hawthorn has an interesting legend. The plant was read from ancient times, in Greek myths mentioned a barbed bloody hawthorn who was a faith for newlyweds. The bride was married in a wreath woven from the branches of the hawthorn, and the king of England found the crown in a hawthorn bush.
Hawthorn has a lot of legends. According to some nations, he was considered a very dangerous and magical plant due to prickly branches. People believed that this way the plant could protect them from evil spirits, so the branches of the hawthorn were fencing the entrance to the house, and to protect the babies from the devil, to the cradles also tied a hawthorn twigs.
In other countries, people read spells from evil spirits and tried to drive out illness by waving a hawthorn branches over the sick bed. But the inhabitants of Moldova tried to eradicate this plant in every way, because they considered him the culprit of tumors and injections. Despite this, most of the signs used this plant (fruits, twigs and leaves) to prepare bravery and medicinal drugs. Recipes were kept secret and were not transmitted to anyone. Only a century later, humanity learned about the beneficial properties of the hawthorn.
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Popular Dosage Form is a hawthorn tincture. For sale medicine in any pharmacy and costs literally a penny. Get a tincture of bright red hawthorn fruits with alcohol adding. The tincture is widely used to improve the work of the heart, during atherosclerosis and to restore the nervous system. The tincture works in such a way that if a person has increased pressure, taking medicine, you can normalize blood pressure.
Our site offers to familiarize yourself with the benefit of the hawthorn tincture:
- normalizes the work of the heart and blood vessels;
- removes stress;
- reduces pressure;
- improves vessels;
- removes vessels of vessels;
- Reduces Cholesterol level;
- prevents the deposition of cholesterol plaques;
- has a light sedative effect;
- stops aging processes;
- acts as a common and toning agent.
Doctors often call the tincture of hawthorn medicine for the old heart and recommend the elderly to apply a tincture to strengthen the heart muscle.
Harmonic tincture is useful not only to strengthen the heart and vessels, but also for the treatment of nervous disorders and in the period Klimaksa, To help the body overcome hormonal restructuring.
How to take a tincture
According to experts, the fruit tincture of a hawthorn is important to take not only during the period of exacerbation, but also as a preventive. If you decide to improve the work of the heart muscle and at the same time take cardiac drugs, do not forget to inform your attending physician. In this case, you need to reduce the dosage of drugs.
Take a tincture of hawthorn course. It is undesirable to take the drug chaotic, the systematic is important here to feel a positive effect. Drinking hawthorn preferably within a month. One-time dose is 30 drops, you can take a tincture 3 times a day. It is best to dissolve the drug in water or immediately put it off with a small amount of liquid. Drink tincture you need 30 minutes before meals. The doctor can recommend to extend the course of treatment with a hawthorn to 1.5 months.
If you have the opportunity to assemble the berries of the hawthorn in an environmentally friendly zone, then try to cook the tincture yourself at home. By the way, for this you can use not only the fruits, but also dry flowers plants. According to many herbalists, the colors contain more benefits than in the fruits.
You can't collect raw materials at one time, so you can choose some bushes: from one bush you can collect in the spring flowers, and from the other - the ripe fruit of the hawthorn. It is important not to miss the moment of collection of colors, a plant «throws out» Buds that are quickly revealed and bloom only 2-3 days.
The collected raw materials (flowers and fruits) must be dried in a dry, well ventilated place so that there is no moisture and the raw materials did not fall straight sun rays. Dry raw material for cooking tincture in the glass container and close the lid.
Take in equal proportions Fruits and hawthorn flowers, grind and fill with alcohol (fortress 70%). On 1 part of dry raw materials Take 10 parts of alcohol (25 g / 100 g). The tincture must be pouring into a glass container (preferably from dark glass), close a tight lid and insist at room temperature for 3 weeks. Then the medicine must be strain through a four-layer gauze and you can take.
When there is no possibility to purchase alcohol, you can prepare tincture on vodka. To do this, take 1 st.L. raw materials and pour 200 ml of vodka, insist medicine during the week.
Tincture hawthorn. Harm
Contraindications at the hawthorn tincture of a little, but also with them you need to get acquainted to not harm your health. So, it is impossible to take tincture to children under 12, as well as those women who will soon become moms and wear a baby under the heart - for them, even a small dose of alcohol may damage. Only in exceptional cases (more than 12 weeks of pregnancy and baby breastfeeding) The doctor may appoint a tincture of a hawthorn. For the same reason, it is impossible to take tincture and children.
Due to the fact that the hawthorn tincture lowers the pressure, it is undesirable to take people with reduced pressure.
In addition, contraindications for the use of hawthorn tincture are such diseases:
- vegeto-vascular dystonia;
- flicker arrhythmia;
- tachycardia;
- tendency to allergic reactions;
- heart disease.
If you exceed the dosage specified in the manual, then drowsiness may occur and even slowing the pulse. So be careful not to harm yourself.
Hawthorn tincture brings at the same time benefit and harm. For some people, the benefits are that blood begins to circulate faster, and other people have a strong pressure drops. In any case, it is necessary to listen to your body in the first days of reception of the medicinal preparation. be healthy!
