Medicinal Flora Herbarium: Hawthorn (Crataegus Monogyna)

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Medicinal Flora Herbarium Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna) September 2013 [pic] Contents Section 1: MEET THE HAWTHORN Introduction Cultivation Scientific classification Botanical and common names A closer look Section 2: HISTORY, LEGEND AND CULTURE Medicinal history Legend, lore and magic Christianity Literature, music and art Section 3: HAWTHORN THE HEALER Uses and properties Chemical composition Clinical evidence Taking hawthorn Precautions, side effects and contraindications Section 4: THE VERSATILE HAWTHORN Hawthorn and its companions Wildlife, veterinary and other human benefits The contradictory hawthorn Conclusion Appendix A: The Stages of Heart Failure - New York Heart Association Classification List of Plates Bibliography Section 1: Meet the Hawthorn Insert Dried Specimen The seeds in the berries beaten to powder being drank in wine, are held singularly good against the stone, and are good for the dropsy. The distilled water of the flowers stay the lask. The seed cleared from the down, bruised and boiled in wine, and drank, is good for inward tormenting pains. If cloths or sponges be wet in the distilled water, and applied to any place wherein thorns and splinters, or the like, do abide in the flesh, it will notably draw them forth.[1] With these words Nicholas Culpeper enthusiastically hailed the ‘virtues’ of the hawthorn in his famous herbal first published over three hundred and fifty years ago. He claimed that the hawthorn’s medicinal properties are effective in treating gallstones, fluid retention, diarrhea, internal pains and for drawing splinters. He also wrote that it was not his intention to trouble his readers with a description of

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