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Herbal plants that protects the heart​

Herbal medicine offers excellent remedies for treating heart disease. In dry or liquid extract, or in herbal tea, focus on three plants giving good results to protect the heart.

Hawthorn supports the heart muscle

Hawthorn is a thorny shrub whose herbal medicine uses almost everything: red berries, white flowering tops and buds. It contains polyphenols and triterpenes with antioxidant properties, but above all that stimulate the heart. Hawthorn is also able to regulate the heartbeat.

Instructions for use: It is taken in the form of a liquid extract of fresh plants or a dry extract, at the rate of 600 to 800 mg per day in two doses, for example one in the morning and one in the evening. The plant is not toxic, the cure can be extended for several months.

The olive tree lowers the tension

Many studies indicate that the olive (and its oil) reduces cardiovascular risk. This is the leaf we are interested in. “It houses flavonoids, triterpenes and active ingredients – secoiridoids – which are slightly hypotensive and hypolipidemic”.

Directions: In the form of dry or liquid extract, 600 to 800 mg per day. But also in herbal tea: add 30 g of leaves to a liter of boiling water for two to three minutes, let infuse for ten minutes. to drink over a day, in three-week cures, interspersed with one-week breaks.

Lemon balm regulates the rhythm

Sometimes confused with verbena or lemongrass for the smell, nettle or mint for the appearance of its leaves, lemon balm deserves notice. Its leaves contain anxiolytic rosmarinic acid and triterpenes, cardiac tonic and antiarrhythmic. Thanks to these active ingredients, lemon balm reduces stress and regulates the heart rate. As it calms the nervous system which controls the contraction of the intestine, it is also antispasmodic.

Instructions for use: In dry or liquid extract, 600 mg of extract per day, or in herbal tea: throw about fifteen leaves, dry or fresh, in one liter of boiling water, let infuse for 15 minutes. to drink in a day. This herbal tea is not very colorful, but tasty. Be careful, lemon balm can interfere with the functioning of the thyroid! Better to be careful in case of thyroid diseases. For motherwort, choose the mother tincture, 15 drops morning and evening in three-week cures.