Herbal Tea

Hawthorne Berries Tea Bag

Botanical Name: Crataegus oxycanthus

Hawthorne is a plant. The leaves, berries, and flowers of hawthorn are used to make medicine.

Herbal tea such as Hawthorne Berries Tea Bag is used to treat both low blood pressure and high blood pressure, “hardening of the arteries” (atherosclerosis), and high cholesterol.

Some people use hawthorn for digestive system complaints such as indigestion, diarrhea, and stomach pain. It is also used to reduce anxiety, as a sedative, to increase urine output, and for menstrual problems.

Hawthorn is also used to treat tapeworm and other intestinal infections.

Some people apply hawthorn to the skin for boils, sores, and ulcers. Hawthorn preparations are used as a wash for sores, itching, and frostbite.

You will find hawthorn among the ingredients in candied fruit slices, jam, jelly, wine and herbal tea.

Hawthorn can help improve the amount of blood pumped out of the heart during contractions, widen the blood vessels, and increase the transmission of nerve signals.

• Treating heart failure

• Anxiety

• High and low blood pressure

• High cholesterol

• Muscle spasms