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The medicinal properties of red hawthorn have long been known to many. Healing tinctures, medicinal decoctions, jams, and marshmallows are made from the berries. Black hawthorn, the properties and contraindications of this plant are less known. This plant is also useful and has many healing properties.
Composition and nutritional value of black hawthorn
The composition of black berries is of great value, since they contain vitamins and microelements necessary for the body at any age. The unique berries contain:
- vitamin C;
- B vitamins;
- beta-carotene, which resists the formation of cancer cells;
- Vitamin A - slows down the aging process.
The calorie content of berries is very low - 50 Kcal per 100 grams of product.
Content of vitamins and microelements
The beneficial properties of the chokeberry variety are due to the content of the following microelements:
- copper;
- zinc;
- magnesium;
- iron.
This is useful, the product helps reduce blood pressure and increase hemoglobin. For heart diseases, decoctions of dark berries are useful because they reduce blood pressure and normalize blood sugar.
How many calories are in black hawthorn?
The beneficial properties of black hawthorn are combined with dietary ones. Drinks and dishes using the plant are consumed without fear of gaining weight, since 100 grams of the product contains 52 Kcal. The main property - lowering blood pressure, fighting cholesterol deposits - makes the berry indispensable for patients with diabetes mellitus, increased weight, and atherosclerosis. The healing qualities of the product help alleviate the symptoms of heart pathologies with high blood pressure, strengthen blood vessels, and tidy up the nervous system.
Beneficial properties of black hawthorn
Aronia hawthorn has beneficial properties that can be used at any age. Berries:
- lower blood pressure;
- normalize blood sugar levels;
- normalize sleep;
- have a calming effect;
- reduce anxiety;
- help cells recover;
- fight cancer cells;
- strengthen the immune system.
Tea from black hawthorn is drunk for medicinal purposes during colds and inflammatory diseases, since recovery will come faster. This is a natural antibiotic that can fight viruses, infections, and improve blood quality.
Which hawthorn is healthier: red or black?
The healing properties of the two types of hawthorn are similar. They differ in growing conditions. Red varieties are more frost-resistant and can grow in the northern hemispheres. Black is a more southern variety. Both varieties lower blood pressure, have medicinal properties, strengthen the immune system, and fight insomnia, stress, and nervous tension.
Both types of fruits contain healing essential oils, trace elements, fructose, crategic acid, carotene, ascorbic acid, flavonoids, and starch.
Previously, traditional medicine recipes did not even specify which hawthorn was needed for a medicinal infusion or decoction. They enjoyed equal success.
What diseases does black hawthorn help with?
Black hawthorn is beneficial for various pathologies:
- atherosclerosis — infusions lower cholesterol, reduce the number of cholesterol plaques;
- arrhythmia — a decoction of chokeberry successfully helps restore heart rhythm;
- epilepsy - prevents attacks;
- insomnia — a decoction before bed is great for helping you fall asleep and relieve stress after a working day;
- pancreatitis — it is enough to eat several fresh berries a day to alleviate the condition;
- hypertension - reduces blood pressure when taken regularly;
- stress - An excellent sedative.
The product helps with anemia and helps increase hemoglobin. Strengthens blood vessels, allows you to maintain youth, a healthy heart, strong blood vessels, iron nerves.
Traditional recipes help against tachycardia, rheumatism, headaches, liver diseases, biliary tract diseases, and hyperthyroidism.
The high content of vitamin C helps strengthen the immune system, maintain vital energy, and increase body tone. A healing decoction resists viral infections. Traditional treatment recipes help with various pathologies; to use hawthorn as a medicine, you must first consult a doctor who can check for an allergic reaction and the presence of contraindications to the use of a folk remedy. It is important to understand that herbal treatment does not replace traditional therapy, but serves as a healing support.
What can be prepared from black hawthorn
Black hawthorn with all its medicinal properties and contraindications will help with various diseases.There are a variety of recipes: jams, decoctions, preserves, tinctures. Here are a few time-tested recipes:
- Pour a tablespoon of fruit into a glass of boiling water, leave for 2 hours, drink 2 large spoons three times a day.
- Pass fresh hawthorn through a meat grinder, add peppermint, roll into balls. Take 2 tbsp to strengthen the heart. spoons of balls three times a day.
- Tincture with alcohol: you need to take 4 tablespoons of fruit and pour two glasses of 70% alcohol. Place in a dark place for a week. Take 30 drops, mixing with water.
- To prepare hawthorn jam, you need to grind the berries with sugar in equal proportions, add citric acid and cook until the desired thickness. Then place in hot sterilized jars and roll up. The result is a wonderful sweet anti-cold remedy for the winter.
- To lower blood pressure, a decoction of hawthorn berries, motherwort herbs, chamomile, and dried herbs is excellently used. All components are taken in equal quantities. 2 tablespoons of the mixture in half a glass of boiling water. Leave for an hour and take three times a day.
This is an incomplete list of recipes; you can prepare marshmallows at home, it all depends on the desired result of using the berries for medicinal purposes.
Restrictions and contraindications for use
Chokeberry hawthorn has not only benefits, but also harm. There are certain restrictions on eating berries in large quantities. These are people with low blood pressure. Berries lower blood pressure; chronic hypotensive people should not indulge in these fruits. Fainting and problems with the pulse may occur.
Pregnant women should be careful when taking it; hawthorn is contraindicated during lactation and for children under 12 years of age.If we are talking about an alcohol tincture, it should not be taken by people prone to alcohol addiction or those with liver problems.
In case of an overdose, heart rhythm disturbances and intestinal dysfunction may occur.
There is an allergy to hawthorn. This is a rare case, but individual intolerance becomes a contraindication.
Conclusion
Black hawthorn, whose properties and contraindications have been known since ancient times, is not inferior in usefulness to red varieties. This is a southern variety of medicinal plant that helps hypertensive patients, diabetics, heart patients, and also improves immunity and helps fight insomnia. A decoction of black berries will relieve stress and anxiety after a hard day at work. The main thing is to take into account the presence of contraindications and, in case of chronic pathologies, consult a doctor before starting herbal treatment. Then the efficiency will be much greater.
