Hawthorn tablets: instruction and description

Hawthorn is a shrub or a tree not more than five meters high, which grows on the territory of Russia everywhere. We cultivate about fifty species of this unpretentious, but very useful plant.

Hawthorn is a long-liver, there are specimens that are three hundred and four hundred years old. The plant is deservedly famous for its unique healing properties.

Healing properties of hawthorn

Since ancient times, mankind has used hawthorn to prepare medicinal broths, tinctures, teas. Curative qualities include fruits, flowers, seeds, tree bark, leaves.

Our ancestors successfully treated with hawthorn insomnia, hypertension, arrhythmia of the heart muscle. With his help, the nervous system was calming, and heart attacks were stopped. An unusual influence of the plant on health was noted by Avicenna. In the nineteenth century, doctors widely used hawthorn preparations to treat angina pectoris, seeking complete healing of patients. Not for nothing physicians called it the most valuable discovery of the nineteenth century.

In modern medicine, based on hawthorn, drugs have been created that are used:

• To reduce blood pressure and calm the nervous system in neuroses;
• Removal of attacks of tachycardia, angina pectoris, atrial fibrillation;
• To prevent atherosclerosis of cerebral vessels;
• For the treatment of insomnia, dyspnea;
• To strengthen and relieve fatigue of the heart muscle;
• For prophylactic purposes in the elderly to prevent changes in the cardiovascular system.

This is not a complete list of the scope of use of hawthorn to maintain health and treat diseases. Remarkably, it has almost no contraindications and is easily tolerated by patients without undesirable side effects.

What is useful for hawthorn?

Healing properties of the plant are determined by useful substances, which are contained literally in each of its parts.

The hawthorn flower contains:

• Flavonoids (their greatest concentration is in buds), they contribute to the strengthening of the walls of the blood vessels and the cardiovascular system as a whole;
• Chlorogenic and caffeic acid, which are good antioxidants;
• Choline;
• Carotenoids;
• essential oil.

Fruits contain:

• Flavonoids (less than in flowers);
• Organic acids (chlorogenic, coffee, lemon, krutegusovuyu and others);
• Glycosides;
• tannins;
• Vitamins, including vitamin C, K, beta-carotene;
• Saponins.
• Choline and others.

The leaves of the plant are useful as follows: chlorogenic, coffee, crotal and other acids are their useful constituents.

The bark of the hawthorn contains glycoside esculin.

Seeds of fruits are known for the content of fatty acids and amygdalin glycoside.

All these useful substances contained in hawthorn, can use it as a raw material for the production of various dosage forms.

Hawthorn: medicinal forms

From the plant the following forms of medicinal preparations are prepared:

• Hawthorn extract (liquid).
• Hawthorn extract in tablets.
• Fresh flower juice.
• Infusion of hawthorn from flowers (fresh and dried).
• Infusion of fruits (fresh and dried).
• Tincture of hawthorn on ethyl alcohol.
• Capsules.
• Hawthorn tablets.
• Dry fruits and flowers.

In the pharmacy network are also sold drugs that have in their composition hoods extract. Virtually all drops from the heart contain this component.

In the pharmaceutical industry, the preparation "Hawthorn" is developed and manufactured in tablets. It is very convenient for patients.

Hawthorn: tablet for the heart

Agree, the most convenient form of medicine - a pill, or even better, if it does not need to be washed down with water. In the pharmacy network, a drug is sold, which is called - "Hawthorn" (tablets for resorption).

It was developed by order of the company "Natur Product Europe BV" And is under its control in the Netherlands. Also in pharmacies is sold a similar product manufactured in France.

The cost of the drug today in Russia ranges from 146 to 210 rubles for 20 tablets.

The composition of the preparation is natural. One tablet contains:

• 100 milligrams of dry hawthorn extract
• Auxiliary components (aromatic additive, aspartame, magnesium stearate, etc.).

Tablets are brownish-gray with specks of white and dark brown color, have a specific smell. In order to avoid the purchase of counterfeits, pay attention: each tablet must have a logo of the manufacturer (NP on the background of the tree).

Therapeutic properties of the drug "Hawthorn" in tablets

Instructions for the use of a medicinal preparation refer to cardiotonic agents of plant origin.

It promotes vasodilation, increases the ability of the heart to pump blood. This effect is achieved due to the high concentration of flavonoids contained in the extract of hawthorn. When the pill is taken, the patient has normal blood coagulability, blood pressure decreases. The drug has a mild calming effect.

In the treatment of hawthorn heart failure, the following occurs: after taking hawthorn tablets, the enzymes weakening the heart muscle are blocked, enabling it to increase the ability to distill blood through the blood vessels. This is especially important at the beginning of the disease, when it is still possible to prevent the development of the disease and not take strong chemicals.

Hawthorn tablets are also able to protect the cardiovascular system from plaque damage in the coronary arteries.

Indications and contraindications to the use of the drug "Hawthorn"

The drug is indicated for use in the following cases:

• With angina pectoris to reduce pain in the chest;
• Patients with congestive heart failure to improve cardiac function;
• With various cardiovascular diseases (cardialgia, neurocirculatory dystonia and others).

Obvious counter-indications do not have hawthorn in tablets. The instruction to the drug prohibits its use:

• Children up to the age of eighteen;
• Pregnant women and mothers breastfeeding;
• Persons who are allergic to the components of the drug.

Side effects are possible if the instructions for use are not observed:

• Urticaria, redness, peeling of the skin with increased sensitivity to the components of the tablet;
• Drowsiness, dizziness, lowering blood pressure when taking large doses of the drug.

All side effects occur with a reduced dose of taking or canceling the drug.

For any undesirable effects of taking the medication, you should consult your doctor.

Do not take the drug, the expiration date of which has expired (three years or more have passed since the release).

How to take "Hawthorn"

Hawthorn tablets for resorption should be kept in the mouth until completely dissolved, do not drink water.

As a rule, the medicine is taken three times a day for one or two tablets. The duration of treatment is determined by the doctor. Usually, a course appointment takes three to four weeks, then a break and a second course after the doctor's recommendations.

If, together with the hawthorn tablets, the patient takes cardiac preparations containing glycosides, cardiotonic effects can be intensified, and when the hawthorn is taken together with the blockers, a sharp decrease in pressure may be possible.

Attention: joint use of drugs is done only under the supervision of a doctor.

Some tips and warnings

Pain in the heart, behind the breastbone - a very serious call, this may be the onset of heart disease. Do not count only on the help of hawthorn, consult a doctor.

Take medicines, medicinal supplements, including pills hawthorn only on the advice of a doctor.

Be wary of taking any medications with hawthorn if you have low blood pressure, allergies, insomnia or asthma.

Do not stop taking the medication yourself without consulting a doctor.

No matter how attractive the drug is and does not seem to you safe, do not risk your health. First, consultation with a doctor, then - taking pills.

Be healthy!