- Also known as (or relevant to)
- Family
- Rosaceae
- English Names
- Natural Habitat
- Europe
- Bulgaria
- Rumania
- Russia
- Balkan
- Western Asia
- North and Western Africa
- cultivated in America
- Part(s) Used
- Flores Crataegi oxyacanthae
- Fructus Crataegi oxyacanthae
- Herba Crataegi oxyacanthae
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- Constituent(s)
- fruit: oxyacanthin
- amygdalin
- sugar
- fat
- tannin
- acids
- crataeguslacton
- essential oil
- mucilage; flower: amygdalin
- minerals
- glucose
- quercitrin
- quercetin
- trimethylamin
- essential oil; leaf: trimethylamin
- crataeguslacton
- Action
- flower: diuretic
- cardiac-tonic
- reducing blood pressure; herb: diuretic
- depurative
- cardiac-tonic
- astringent
- discutient
- antispasmodic
- reducing blood pressure; fruit: reducing blood pressure
- cardiac-tonic. The flower seems to be most active
- however usually a combination of flower
- leaf and fruit is employed
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