Hawthorn Berry Extract

1. Cardiotonic effect: Hawthorn can increase myocardial contractility, increase cardiac output, and slow down heart rate.
2. Effect on coronary blood flow and myocardial oxygen consumption: Hawthorn extract and its total flavonoids can increase coronary blood flow, reduce myocardial oxygen consumption and myocardial oxygen utilization rate.
3. Effect on myocardial nutritional blood flow: Hawthorn has a certain effect on increasing myocardial nutritional blood flow. The effect of hawthorn on increasing myocardial nutritional blood flow may be related to dilating the coronary vascular bed and improving coronary circulation.
4. Protective effect on experimental myocardial ischemia: Hawthorn has a protective effect on acute myocardial ischemia caused by isoproterenol sulfate in guinea pigs. Hawthorn extract can prevent or alleviate myocardial ischemia or necrosis caused by isoproterenol.
5. Antihypertensive effect: Hawthorn ethanol extract has a more lasting antihypertensive effect.
6. Lipid-lowering effect: Different extracted parts of hawthorn have a more definite lipid-lowering effect on various high-fat models caused by different animals, and can antagonize the increase in serum cholesterol and triglyceride levels caused by high-fat diets.