Crataegus is for joints.

As preparing are flowers, leaves, fruits, juice,where helping for heart, vessels, calming, obesity, rheumatism, hypertension, juice helps in kidneys functions bad,and of flowers juices preparing on blooming time, leaves, berries on October, but of drops are 100  drops you pulse will delay, and berries over dosage will poison you, and avoids his in hypotonia, hypofunction for thyroid gland.
In joints aches, for 4 tbl.sp. flowers crataegus, two tbl.sp. caraway seeds, two tbl.sp. herb periwinkle, three tbl.sp. root valeriana, three tbl.sp. leaves melissa, 6tbl.sp. of white mistletoe leaves, all chop, and mix, and one tb.sp. mass ads in glass for hot water, infuse for two hours, filter, use two glasses everyday through a same time intervals.

As for arthritis curing use 5 parts  of fruits crataegus, herb hypericum, four parts herb viola tricolor, three parts herbs of thyme, and oregano, two parts of roots calganwood, herb mint, pine buds, leaves eucalyptus , part of roots acorus, as all mix,chop, ads two gtbl.sp. in thermos in one l. for hot water, infuse till a morning, use on half glass for 4 times/day for two months.