Tincture of hawthorn is a reddish liquid. It is transparent with a pleasant smell. It is stored in a dark glass vial with a tight lid at room temperature.
The composition of the fruits of hawthorn includes flavonoids, organic acids, vitamins, pectins, glycosides and tannins. Tincture of hawthorn relieves the nervous system, helps a person fall asleep. At the same time, the work of the autonomic nervous system is normalized. It is especially useful to use the drug for cardioneurosis and autonomic disorders with menopause in women.
The walls of blood vessels relax, blood pressure decreases, the spasm of the coronary arteries decreases, the frequency of heart pain attacks decreases - all these factors allow the use of tincture of hawthorn for heart diseases, to reduce the dose of cardiac glycosides, for hypertension and heart rhythm disturbance.
But you should always remember that antiarrhythmic drugs and tincture of hawthorn are poorly combined. Hawthorn has a calming effect on the occurrence of heart pain during autonomic disorders. With a small extrasystole, tincture restores the heart rhythm, and with serious rhythm disturbances, such as atrial fibrillation, the use of antiarrhythmic drugs is required.
With an overdose of cardiac glycosides, you can improve your well-being by taking tincture of hawthorn, which will mitigate their negative effect on heart function. Hawthorn is able to strengthen the heart muscle, calm the pulse, therefore it is used to prevent angina attacks, with hyperthyroidism and angioneurosis. In addition, hawthorn has a pronounced diuretic and choleretic effect on humans.
Biologically active substances of hawthorn positively affect fat metabolism, reduce blood cholesterol, prevent the formation of plaques on the walls of blood vessels and have antioxidant properties, and inhibit the aging of the body.
Preparing a tincture of hawthorn from the fruits, flowers or leaves of hawthorn. 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. Store the tincture in a dark glass bottle, take 20-30 drops before meals for a month.
To get tincture from the fruit, you need to take 100 g of dry hawthorn fruit, grind them in a mortar, pour a liter of alcohol and leave for 20 days in the dark and cool. Strain the finished tincture, pour into a clean vessel and take 25 drops three times a day before meals.
It must be remembered that, like any medicine, tincture of hawthorn has contraindications. Do not use it:
- children under 12 years old;
- pregnant women in the first trimester;
- nursing mothers;
- with individual intolerance.
With great care, tincture should be used simultaneously with cardiac glycosides and antiarrhythmic drugs.
In medical practice, there have been no cases of drug 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 to the skin may develop.
This widely known drug has been used since antiquity in the treatment of heart disease. It is prescribed for atherosclerosis and hypertension, with angina pectoris and arrhythmia, with neurosis and insomnia. Hawthorn enhances blood flow in the vessels of the heart and brain, improves physical activity and enhances mental activity.