Hawthorn is a fairly tall shrub (up to 4 meters). Its brown branches with purple tint are dotted with thorns. Leaves are located on short petioles, alternate. White inflorescences blooming in May-June have a rather unpleasant aroma. The fruits of the shrub look like red fleshy balls with a sweet and sour taste. They ripen from August to September. High therapeutic efficacy of the plant was noted at the end of the 18th century. The rich chemical composition (starches, organic acids, carotenoids, sugars, fatty oils, pectin, flavonoids) fully explains the beneficial properties of hawthorn berries. As a therapeutic raw material, they are successfully used with increased excitability, general poor health, nervous disorders, and cardiac abnormalities.
Hawthorn berries: use for insomnia
One hundred grams of fruit, crushed and filled with cold water (500 ml), boil for half an hour at the slowest fire and insist until completely cooled. The broth after straining is drunk after eating (50-100 ml). Also use tincture of hawthorn, manufactured by the pharmaceutical industry. It is evenly mixed with 20% propolis tincture and taken 20 drops before meals.
Berries of hawthorn: useful properties for hypertension
Fruits (100 g) are cleaned of seeds and poured ½ liter of cold water overnight. In the same infusion in the morning they boil for about 10 minutes. The cooled broth is filtered. They drink it three times a day in a glass. You can also make juice from ripe berries of hawthorn. To do this, 500 g of fruits are crushed, ½ cup of water is added to them, slightly heated (up to 40 ° C) and pressed in a juicer. Also taken three times a day, but only a tablespoon.
Hawthorn berries: use for heart disease
With cardioneurosis and suffocation during menopause, a teaspoon of shrubs (dried) is brewed with a glass of boiling water and left to warm for two hours. After this, the broth is filtered and drink it 40 ml before meals. Use for these purposes hawthorn berries and in collections. They are taken equally with the flowers of the same shrub, add a spoonful of hop grass, chop everything and mix thoroughly. Then measure out three tablespoons of the raw material, pour 0.6 l of boiling water over them, leave them for two hours in the heat, filter and drink three times a day from a third to half a glass of the obtained product. With ischemia of the heart , tincture of the fruits of hawthorn is effective. At home, it is prepared as follows. Ten grams of dried berries are poured with vodka (100 ml) for 10 days. The filtered tincture is measured in drops: 30 drops each. thrice a day. Juice squeezed not only from fresh fruits, but also from the leaves of the bush also helps. It is taken 200 ml three times a day, while adding a spoonful of honey.
Hawthorn berries: application in cosmetology
Shrubs are used for making masks. Green berries are ground to a puree state, seeds are selected and honey and a little sour cream or raw egg yolk or cream are added. Such masks have a healing, nourishing and tonic effect. They well relieve skin fatigue, removes acne, porosity and roughness.
Hawthorn berries: cooking application
In the steppe part of Crimea, as well as in the Caucasus, the fruits of shrubs growing in that area are canned, jelly is boiled from them. Dry berries are ground into flour, which is quite sweet. Pancakes are baked from it, pies are filled with it. It is in a certain ratio added to wheat flour and homemade cookies are prepared.