Help your heart with Hawthorn

European doctors and herbalists have long been savvy to the heart-healthy benefits of howthorn since the 1800s for angina, heart rythm disturbaces and mild congestive heart failure. The abudant clusters of pink and white spring flowers of the hawthorn shrub are packed with compounds that improve cardiovascular blood flow, strengthen the contraction of the heart muscle, lower blood preesure and calm palpitations.

Numerous clinical ctudies in Germany have shown that hawthorn improves symptoms of heart failure such as shortness of breath, fatigue and fluid retention. Many herbalists recommend hawthorn tea as a tonic to maintain heart, particularly for people older than 40 and those who have a family history of cardiovascular disease.

If you take medication for a heart condition, check with your doctor before using hawthorn bacause it can enhance the effects of certain drugs. For best results, take hawthoen long-term it takes at least two months of continuous usage for the benefits of the herb to accrue.

Heart healthy hawthorn tea Recipe :

2 cups boiling water
2 tsp dried hawthorn flowers
1 tsp dried linden flowers

Pour boiling water over herbs in a teapot. Streep for 15 minutes. Strain and drink up to 2 cups a day.

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