Hawthorn tincture

General characteristics. Structure:

Active agent – a hawthorn fruits of 10.0 g.

Excipient – alcohol of ethyl 70%.

Pharmacological properties:

Hawthorn tincture cardiotonic means of a plant origin. Fruits of a hawthorn contain flavonoids: meletin, гиперин, гиперозид, витексин, organic acids: lemon, oleanovy, ursolovy, krategusovy, coffee, chlorogenic, and also carotinoids, tannins, fat oils, pectins, triterpenovy and flavonovy glycosides: beta sitosterol, sincaline; sugar, vitamins.

Active ingredients of a hawthorn lower excitability of the central nervous system and cardiac muscle, promote increase in contractility of the last, improvement of coronary and cerebral circulation, eliminate dizziness. A hawthorn tincture contributes to normalization of a cordial rhythm that is caused by the action mechanism characteristic of antiaritmik of the III class.

Thanks to existence of triterpenovy connections and flavonoids has spasmolytic and hypotensive effect.

Hawthorn tincture, selectively expanding vessels of heart and brain, contributes to normalization of venous pressure, improves functions of vascular walls. Has the expressed anti-atherosclerotic effect, increases sensitivity of a myocardium to effect of cardiac glycosides.

Indications to use:

As a part of complex therapy:

- functional disturbances of action of the heart;

- vegeto-vascular dystonia;

- arterial hypertension;

- coronary heart disease;

- angioneuroses, ciliary arrhythmia, Bouveret's disease;

- atherosclerosis, climacteric neurosis.

Route of administration and doses:

The adult, inside, till 20-30 drops 3-4 times a day to food.

Course of treatment of 20-30 days.

Features of use:

At the combined use to cardiac glycosides there is strengthening of cardiotonic effect.

Drug is not recommended to be accepted during food, in order to avoid interaction with its components. With care at diseases of a liver and craniocereberal injuries.

The persons suffering from an alcoholism are not recommended to use drug.

 

Side effects:

Seldom:

- bradycardia, hypotension (at long reception in high doses);

- allergic reactions (urticaria, itch);

- dizziness, tremor.

Are possible:

- nausea, vomiting, intestinal colic, drowsiness (at reception on an empty stomach).

Interaction with other medicines:

At the combined use of drug and cardiac glycosides (strophanthin, digoxin, etc.) there is strengthening of cardiotonic effect; with β-adrenoblockers - - - - - - - - - – strengthening of hypotensive effect is possible.

Simultaneous use from antiaritmika of the III class, and also with tsizapridy is not recommended.

Contraindications:

- the increased individual sensitivity to drug components;

- lowering of arterial pressure;

- disturbance of a heart rhythm;

- pregnancy and period of a lactation;

- children's and teenage age up to 18 years.

Overdose:

Symptoms: nausea, vomiting, intestinal colic.

Treatment: drug withdrawal, a gastric lavage, purpose of the adsorbing means, symptomatic therapy.

Storage conditions:

To store in the dry, protected from light place, at a temperature not above 30 °C.

To store in the place, unavailable to children!

Issue conditions:

According to the recipe

Packaging:

On 100 ml of drug in the bottles corked by the screwed covers or caps metal with a control ring.

The bottle together with the approved instructions on a medical use in the state and Russian languages is placed in a box from a cardboard.