Home » Life » Health » Hawthorn – natural heart supportIn Serbia, red and white hawthorn are seen most often, and their fruits are used.They grow in Europe.They can be found in meadows, thickets, forest edges, rocky mountains.Red hawthorn (Crategus oxyacantha) is a branched shrub up to five meters high, covered with thorns.The leaves are located on a long stem, are oval in shape and have three lobes.The fruit is an oval red berry, on which there are sepals, and it bears a pair of seeds.The ripening period is from September to October.White hawthorn is a tree up to eight meters high, with many thorns.Leaves as well as shoots are covered with hairs.The flowers are whitish, but the stamens are red.This type of hawthorn blooms a little later than Red Hawthorn.The fruit contains only one seed.*Composition*: Hawthorn fruit (Crataegi fructus)*Properties*: Hawthorn fruit contains cardiotonic amines, glucosides, oligomeric procyanidins, flavonoids, tannins, saponins, phosphoric acid, mineral salts of potassium, calcium, sodium and fructose.The active ingredients of the hawthorn fruit have a favorable effect on the blood supply to the heart muscle, the strength of heart contraction, harmonizing the heart rhythm and normalizing blood pressure.*Hawthorn fruit tea*: is a pleasant refreshing drink whose use is recommended: for the feeling of pressure and suffocation in the area of the heart, for the prevention of high blood pressure, as well as for milder forms of weakened heart after infectious diseases.*Restrictions in use*: The use of hawthorn fruit tea is not recommended during pregnancy and breastfeeding, as well as for children under 12 years of age.*Side effects*: The active ingredients of hawthorn fruit can affect the metabolism of certain drugs, so we recommend that you consult a doctor or pharmacist about the use of this tea in addition to regular therapy.*Method of preparation and use of tea*: Pour one teaspoon of chopped hawthorn fruit with 150 ml of boiling water, cover the pot, let it stand for 15-30 minutes.Strain and drink three times a day.Follow us on our Facebook and Instagram pages, but also on our Twitter account.Subscribe to the PDF edition of the newspaper Danas.The Danas Readers' Club is a community of subscribers to the daily newspaper Danas, who, in addition to exclusive access to the newspaper in PDF format the night before the printed edition hits the newsstands, also have access to the entire online archive of the newspaper.The membership card also provides over 50 discounts from our partners, as well as invitations to our events and promotions.Today, it is probably the last bastion of professional journalism in Serbia.Copyright ©1995 - 2017, Danas daily, Alekse Nenadovića 19-23, Belgrade