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Follow on Google News | Hawthorn Berries - Medicinal properties and where to buy onlineLearn how to use hawthorn Berries and see where to purchase online.
By: Todd Hebert (French) L'épine noble (German) Hagedorn ---Part Used---Dried haws or fruits. ---Habitat---Europe, North Africa, Western Asia. ---Description--- This familiar tree will attain a height of 30 feet and lives to a great age. It possesses a single seed-vessel to each blossom producing a separate fruit, which when ripe is a brilliant red and this is in miniature a stony apple. In some districts these mealy red fruits are called Pixie Pears, Cuckoo's Beads and Chucky Cheese. The flowers are mostly fertilized by carrion insects, the suggestion of decomposition in the perfume attracts those insects that lay their eggs and hatch out their larvae in decaying animal matter. ---Medicinal Action and Uses---Cardiac, diuretic, astringent, tonic. Mainly used as a cardiac tonic in organic and functional heart troubles. Both flowers and berries are astringent and useful in decoction to cure sore throats. A useful diuretic in dropsy and kidney troubles. ---Preparation and dosage---Fluid Extract of Berries, 10 to 15 drops. The leaves have been used as an adulterant for tea. An excellent liquer is made from Hawthorn berries with brandy. Formerly the timber, when of sufficient size, was used for making small articles. The root-wood was also used for making boxes and combs; the wood has a fine grain and takes a beautiful polish. It makes excellent fuel, making the hottest wood-fire known and used to be considered more desirable than Oak for oven-heating. Charcoal made from it has been said to melt pig-iron without the aid of a blast. The stock is employed not only for grafting varieties of its own species, but also for several of the garden fruits closely allied to it, such as the medlar and pear. PURCHASE http://www.ndakinna.org/ # # # Selling Native American crafts online. We also do healing work and sell Medicinal herbs, tinctures, salves, syrups and more via our website http://www.redfoxtradingpost.com End
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