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Description of the medicine: Fruits of hawthorn (Fructus Crataegi)

FRUIT OF HERBAL (Fructus Crataegi).

Collected in a full-ripening phase and dried fruits of wild-growing and cultivated shrubs or small hawthorn trees of smoothed [Crategus laevigata (Roir) DS], hawthorn prickly (Crategus ouhasantha sensu Rojakr.), Hawthorn Korolkov (Crategus Corolkovii L.) and other species, Sem. Rosaceae (Rosaceae). Fruits contain flavonoids (not less than 0.06%), choline, acetylcholine, tannins, phytosterols, etc.

The presence in the hawthorn of the triterpenic acids: olean, ursolic and kratheva, which enhance blood circulation in the coronary vessels of the heart and in the vessels of the brain and increase the sensitivity of the myocardium to the action of cardiac glycosides. The pharmacological properties of hawthorn preparations are not fully understood.

There is evidence that hawthorn preparations somewhat increase the contractions of the heart muscle and at the same time reduce its excitability.

Hawthorn preparations are used for functional disorders of cardiac activity, angioedema, atrial fibrillation and paroxysmal tachycardia (with mild forms, in addition to treatment with the main antiarrhythmic drugs).

Assign a liquid extract (Extractum Crataegi fluidum) or tincture (Tinctura Crataegi) from the fruits of hawthorn.

Ext.: Ex. Сrаtаеgi fluidi 25 ml

DS For 20 - 30 drops 3 - 4 times a day (before meals)

R: T-ryee Convallariae

T-rae Valerianae aa 10 ml

Extr. Сrаtаеgi fluidi 5 ml

Mehntholi 0.05

M.DS