{"id":1037,"date":"2012-11-28T04:07:06","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T04:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2013-02-13T04:47:54","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T04:47:54","slug":"hawthorn-crataegus-spp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/?p=1037","title":{"rendered":"Hawthorn ~ Crataegus spp."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Hawthorn<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Latin name<\/em>: Crataegus spp.<\/p>\n

Family<\/em>: Rosaceae<\/p>\n

Part used<\/em>: flowers, leaves, berries (mainly historically)<\/p>\n

Habitat<\/em>: common hedge plant in Britain and Europe<\/p>\n

Main constituents<\/em>: amines, flavonoids (quercetin, vitexin), phenolic acids<\/p>\n

Energetics<\/em>: warming, sour<\/p>\n

Main herbal actions<\/em>: cardiac tonic, cardioprotective, hypotensive, anti-sclerotic<\/p>\n

Minor herbal actions<\/em>: diuretic, mucilage (berries), astringent (leaves), antioxidant, nutritious<\/p>\n

Main medicinal uses<\/em>: functional and organic heart disorders<\/span> (dyspnea, rapid and feeble heart action, angina, congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, cardiac hypertrophy, hypertension, hypotension)<\/p>\n

Minor medicinal uses<\/em>: hemorrhoids, venous stasis, arrhythmias<\/p>\n

Preparations<\/em>: infusion: 1 Tbsp\/cup water; 1:5 tincture: 60-120 gtt qd-qid, powder in capsules: 3-20 grams (Khalsa)<\/p>\n

Contraindications<\/em>: can decrease need for cardiac drugs<\/p>\n

Toxicity<\/em>: unknown<\/p>\n

Sources<\/em>: Sharol Tilgner, N.D.: Herbal Medicine from the Heart of the Earth<\/span>; Wren, R.C. Potter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hawthorn Latin name: Crataegus spp. Family: Rosaceae Part used: flowers, leaves, berries (mainly historically) Habitat: common hedge plant in Britain and Europe Main constituents: amines, flavonoids (quercetin, vitexin), phenolic acids Energetics: warming, sour Main herbal actions: cardiac tonic, cardioprotective, hypotensive, anti-sclerotic Minor herbal actions: diuretic, mucilage (berries), astringent (leaves), antioxidant, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318,291,317,75,1,214,92,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-sclerotic","category-cardio-tonic","category-cardioprotective","category-hypotensive","category-module1","category-sour","category-warming","category-western-herbs","column","threecol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions\/1425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}