CHEMICAL COMPOSITION AND MEDICINAL PROPERTIES OF THE HAWTHORN
Hawthorn known food and herb. From antiquity it is applied as effective medicine. The ancient medicine considered that at inclusion in inside fruits of a hawthorn are very nutritious, fix, reduce excitement of bile and elevated pressure of blood, calm vomiting, strengthen a hot stomach and a liver, treat the expiration of urine on drops, chronic diseases of a stomach and a diarrhea treat. In traditional medicine fruits of a hawthorn apply as means for fatigue, to improvement of work of a brain, at a headache, dizziness, bronchial asthma. Tea from dried fruits and leaves of a hawthorn is drunk at heartaches, suffocation, a hypertension, gastrointestinal diseases. In modern scientific medicine the hawthorn is applied very widely. Infusion of bark of a hawthorn is applied as the desensibilizing cure for allergic diseases. Fruits, flowers, hawthorn leaves, thanks to existence of phenolic connections have antioxidant properties. Also immunomodulatory, antiallergic, anti-mutagen and antineoplastic properties of a hawthorn are defined. Very widely the hawthorn is applied in cardiological practice. It is defined that fruits of a hawthorn have antiarrhytmic, cardiotonic effect, improve coronary blood circulation. Juice of a hawthorn improves mitochondrial breath in the cardiomiocite. Randomized, controlled studies of reception of flowers and leaves of a hawthorn showed that they lead to reliable decrease in systolic and diastolic arterial blood pressure, at long (more than 3 months) application. Are confirmed, the sedative, anxiolytic, anti-depressive, antipainful properties of fruits of a hawthorn determined by traditional medicine.