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Hawthorn Side Effects, Interactions and Warnings

Self-medication is not recommended, especially for something as vital as your heart.

Taking large amounts of hawthorn may result in a dramatic drop in blood pressure, which in turn may cause you to feel faint.

Highly concentrated forms of hawthorn preparations should be used only under medical supervision.

Children and pregnant or nursing women should use hawthorn only under the direction of a medical herbalist or a licensed healthcare professional.

Contraindicated in pregnancy due to potential uterine activity.

Hawthorn may interfere with either digoxin pharmacodynamically or with digoxin monitoring.
- Arch Intern Med 1998 Nov 9;158(20):2200-11 -- Herbal medicinals: selected clinical considerations focusing on known or potential drug-herb interactions. -- Miller LG.

Potential for hawthorn to interact negatively with typical heart failure medications.
- J Card Fail. 2005 Oct;11(8):586-9. -- The prevalence and pattern of complementary and alternative supplement use in individuals with chronic heart failure. -- Zick SM, Blume A, Aaronson KD.

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