Medicines Hawthorn

Hamon NW. Herbal medicine Hawthorns (Genus Crataegus). Can Pharmaceut J 1988 121 708-709,724. 

Digitalis glycosides + Herbal medicines Hawthorn (Crataegus)... 

Larson, K. H., Neel, J, W., Hawthorne, H. A., Mork, H. M., Rowland, R. H., Baurmash, L., Lindberg, R. G., Olafson, J. H. and Kowalewsky, B. W. (1966). Distribution, Characteristics and Biotic Availability of Fallout, Operation Plumbbob, Report No. WT-1488 (Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine and Radiation Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, also National Technical Information Service, Springfield, Virginia). 

Hawthorn has long been used as a medicinal substance, and an extract such as WS 1442, a formulation of hawthorn leaves with flowers, has been evaluated in different studies for treatment of heart failure (40 2). Patients with New York Heart Association class II heart failure participated in a placebo-controlled, randomized, multicenter trial. They received 30 drops of the extract three times daily for eight weeks. At the end of the study, heart failure condition was improved (41). A meta-analysis of available clinical trials suggests that the extract is useful as an adjunct treatment for patients with mild to moderate heart failure (42). Therefore, it is likely that hawthorn products would be administered together with digoxin in clinical management of patients (Fig. 4). 

M. Frederick Hawthorne, International Institute of Nano and Molecular Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211... 

The Latin name for mistletoe is Viscum album. It is a semiparasitic plant that grows on old apple, ash, and hawthorn trees. It is one of very few cancer medications with a rich traditional history. Ancient Greeks used it as an anticancer medication, and it was a popular herbal medicine of the Druids, who used it for treating epilepsy and nervous system disorders. Dr. Rudolf Steiner, founder of the Society for Cancer Research, advocated its use in 1920 for the treatment of human cancer. " Presently, it is widely used in Europe and North America to treat arthritis and rheumatism and for palhative treatment of malignant tumors. Viscum album is listed in the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States Mistletoe is marketed under the brand names Iscador, Isorel, Helixor, Eurixor, Vysorel, etc. 

R372 M. F. Hawthorn, Advances at the Interface of Polyhedral Borane Chemistry and Medicine , Comment Inorg. Chem., 2010, 31, 153. 

Froehlicher T, Hennebelle T, Martin-Nizard F, Cleenewerck P, Hilbert JL, Trotin F, Grec S (2009) Phenolic profiles and antioxidative effects of hawthorn cell suspensimis, fresh fruits, and medicinal dried parts. Food Chem 115 897-903... 

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