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Crataegus Oxyacantha

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Hawthorn · English Hawthorn · "The Heart Tonic Remedy"
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🎯 A powerful heart that improves heart muscle function, regulates pulse, and helps reduce blood pressure.
📖 Boericke writes:
(CRATAEGUS)
Produces giddiness, lowered pulse, and air hunger and reduction in blood-pressure. Acts on muscle of heart, and is a heart . No influence on the .
. Failing compensation. Irregularity of heart. of aortic sufferers; ; ; cutaneous chilliness. High arterial tension. Is a sedative in cross, irritable patients with cardiac symptoms.
Chronic heart disease, with extreme weakness. Very feeble and irregular heart action. General . Very nervous, with pain in back of head and neck. of . from bowels. Cold extremities, pallor; irregular pulse and breathing. Painful sensation of pressure in left side of chest below the clavicle. and nervous , with heart failure. In the beginning of heart mischief after rheumatism. . Said to have a solvent power upon crustaceous and calcareous deposits in arteries.
👤 Constitution
•Typically elderly or weak individuals with chronic heart disease, suffering from nervous exhaustion, irritability, and physical .
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Irregularity of heart.
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Said to have a solvent power upon crustaceous and calcareous deposits in arteries.
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Extreme on least exertion, without much increase of pulse.
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Pain in region of heart and under left clavicle.
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Heart dilated; first sound weak.
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Pulse accelerated, irregular, feeble, .
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🩺 Systems & Indications
👤HEAD
Used for nervous, irritable patients experiencing mental dullness and tension .
Apprehensive, despondent.
Very nervous and irritable, with pain in back of head and neck.
Mental dullness conjunctival irritation nasal discharges.
🔑 Modalities
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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

1-15 drops
Mother Tincture
📝Fluid extract or tincture · Must be used for some time
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🔄 Compare With
Naja Tripudians →Strophanthus Hispidus →Cactus Grandiflorus →Digitalis Purpurea →Iberis Amara →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

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Crataegus Oxyacantha is listed in 41 rubrics across 8 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 14 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Circulatory System21Generalities6Modalities4Nervous System3Locomotor System2Respiratory System2Skin2Fever1

See all 41 rubrics for Crataegus Oxyacantha →