Useful properties of chestnut flowers Bashny.Net

Every year in May, magnificent white and pink candles are lit on horse chestnuts. This beautiful phenomenon of nature not only gives us aesthetic pleasure, but can also have a beneficial effect on health.





"Site" will tell you how to prepare from the fragrant inflorescences of chestnut irreplaceable for a number of diseases therapeutic agents.

Horse chestnut flowers and fruits of horse chestnut contain flavonoids, quercetin, escin, choline, purines and other useful substances.





In the complex, they have an anti-inflammatory and decongestant effect, strengthen the walls of the capillaries and reduce blood viscosity, lower blood pressure, normalize the amount of cholesterol in the blood.

Due to these properties, chestnut flowers medicines are useful for varicose veins, thrombophlebitis, hemorrhoids, atherosclerosis and arthritis.





From fresh and dry flowers, healing tinctures are prepared that can improve performance and tone the entire body.

Means based on chestnut flowers

1. Hypertension infusion
   Pour 50 grams of dried chestnut flowers with 500 milliliters of vodka. Insist for 3 weeks in a dark place, strain. Drink tincture 2 times a day for 35 drops before meals.
   
   
   
2. Thrombophlebitis tincture
   Pour 3 tablespoons of raw crushed flowers with vodka. Insist for 2 weeks, periodically stirring. Wet a cotton swab and apply it to the sore spot.
   
   
   
3. Tincture against joint pain
   Pour 20 grams of dry flowers and fruits with 50% alcohol. Rub the tincture in the sick places.
   
   
   
4. Juice of horse chestnut flowers with varicose veins
   With a blender grind 200-300 g of fresh horse chestnut flowers and squeeze the juice. Take 25 drops per 1 tablespoon of warm water 2 times a day 30 minutes before meals. It should be noted that the composition of the popular drug for varicose veins "Eskuzan" includes precisely a liquid extract of horse chestnut.
   
   
   
   
   
5. Baths for hemorrhoids and eczema
   Brew 50 grams of bark, leaves and flowers of horse chestnut in 1 liter of water. Concentrated broth add to a warm bath.
6. Ointment with horse chestnut from varicose veins
   People suffering from vein diseases are very popular. chestnut varicose veins. Lubricating sore spots on the skin, you can quickly relieve inflammation and eliminate venous diseases. Grind 5 tablespoons of chestnut flowers, pour 0.5 liters of vegetable oil, boil in a water bath for 1 hour, cool and strain.
   
   
   
   
   
7. Breastbrush decoction.
   Decoction horse chestnut It is used in the treatment of mastitis. It is worth noting that healing flowers are especially effective for mastopathy at the diffuse stage of the disease. Pour 6-8 full tablespoons of dry flowers into a liter pan, pour water to the top, bring to a boil, insist on the night in a warm place (wrap in a blanket) and take a throat during the day.
   
   
   
   
   

Contraindications to the use of horse chestnut are atonic constipation, gastritis with low acidity, poor blood clotting, menstrual cycle failures and hypotension, as well as pregnancy and breastfeeding.

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