Crataegus
Actions:
Digestive, Nervine, Antioxidant
Therapeutic Categories:
Heart disease, Anxiety, Circulation, Respiratory, insomnia, swelling
Safety:
Do not use with heart medications, sedatives, and sleeping medicines. Children and women who are pregnant or breastfeeding shouldn’t use hawthorn.
Magical Uses:
Fairy tree! Establishes borders, fertility (flowers)
Plant Parts Used: Leaves, Berries, Flowers. leaves are edible, and tender if picked in spring when still young. The young leaves and flower buds, which are also edible
Preparations: tea, extracts, jellies
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Plant Identifiers: Small pome fruit and (usually) thorny branches. thorns are small sharp-tipped branches that arise either from other branches or from the trunk. leaves of most species have lobed or serrated margins and are somewhat variable in shape. Flowers are five-petalled and grow in flat-topped clusters and are most typically white, although they can also be pale pink or occasionally scarlet in color.
Chemical Constituents: Pectin