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A cousin to the common tea rose is being heralded as one of the most powerful and easy-to-find herbal remedies for high blood pressure and high cholesterol.<\/p>\nA cousin to the common tea rose is being heralded as one of the most powerful and easy-to-find herbal remedies for high blood pressure and high cholesterol.<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s not even anything new; in fact, healers throughout many generations have used its leaves, berries, and bark to cure a cacophony of problems, with researchers finally taking notice.<\/p>\n
Researchers at the University of Maryland Medical Center recently released a study looking at many benefits of the hawthorn bush. <\/p>\n
This cousin to the common rose is a thorny shrub that grows in sunny places all over the world.<\/p>\n
It has blooms like the rose, and even has berries that form after the blooms die off in early June.<\/p>\n
These berries have been used in compounds for supplements because \u2013 among other thing – of it\u2019s extremely high antioxidant content.<\/p>\n
Compounds found in Hawthorn also act as vaso-dilators, which help to soften the blood vessels in people who suffer from high blood pressure and high cholesterol level.<\/p>\n
These compounds were also found to clean the arteries of the dangerous LDL cholesterol that builds up within the arterial walls and eventually leads to deadly plaque build-up.<\/p>\n