Folk Medicine With Horse Chestnut

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Wild chestnut is among the most revered medicines by healers. The plant has been well known in our country for centuries, and the beneficial benefits it has in a number of conditions have been confirmed not only by folk healers but also by scientists.

Thanks to coumarin glycosides, titerpene saponin tannins, fatty oil and other substances contained in the parts of horse chestnut, it manages to take its safe place in our folk medicine.

The seeds, fruits, leaves and bark of the young stems are used for medicinal purposes. The bark is collected during the first months of spring, when the saplings are juicy. The seeds are harvested in the fall.

Wild chestnut parts are famous for their analgesic, venotonic, anti-inflammatory and capillary-strengthening action. That is why they are used in a number of unpleasant conditions.

For example, in bronchitis, cough and gout, a decoction of horse chestnut seeds is taken. To do this, a teaspoon of crushed seeds soak in half a liter of boiling water.

The mixture was allowed to stand for two hours, then filtered. It is taken 100 milliliters three times a day after meals.

For the same purposes, you can make a decoction of the leaves and bark of the plant. One tablespoon of chopped leaves is mixed with a teaspoon of bark. The mixture is boiled for ten minutes in three hundred milliliters of water. Cool and filter. Take one glass of wine three times a day from the decoction.

For sciatica and rheumatism, a mixture of horse chestnuts and brandy is used. The crushed fruit is poured with alcohol in a ratio of 2:10. The substance should stand for several days in a glass container. Then the sore spot is smeared with it.

Fresh leaves are used to make compresses to heal ulcers and varicose veins. The leaves are crushed and the problem areas are imposed with them.

For thorns you can prepare a homemade ointment of horse chestnut. It is made by grating and crushing 6 chestnuts to make a mush. It is poured with a little camphor alcohol. It is applied to the thorn and put to sleep one night. The procedure is repeated until relief occurs.

In prostate adenoma, a mixture of 25 grams of peels of ripe wild chestnuts is prepared, which are ground to a powder and flooded with 2 tsp. pure alcohol. The resulting liquid is left in the dark for two weeks. Then it is filtered and ten drops a day are taken from it. The reception lasts for twenty days, after which a break is made and the procedure is repeated.

Grandma's wild chestnut remedies are said to help with hemorrhoids. You can make a compress of finely steamed cabbage leaves, 6 tablespoons grated chestnut, two tablespoons of olive oil and chopped onion (6 tbsp). The products are placed between gauze and the sore spot is applied with a compress.

In case you have decided to start treatment with horse chestnut, do not start using the herb without first consulting a doctor or a competent healer.

Keep in mind that horse chestnut can also be poisonous when taken on the wrong schedule.