Gemmotherapy Crataegus oxycantha (Hawthorne)
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Latest Edit: Hector 2014-02-24 (EDT)
| See Also | Gemmotherapy |
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| See Also | Botanical Crataegus oxyacantha |
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Crataegus oxycantha, or Hawthorn is a spiny shrum with many branches. It can grow up to four metres high with the rare exception of twelve metres, and is found in hedges and wood edges of the temperate regions. This shrub is hardy and can live for more than two hundred years, some even surpassing thousands of years. It has beautiful flowers that grow in small clusters, usually white but sometimes pink and have an unexpected "rotten fish" smell to them. This shrub also contains fruit called "haws" that are bright red berries.[1]
Key notes
- Cardiac symptoms and conditions[2]
- Psychological emotional heart issues
Therapeutic actions
- Cardiac tonic, possessing calming properties of the flowers (cardiac rhythm, tension), as well as tonic influence of the fruit.
- Positive inotropic and chronotropic action. Detoxifies the heart and reinforces the contractibility of the heart.
- Sedative for the central nervous system
- Intervenes with any degenerative disease leading to tissue sclerosis
Clinical indications
- Cardiovascular system: arterial antisclerotic action and works as a heart drainer. Good remedy for functional arrhythmias, cardiac erythrism, heart failure, precordial pain, sequelae after infarction
- Regulates blood pressure
- Nervous system sedative: acts as an anxiolytic
- Endocrine system: Hyperthyroidism
- Digestive system: helps to regulate compulsive trends leading to obesity
- Respiratory system: calms non-allergic dyspnea of intrinsic origin
- Obesity by regulation of the nervous system
