Tincture of hawthorn with vodka at home

Tincture of hawthorn on alcohol was introduced into the list of medicines recognized by official medicine by E. Yu. Shass during the Great Patriotic War. The author of numerous works on herbal medicine has recommended it for the treatment of heart disease.

The properties of hawthorn to stop pain in angina pectoris and calm the nervous system were proved by British scientists at the end of the 19th century. But the plant was used by the ancient Greek military doctor Dioscorides and Avicenna. In the East, hawthorn has been used to treat various diseases of the intestines and nervous system for centuries, and in combination with wine - the heart.

The benefits and harms of hawthorn tincture

All types of hawthorn are very similar in chemical composition, one can be distinguished as a medicinal plant, and at the same time others cannot be discarded. In Europe, the most common fruits and flowers are Blood Red, Thorny (Common) and Monopathic. The Russians also harvest Altai and Daurian hawthorns, which are not inferior to the previous species.

Useful properties and contraindications of hawthorn tincture are due to the chemical composition of the plant. But, besides this, you should pay attention to the place where the medicinal raw materials were collected, it should not be exposed to anthropogenic pollution.

Tinctures should not be taken by pregnant and lactating women, children under 12 years of age and with hypersensitivity. With caution and only as prescribed by a doctor, they are drunk with alcoholism, liver and brain diseases, and taking any heart medications. Without prior consultation, the use of hawthorn tincture with heart rate medications can be life-threatening.

Composition of hawthorn tincture

Tincture is a liquid dosage form consisting of hawthorn and vodka or 40-70% alcohol. Official medicine uses berries and flowers, folk medicine did not ignore leaves, young shoots and bark.

The fruits contain:

• sugars (up to 10%), mostly fructose, glucose and sucrose;
• organic acids, mainly malic, citric, tartaric, crategus, chlorogenic;
• fatty acids: arachidonic, palmitic, myristic, stearic;
• unsaturated fatty acids: linoleic, butyric, crategic, ursolic, oleanolic;
• vitamins C, B1, B2, PP, carotene;
• bioflavonoids (2-5%), mostly hyperoside;
• glycosides that affect the work of the heart;
• coumarins, which have antispasmodic, antitumor and other properties, including those that reduce blood clotting;
• sorbitol (7.9-22.5% dry weight), which serves as a sugar substitute for diabetics;
• potassium, iron, manganese, sodium;
• tannins.

Flowers are rich:

• essential oils (up to 75%);
• organic acids;
• unsaturated fatty acids;
• retinol;
• sorbitol;
• vitamins C, A;
• salts of aluminum, magnesium, calcium, potassium, chlorine, sodium, sulfur;
• tannins.

Green leaves contain:

• P-vitamin complex (4-5%);
• vitamins C and A;
• organic acids;
• tannins.

The seeds are rich in:

• fatty oil (7.4%);
• the cyanogenic glycoside amygdalin, which is considered by alternative medicine to be an antineoplastic agent, and the official one is a poisonous compound that does not benefit the body.

Healing substances from medicinal raw materials are extracted with alcohol and converted into vodka or alcohol.

What does hawthorn tincture help with?

Although the official medicine became interested in hawthorn not so long ago, its preparations were included in the list of recommended medicines. Tinctures are widely used to treat:

• of cardio-vascular system;
• allergies;
• anemia;
• atherosclerosis;
• asthenia;
• insomnia;
• nervous diseases;
• hypertension;
• diabetes;
• diseases of the gastrointestinal tract;
• menopause;
• diseases of the thyroid gland;
• skin diseases;
• oncology;
• liver diseases.

Naturally, in case of serious problems, a qualified doctor should prescribe treatment. He can also determine with which drugs the hawthorn tincture is compatible. And whether its sedative properties will affect a person's ability to perform their professional duties and drive vehicles.

How does hawthorn tincture affect the human body

Taking hawthorn tincture at home, you can achieve the following:

• to increase the contraction of the myocardium;
• moderate heart pain;
• stabilize blood circulation, including the brain;
• normalize heart rate;
• eliminate dizziness;
• calm the nerves;
• relieve headache;
• lower blood pressure;
• normalize cholesterol levels;
• improve sleep;
• remove tachycardia and arrhythmia;
• lower blood sugar;
• ease the course of menopause;
• improve overall well-being.

How to make hawthorn tincture at home

The basic recipe for making hawthorn tincture at home is to fill a glass container with crushed medicinal raw materials and strong alcohol. Most often, vodka or medical (ethyl) alcohol 40-70% is used for this. The classic proportion of raw materials and alcohol is 1: 5, cooking time is 2 weeks.

In hawthorn, flowers and fruits are most often infused, less often leaves, bark or young shoots. You can use dry or fresh raw materials.

It is better to harvest hawthorn on your own:

1. Flowers are harvested as soon as the buds begin to open. At this time, the content of nutrients in them reaches a maximum. Collecting flowers is carried out in the morning, after waiting for the dew to dry. You can not take buds affected by pests or diseases. It should be remembered that species of hawthorns fade very quickly. Large pedicels are cut off from raw materials and sent to drying no later than 1-2 hours after collection.It is important not to dry out the flowers, and put them in glass containers or wooden boxes with good ventilation as soon as possible. Shelf life - up to 1 year.
2. The fruits are harvested at the stage of full ripeness, when they have become pleasant to the taste, of a mealy consistency. Properly dried berries are hard, wrinkled, round or oval, red in color. In the blood-red hawthorn, the color of the fruit can be orange-red or orange-brown. Dry berries of the Thorny are brown, red-brown or almost black in color.
3. Young shoots and bark are harvested throughout the growing season.
4. Leaves are harvested at any time. But it's best to do this in early summer, before they get rough.

Do not pick flowers and berries on trees growing along roads and railways, near airfields, high-voltage lines, factories and factories. The farther from the places affected by civilization, the hawthorn is, the better the tinctures prepared from it.

How to infuse hawthorn fruits with vodka

To prepare a hawthorn tincture with vodka, you should take a glass (200 g) of fresh fruits and knead them a little. To do this, you do not need to use a mixer, it is enough to pour the berries into a wide enamel bowl and crush with a crush. Then they are laid out in glass dishes, 400 ml of vodka is poured. Close with a lid and insist for 3 weeks in a dark place. They are filtering. The medicine is ready for use.

Tincture of hawthorn on alcohol

At home for alcohol, hawthorn tincture can be prepared from flowers. To do this, take 4 tablespoons of dry buds or 6 freshly picked ones, place them in a glass dish. Pour 200 ml of 70% alcohol and put in a place protected from light. For 10 days, insist, shaking the container daily. They are filtering. The product is ready to use.

Tincture of hawthorn with rose hips

Rosehip goes well with hawthorn, but it only ripens much later. While the berries of one culture are poured with useful substances, the other has time not only to ripen, but also to dry. However, tinctures are often made from them.

It is best for her to take dry hawthorn berries (30 g) and fresh - rose hips (50 g). The fruits are poured with 300 ml of vodka or 40% alcohol. They insist and filter for ten days.

Tincture of hawthorn and chokeberry

The preparations made from hawthorn and black chokeberry do not taste very pleasant. Perhaps this is not so bad for a medicine. But the taste of a mixture of these berries with alcohol or vodka can cause disgust in especially sensitive people. This is easy to fix by simply adding sugar.

Take 100 g of hawthorn and black chokeberry fruits, add a glass of sugar and 1 liter of vodka or 40% alcohol. Cork, put in a cool place for 10 days. Shake from time to time. When the tincture is ready, it is filtered and bottled.

How to make a tincture of dried hawthorn berries

Dried berries retain almost all the beneficial properties of fresh ones. Water is simply removed from them, which leads to a decrease in the volume of medicinal raw materials. From dry hawthorn, according to reviews, the tincture is no worse than from fresh. To prepare it, 10 g of fruit is placed in a glass jar and poured in 100 ml of vodka or 40% alcohol. Insist 10 days, filter. You can take your medicine.

How to make a tincture of hawthorn, rose hips and viburnum

Rosehip, hawthorn and viburnum are curative each separately. Their mixture has truly miraculous properties - it can restore strength after the most serious illness and cleanse the body of toxins.But you can only take tinctures from these fruits only after consulting a doctor, not exceeding the recommended dose. The amount of nutrients in this mixture is simply off scale, and alcohol contributes to their maximum extraction from the berries. Only a qualified doctor can measure the benefits and harms of alcoholic tincture of hawthorn, rosehip and viburnum.

100 g of viburnum, hawthorn and rosehip berries are poured into 1 liter of vodka or 40% alcohol. Insist in a dark place for 2 weeks. They are filtering. It is taken as directed by a doctor in small doses.

How to make hawthorn tincture on cognac

Despite the fact that this recipe uses cognac and not alcohol or vodka, the tincture remains a drug. You can't drink it for your own pleasure, and even more so, in large doses.

To prepare a tincture, 200 g of dried hawthorn fruits are poured into 500 ml of high-quality cognac. The ingredients are best mixed in a dark glass bottle. Insist 45 days.

Hawthorn pouring

You can make liqueur from hawthorn. But you can't drink it as an aperitif - it's still a medicine.

Take 1 kg of freshly plucked flowers, grind with a pestle, sprinkle with 2 cups of sugar and mix. Let it brew for 60 minutes, add a glass of purified water. Mix well and heat in a water bath to 40 ° C.

Remove from heat, immediately squeeze out in any available way - through a press, gauze or juicer. Without delay, mix in a dark glass dish with medical alcohol 96% 3: 1. Purified ethylene can be replaced with vodka, but then the proportion changes to 1: 1.

Hawthorn and rowan liqueur recipe

100 g of black chokeberry and hawthorn berries are poured into glass dishes, a liter of vodka is poured. Insist in a dark place for 2 weeks. Strain, pour in a glass of sugar (as much as possible), shake well. Leave for 2 days, then bottled.

Homemade hawthorn liqueur

This liqueur is best made with Blood Red Hawthorn, as it is guaranteed to make the drink red. If the color doesn't matter, you can take any kind of berries.

Take 250 g of fresh or 125 dry fruits, wash, steam for 5 minutes with boiling water. Then put in a bowl of dark glass, pour in 1 liter of vodka. To improve the taste, you can use one of the additives:

• a handful of raisins;
• lemon zest or juice;
• a few grains of anise or cardamom;
• a stick of vanilla.

The container is sealed and placed in a dark place for 1 month. Then it is filtered and mixed with chilled syrup, boiled from 200 ml of water and 300 g of sugar. Liquor is bottled and sealed tightly. Store in a cool place for up to three years.

How to take hawthorn tincture

Before taking a hawthorn tincture on alcohol, it is advisable to consult a doctor. Especially if they do not drink it for prevention, but include it in the course of treatment of any disease. The doctor will indicate the correct dosage and check if the hawthorn is compatible with other medicines:

• tincture enhances the action of glycosides and antiarrhythmic drugs;
• the joint use of hawthorn with alkaloid salts in itself causes health problems;
• tincture enhances the effect of hypnotics and sedatives.

The course of treatment is also determined by the doctor. Most often, adults are prescribed 20-30 drops, adolescents from 12 to 18 years old - up to 15 drops 1-4 times a day. When taking the tincture on your own, you cannot drink it for more than three weeks in a row.

How to drink hawthorn tincture: before or after meals

Your doctor may recommend taking the tincture on an empty stomach or with food. People with gastrointestinal diseases, when taken on their own, should not drink the drug on an empty stomach - this can cause irritation of the mucous membrane or have too strong an effect.

How to take hawthorn tincture with high blood pressure

In the treatment of hypertension, you can use tinctures of flowers and berries. This is a reliable tool, although it does not give instant results. Fruits lower blood pressure more effectively, and flowers strengthen the heart muscle better.

Treatment of hypertension with hawthorn tincture can be carried out in one of the following ways:

1. Three times a day, 20-30 drops of the drug are taken before meals.
2. A teaspoon of tincture is drunk once a day - in the morning 30 minutes before breakfast. This method is much more convenient than the first one, but it is less efficient.

The course of treatment is 3 months. In this case, after 30 days of taking the tincture, a 10-day break is taken.

Increases hawthorn tincture pressure, or lowers

Hawthorn preparations give positive results in the treatment of hypertension, as they have a vasodilating and spasm-relieving effect. They cannot raise blood pressure even in combination with alcohol.

Is it possible to take hawthorn tincture under reduced pressure

With hypotension, hawthorn tincture should not be taken. It can reduce blood pressure even more.

All claims that hawthorn helps with hypotension are based on the ability of the components of the medicinal raw materials to eliminate the causes of low blood pressure. In this case, blood pressure is simply brought back to normal. Most often this occurs with vascular dystonia. Sometimes neurasthenia and other disorders of the nervous system are accompanied by a decrease, not an increase in pressure. When the underlying disease is eliminated, hypotension also disappears.

Rules for taking hawthorn tincture for the heart

Hawthorn preparations reduce the excitability of the nervous system and pressure, increase the tone of the heart, increase blood circulation in the coronary artery, remove tachycardia and arrhythmia.

But with serious heart problems, self-medication cannot be performed, this can lead to serious consequences. After all, there are a number of pathologies in which hawthorn preparations, and even more so tinctures, are contraindicated. Even a simple overdose can be dangerous.

During treatment, you need to be under the supervision of a doctor, regularly monitor blood pressure, and, if necessary, remove an electrocardiogram.

With arrhythmia

Tincture of hawthorn with arrhythmia is taken for a month before meals three times a day, 10 drops, diluted in 50 ml of water. The doctor, at his discretion, can change the dosage and the duration of treatment, focusing on the patient's condition and concomitant diseases. With reduced pressure, you should refrain from taking the tincture on your own.

With tachycardia

Tincture of hawthorn with tachycardia is taken 25 days twice a day before meals, 15-20 drops. Wash down with warm tea or water.

For potency

The use of hawthorn tincture for potency is due to the fact that it helps to eliminate disorders of the nervous system. Drink the drug 15-20 drops before meals three times a day for a month. In diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, the medicine is taken with food. Low blood pressure is a contraindication to admission.

With diabetes

Before taking any tinctures for diabetes mellitus, it is best to consult your doctor. However, during a period of stable illness, small doses of alcohol are acceptable.The main thing is not to take tinctures on an empty stomach - this can cause an attack.

Without consulting a doctor, you can drink hawthorn tincture for type II diabetes, which does not require insulin injections. The course of treatment is no more than three weeks, when 25-30 drops diluted in 50 ml of water are drunk during meals twice a day.

Effect on the vessels of the legs

Hawthorn has anti-sclerotic and spasm-relieving properties. With the help of its preparations, you can cleanse the body, including the veins in the legs, from harmful cholesterol. With varicose veins for a month, 20-30 drops of tincture are diluted with 50 ml of water and drunk 4 times a day before meals.

In diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, the drug is taken simultaneously with food, and low blood pressure is a direct contraindication.

With VSD

Tincture of hawthorn with VSD (vegetative-vascular dystonia) in vodka or 40% medical alcohol can be made from fruits and flowers. They are taken the same way - 20-30 minutes before meals three times a day for a month, but the dosage should be different. Tincture of flowers is drunk in 20-25 drops, fruits - in 30.

If the disease is accompanied by severe neurosis, panic attacks and other mental disorders, hawthorn may not be enough for treatment. The tincture is capable of acting only as an adjuvant.

With menopause

Tincture of hawthorn with menopause helps to put in order the nervous system and cardiac activity. The drug improves sleep, soothes headaches. Drink for three weeks three times a day, 15 minutes before meals, a tincture of flowers, 40 drops, fruits - 30 drops.

Contraindication - low blood pressure.

Tincture of hawthorn as a sedative

Hawthorn, even in small quantities, itself can act as a sedative. If you prepare a tincture from its flowers or berries, the sedative effect is enhanced. It is recommended to dissolve 20-25 drops in a quarter of a glass of water, take 3 times a day 10-15 minutes before meals.

During a panic attack or with strong nervous excitement, 10-15 drops of valerian tincture are added to the hawthorn one time.

How to take for insomnia

For insomnia, hawthorn tincture is drunk in 20-25 drops, dissolved in 50 ml of water. The drug is taken regardless of food for 10-15 minutes or just before going to bed. If insomnia persists after 3 days, add 10-15 drops of valerian tincture. Take no more than three weeks.

In the most severe cases, a mixture of tinctures of hawthorn, valerian and motherwort, taken 15 drops, will help. It is better to drink it while sitting in bed, as otherwise you may not reach it. The course of treatment without a doctor's recommendation is no more than 5 days.

Contraindications to taking hawthorn tincture

Any tincture consists of two components - strong alcohol and medicinal raw materials. Hawthorn is contraindicated:

• under reduced pressure;
• due to rare individual intolerance.

Take his drugs carefully:

• when driving vehicles;
• during the performance of work associated with the risk of injury or requiring increased attention;
• together with drugs that regulate the heart rate.

Due to the alcohol content, tinctures are contraindicated:

• alcoholics;
• during pregnancy and lactation;
• children under 12 years old.

For liver diseases, tinctures are taken only after consulting a doctor.

Excessive use of hawthorn preparations can cause:

• allergic reactions;
• drowsiness;
• vomiting;
• dizziness;
• a strong decrease in blood pressure;
• bradycardia.

In the end, you can just get drunk with the tincture.

Rules for storing homemade hawthorn tincture

The tincture is stored in tightly closed glass containers, the place must be protected from direct sunlight. The optimum temperature is 8-15⁰ С, although the usual room temperature will do. Shelf life is up to three years.

Conclusion

Hawthorn tincture is an excellent remedy for many diseases, it is easy to prepare it yourself. The main thing is to prevent overdose and take into account all contraindications, and there are not so many of them.

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