According to WHO, over 1 billion people are suffering from hypertension and other heart-related diseases. It is indeed a ‘silent killer’ and kills more people than wars and pandemics combined.
However, nature has its way of dealing with such ailments through the provision of wonder shrub plants such as hawthorn.
In essence, hawthorn is the Crataegus monogyna plant from the Rosaceae family.
It is a unique plant found in temperate regions, most notably the Northern hemisphere in Asia, Europe, as well as North Africa and North America.
It is also called quickthorn or informally, common hawthorn.