The use of horse chestnut in folk medicine is quite widespread. There is nothing surprising in this. The healing plant has a huge list of beneficial properties for human health. And due to the fact that chestnut is practically an improvised means, it would be unreasonable not to use it.
The use of chestnut strengthens the vascular walls. The healing plant reduces blood pressure, resolves the formed blood clots and thins the blood. The use of drugs containing chestnut is recommended for hemorrhoids and rheumatism, gout and prostatitis, trophic ulcers and varicose veins. Miraculous trees can eliminate diseases of the digestive tract and kidneys. When using them, nosebleeds pass.
The use of horse chestnut is effective due to the rich composition of the plant. The bark contains tannins and fraxin, escin and triterpene saponin, as well as fatty oil. Possess healing properties and flowers of the plant. They contain quercetin and flavonoids, isoquercetin and pectin, rutin and derivatives of camiferol. Chestnut fruits include saponin and escin, fatty oil and spireoside, starch and tannins, as well as quercetin bi- and triosidines.
The use of chestnut in traditional medicine recipes is diverse. On the basis of the bark, infusions and decoctions are made. These drugs have hemostatic, anti-inflammatory, anticonvulsant, analgesic and astringent effects on the human body.
Folk healers use and infusion of tree flowers. This remedy is recommended as an anti-inflammatory and analgesic. The seeds of a healing plant find their application. They contribute to the provision of anti-inflammatory effect. Folk medicine did not pass by the pericarp of the tree. The drugs prepared from them are used as anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and hemostatic agents.
A decoction made from chestnut bark is used to get rid of hemorrhoids. At the same time, both internal and external use is recommended. Take such a decoction also for the treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases of a chronic nature. A special effect is obtained by taking a medicinal drug for diseases of the spleen, frequent diarrhea, and with increased acidity of the gastric juice. A decoction from the chestnut bark helps in the treatment of a severe cold, accompanied by inflammatory processes of the mucous membranes of the nose and throat. Its administration is effective in pathologies of the respiratory tract, for example, with bronchitis.
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horse chestnut are used in folk medicine in the form of tinctures. This drug eliminates salt deposits and muscle inflammation. It helps with hemorrhoids, hypertension and varicose veins. Taking tinctures from medicinal fruits reduces the level of prothrombin in the blood. To prepare it, fifty grams of the crushed raw material is poured with half a liter of vodka. The mixture is infused for a week.
Horse chestnut, the use of which with varicose veins also allows to obtain a significant effect, is used for this ailment in the form of tincture. Its preparation is made from the peel of ripe fruits. At the same time, one hundred grams of the prepared raw material is poured with a liter of vodka. The mixture is infused for two weeks in a dark place.