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Horse chestnut is one of the plants of the family called horse chestnut, in Latin the name of this plant will sound as follows: Aesculus hippocastanum L. As for the name of the horse chestnut family itself, in Latin it will be like this: Aesculaceae.
Description of horse chestnut
Horse chestnut is a tree whose height reaches about thirty meters. This plant will be endowed with a wide and dense crown, and the bark will be painted in dark brown tones. The leaves are large, they are located oppositely on rather long grooved petioles. The leaf blade of horse chestnut is deeply palatised into obovate finely toothed lobes, which gradually taper towards the base, and at the apex they will be short-pointed, and uneven along the edge. The flowers of this plant are very fragrant, they are symmetrical and quite numerous. Such flowers are on long pedicels and are painted in white-pink tones: the flowers will gather in large pyramidal brushes. The horse chestnut fruit is a rounded box, which will be planted with thorns, and inside there are one or two shiny seeds, colored in brown tones.
Horse chestnut blooms during the period from May to June, and the fruits will ripen around September-October. As an ornamental plant, horse chestnut will be cultivated in the southern and middle zone of the European part of Russia, in the Crimea, the Caucasus, Ukraine and Central Asia. The homeland of this plant is the Balkan Peninsula.
Description of the medicinal properties of horse chestnut
Horse chestnut is endowed with very valuable healing properties, while for medicinal purposes it is recommended to use the bark, flowers, seeds and peel of this plant. Flowers should be harvested around May-June, while the bark is harvested in early spring, and the seeds are harvested when ripe. It is noteworthy that the flowers of horse chestnut can be used both fresh and dried, and the seeds can only be used fresh.
The presence of such valuable medicinal properties should be explained by the content of coumarin, triterpene glyoxide escin, saponin, starch, tannins, sterols, fatty oil, esculetin and its glycoside esculin, as well as the following flavone glycosides: quercetin, kaempferol, quercitrin, and … Horse chestnut leaves contain rutin, spireoside, quercitrin, quercetin, isoquercitrin, as well as the cotinoid lutein and violaxanthin. The following flavonoids are found in the flowers of this plant: derivatives of quercetin and kaempferol.
It should be noted that this plant is widely used in folk medicine in many countries. The decoction and infusion, prepared on the basis of the bark of this plant, are endowed with astringent, analgesic, anticonvulsant, hemostatic and anti-inflammatory effects. The infusion of horse chestnut flowers is endowed with analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects, the seeds are endowed with anti-inflammatory effects, and the peel of the seeds is endowed with analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects.
In folk medicine, a decoction of the bark of this plant is used as a rather effective external and internal remedy in the treatment of hemorrhoids, colitis and chronic enterocolitis, with diarrhea, gastritis with increased acidity of gastric juice, bronchitis, spleen diseases and a runny nose, which will accompany a pronounced severe inflammation of the mucous membrane throat. In addition, such a decoction can be used as a very effective hemostatic agent for a variety of bleeding, and this is especially true for uterine bleeding.
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