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Hawthorn

Scientific name: Crataegus oxycantha Habitat: Hawthorn, derived from “hedgethorn” which is spiny tree used for living fence and first found in Europe. It can be planted in any kind of water and optimal soil texture.

It requires heat and there shrubs grow to 5-15 m tall so it can be said that this is small trees.

It is mainly used in Europe or North America.
Parts used

Flowers and Fruit

Common uses: Hawthorn provides best tonic for hart and circulatory system as this act in normalizing the heart by stimulating in early stage of congestive heart failure and it is used in lone term recovery of heart attack.

Effects: The effect of Hawthorn is seen after or disheartening it. It helps in dilating coronary blood vessels, strengthening heart muscles, improves the circulation to extremities, helps in lowering down the blood pressure, reduces the risk of angina attacks, it is mostly used two weeks and there is no side effect of this treatment.

Heather

Scientific name: Calluna spp.

Habitat: Heather, a plant mostly found in Scotland and it is derived from Scots word so it can be said as a Scottish origin. Mostly heather is available in East of Scottish country side and very less in South and West. Its life is about 40 to 50 years and it is more easily grown on that soil which has pH in between 4.5 to 7.5. Its production power is very high and it can produce at least 1, 50,000 seeds in a season.
Parts used: Tips of the flowers, stems, shoots and ericoidn.
Common uses: Heather is mainly used as urinary antiseptic and diuretic. It also disinfects the urinary tract and increase the urine production.

Decoction can be added while taking bath or internally also. It also used to treat cystitis and inflammatory bladder stones and kidney also. It is also helpful for various conditions like arthritis, gout or rheumatism and macerated flowering tips for producing liniment to rub on the affected joints. Heather is used for various diseases like respiratory complaints, gastrointestinal disorders and colic, for liver and gallbladder disease, enlargement of the prostate, agitation, wounds or insomnia.

Henbane

Scientific name: Hyosycamus Niger

Habitat: Henbane is a plant which is sticky, hairy or biennial and it grows up to 80 cm tall and covered with sticky hairs. Henbane has large, oval leaves, pale green with deeply toothed edges and these tiny hairs cover the stem and leaves. The seeds of Henbane are enclosed in ½ inch long capsules. This plant is mostly found mostly in Mediterranean region and various parts of North America. Egypt, United States and Hungary are the largest exporters of Henbane. It grows by the walls of fields, near building or any waste ground from low lying ground to sea lower mountain slopes.
Parts used: Leaves and top of the flowers are mostly used but its fruits can also be used.
Common uses: Henbane is meagerly used for herbal medicines and painkillers as it is mostly used in the form of painkillers for urinary tract and mainly in kidney stones. Henbane becomes valuable by sedative and antispasmodic which is used for relieving tremor but that also in the early stages of disease. Henbane reduces the mucus secretions and saliva with other digestive juices. Remedy for: Liver and gallbladder problems, for stomach and intestinal cramps, toothache, painful ulcers, tumor or whooping cough. It is also used for asthma patients.