Hawthorn tincture is a reddish liquid. It is transparent, with a pleasant smell. Store in a dark glass vial with a tight lid at room temperature.
The composition of hawthorn fruit includes flavonoids,organic acids, vitamins, pectins, glycosides and tannins. Tincture of hawthorn removes the excitation of the nervous system, helps a person fall asleep. At the same time, the work of the vegetative nervous system is normalized. It is especially useful to use the drug for cardioneuroses and autonomic disorders in menopause in women.
The walls of the blood vessels relax,arterial pressure decreases, coronary artery spasm is relieved, the frequency of cardiac pain attacks decreases — all these factors make it possible to use hawthorn tincture for heart diseases, to reduce the dose of cardiac glycosides, for hypertension and heart rhythm disturbances.
Но всегда стоит помнить, что антиаритмические drugs and tincture of hawthorn are poorly combined. Hawthorn has a calming effect on the occurrence of heart pain in vegetative disorders. With a slight extrasystole, the tincture restores the heart rhythm, and for serious rhythm disturbances such as atrial fibrillation, the use of antiarrhythmic drugs is required.
With an overdose of cardiac glycosides canimprove well-being by taking hawthorn tincture, which will reduce their negative effect on the heart. Hawthorn is able to strengthen the heart muscle, calm the pulse, and therefore is used to prevent attacks of angina pectoris, hyperthyroidism and angioneurosis. In addition, hawthorn has a pronounced diuretic and choleretic effect on humans.
Biologically active substances of hawthornhave a positive effect on fat metabolism, reduce cholesterol in the blood, prevent the formation of plaques on the walls of blood vessels and have antioxidant properties, prevent aging of the body.
Preparing hawthorn tincture of fruits, flowersor hawthorn leaves. When preparing tinctures from flowers, plants take 1 tbsp. l of vegetable raw materials, pour a glass of vodka and insist a week in a dark place with the lid closed. Keep the tincture should be in a dark glass bottle, take 20-30 drops before meals for a month.
For tincture of the fruit must be taken 100 gdry hawthorn fruit, grind them in a mortar, pour a liter of alcohol and insist 20 days in the dark and cool. Strain the prepared tincture, pour into a clean vessel and take 25 drops three times a day before meals.
It must be remembered that, like any medicine, hawthorn tincture has contraindications. Do not use it:
- children under 12;
- pregnant women in the first trimester;
- nursing mothers;
- with individual intolerance.
With great care, you need to apply the tincture simultaneously with cardiac glycosides and anti-arrhythmic drugs.
In medical practice, there were no casesdrug overdose. But if hawthorn tincture was used in large quantities, an overdose occurred against the background of domestic alcohol abuse. In this condition, side effects are observed: dizziness, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, drowsiness, bradycardia, and hypotension. Allergic reactions may develop on the skin.
This is a well-known drug.used since antiquity in the treatment of heart disease. It is prescribed for atherosclerosis and hypertension, for angina and arrhythmias, for neurosis and insomnia. Hawthorn increases blood flow in the vessels of the heart and brain, improves physical activity and enhances mental activity.
