Today I will talk about the most beautiful flower and fruit called Hawthorn (Paducel in Romanian) or Crataegus from Latin. There is variety of this specie. There is big family of beauty with many absolutely charming colors which bring joy to our life only looking at it.
However it has very strong cardioprotective effects and not only. It can help with metabolic syndromes, such dyslipidemia, obesity, diabetes.
So if you want to normalize your blood pressure then it is enough to have couple of cups of tea from fruits of Hawthorn. In this case any specie will work.
But if you want in addition to reduce your total cholesterol with LDL and in the meantime to increase your good one HDL, then you should choose two types of Hawthorn which are Crataegus pinnatifida and Crataegus monogyna.
The first one not only decreases total cholesterol but teaches your liver to produce more specific enzymes which are not allowing lipids to make conglomerates wherever they want to. Mostly in blood vessels causing fatal conditions. It has also anti thrombotic effect, so it has ability to prevent development of atherosclerotic plagues too, which is advantage and the effect is similar to Aspirin .
It is recommended to use it in dosage 200 mg every 12 hrs for at least 10 weeks or for laboratory proven result in blood (control before and after ) and then have it just once for support.
Details you can find here https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6556496/
Another one monogyna in the meantime has very powerful properties too.
It increases LDL receptor binding capacity in the liver and prevents elevation of total cholesterol and up regulates hepatic LDL receptors resulting in greater influx of plasma LDL cholesterol in the liver. (so also "talks to liver") By enhancing cholesterol degradation to bile acids promoting bile flow and suppressing cholesterol biosynthe-sis13. It also lowers atherogenic component beta lipoprotein. Part of mechanism for antihyperlipidemic effects of hawthorn fruit also involves in the direct protection to human LDL from oxidation or indirect protection via maintaining the concentration of alpha-tocopherol in human LDL.
But the interesting part here that when Crataegus monogina was compared with simvastatin , it was found that both were equally effective in lowering cholesterol, TGs and LDL-c levels.
And we all know which side effects have synthetic statins- they destroy our muscles and not only. And here we have natural plant which has not fatal side effects, but actually protects more and prevents reappearance.
Recommended dose for this type is 500 mg every 12 hrs minimum 4 weeks. And then depends on laboratory findings.
More details about mechanisms are here http://www.thebiomedicapk.com/articles/271.pdf
Personal experience is to have total cholesterol 400 mg/dl or 9.3 mmol/l was decreased after cure from both types intake for 3 months to 145 mg/dl- 3.8 mmol/l - proven by laboratory.
Therapy was both types of hawthorn pinnatifida -200 mg twice a day together with monogyna 500 mg twice a day.
In Romania you can find Crataegus pinnatifida in plafars and farmacia tei under brand of Rotta Natura Paducel extract 200 mg and Crataegus monogyna from Cosmo pharm Paducel extract 500 mg- 60 caps
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