What is useful horse chestnut

Horse chestnut is not only beautiful, but also a healing tree. Almost all of its parts – leaves, flowers, fruits and bark – are used in folk and traditional medicine.

Horse chestnut tincture It helps in solving many health problems and is good for prevention. It is used for varicose veins, colds, bronchitis and other more serious diseases of the respiratory system, with atherosclerosis, hypertension, thrombophlebitis, problems with the digestive system and reproductive organs.

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Horse chestnut Before using horse chestnut tincture, you need to consult a doctor. Assign the tincture corresponding to a specific disease and its dosage only in its competence.

But if you doubt that you are a guru of traditional medicine, we have for you a couple of tips for self-use of this miracle tree.





Flowers and leaves of horse chestnut are harvested in May. Carefully cut and dried, constantly turning and sheltering from direct sunlight. Seeds begin to harvest in early September, dried for two to four weeks, spreading a thin layer on the cloth.

In the early spring harvest bark, removing from the branches after pruning trees. Cut into pieces bark is dried under a canopy or in well-ventilated rooms.



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Here are some examples of recipes for the drugs themselves. Horse chestnut bark decoction take for peptic ulcers of the stomach, intestines and internal bleeding.

2 tsp. shredded bark pour 1 glass of boiling water, 1 hour insist on a water bath, cool, filter. Take such an infusion of 2 tbsp. l. 5 times a day. Preferably 15 minutes before meals.



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Fruit tincture Horse chestnut is taken for joint diseases.

10 mature fruits are crushed, pour 500 ml of vodka. A week insist in a dark place in a jar with a closed lid, then filter. Drink 20 drops 3 times a day 30 minutes before meals. From such a tincture also make compresses, applying them to the area of sick joints.





DepositPhotos Flower tincture horse chestnut is used in the treatment of arthritis, gout, radiculitis, osteochondrosis.

50 g of flowers pour 500 ml of vodka. Insist for two weeks in a sealed vessel in a place inaccessible to sunlight, periodically shaking. They filter at the end. Apply externally. Such a tool both cures and anesthetizes.



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The pharmacy sells both tincture and horse chestnut extract. Both are stored in liquid form in a cool dark place. The second is more concentrated. Before using any of them, be sure to read the instructions, which indicate the dosage and contraindications. Like any medicine, if taken regularly and correctly, it can heal, and if abused, cause harm. Be careful and healthy.