hawthorn
Hawthorn is one of the plants that follow the pink family of the genus Dicotyledons, and it is one of the perennial trees, found in the woods, wilderness, and in the mountainous heights, in addition to that it can be cultivated.
This plant contains leaves resembling Sidr leaves in green color, and it is small in size, and it has white and corymbose flowers, then these flowers turn into oval-shaped fruits and grapes, and they are either red, black, or yellow, depending on the type.
Hawthorn fruits contain several elements and substances that benefit health and beauty, including: triterpenoids, coumarins, tannic acid, and flavonoids. .
Hawthorn species
There are several types of hawthorn, estimated at approximately two hundred species, which circulate around the world. We will mention to you some of the species that exist in the Arab world, as follows:
- Mono-pistle and its scientific name is (Crataegus monogyna), found in the regions of the Levant and Turkey.
- European (Crataegus rhipidophylla), found in most of Europe and in the Levant regions.
- German, and scientifically (Crataegus germanica), this species is found in the Caucasus, the Levant, and Turkey.
- Common hawthorn (Crataegus azarolus), can be found in the Levant, the Caucasus, Egypt, Turkey and the Maghreb.
- Long hawthorn, whose scientific name is (Crataegus longipes), is found in Turkey and the Levant.
- Mashreqi and its scientific name (Crataegus orientalis), it is found in the Balkans, Turkey, the Levant and the Caucasus.
- Fringed hawthorn, scientifically called (Crataegus laciniata), can be found in Sicily and the Maghreb.
Benefits of hawthorn for slimming
- Hawthorn fruits can be eaten by eating them immediately after washing them well. so that three pills are taken a quarter of an hour before each meal, which helps curb appetite and reduce food quantities; As this works to lose weight over time.
- Hawthorn tea: Take a tablespoon of dry hawthorn leaves, soak it in a cup of boiling water for five minutes, then drink the infusion after filtering it once in the morning on an empty stomach and again in the evening.
General benefits of hawthorn
- Eating hawthorn fruits strengthens the heart and improves blood circulation, by contributing to the expansion of the coronary artery.
- Hawthorn tea: Hawthorn leaves contain antioxidants that help prevent atherosclerosis and reduce angina pectoris.
- reduce anxiety and palpitations; This is done by drinking hawthorn leaf tea or hawthorn flowers.
- Chest pain is treated by eating its fruits.
- It is said that the tincture that is extracted from the fruits of hawthorn has the ability to reduce harmful cholesterol in the blood, in addition to that it has the ability to prevent the formation of bad cholesterol in the liver.
