Chestnut tincture
Chestnut( ordinary)
Tree up to 30 m tall with a wide and dense crown and dark brown bark. Leaves opposite, petiolate, palchate-complex, middle leaf more than others. The flowers are white, irregular. Corolla of 4-5 leaves( the two upper - larger and bent).Calyx campanulate, stamens 5-7, pestle with upper three-cavity ovary. Inflorescence - erect pyramidal panicle. Fruit is a round capsule, seated with spines. Seeds are large, brown. Blossoms in May-June, fructifies in September-October.
In Russia it is bred in the south and in the middle part of the European part, in the Caucasus and in Central Asia as a decorative culture.
Medicinal raw materials are bark;in folk medicine - flowers, peel and seeds.
The flowers are harvested in May-June;bark - early spring, seeds - as they mature. Flowers are used both in fresh and dried form, seeds in fresh.
The bark of branches contains glycosides: esculin, fractin, tiglinic acid, tannins and fatty oil.
Flavonoids are found in flowers - quercetin, iso-quercitin, quercetin;glycoside - kaempferol, rutin and pectin substances.
Seeds contain flavonoids - spirozid, quercetin, kaempferol, saponin - escin, tannins, starch.
In 15 fruits chestnut ordinary contains: ash - 2.93%, fats - 60%, proteins - 12%, starch - about 24%, sugar in the form of glucose and sucrose - 16%, sapon - up to 10%, inincluding zecin, protoescin, barytogenol;coumarins: esculin, fra-kin;flavonoids: spiroside and triosides of quartzite and kempferol up to - 0.9%;vitamins B, C, K, carotene, as well as tannins.
In fruits, apple, citric and lactic acid, lecithin, globulin-kostadine, lipase, decotirin are found. In young unripe fruits, there is a lot of vitamin C, calcium and iron.
The nuclei have a large set of mineral elements: potassium - 12, calcium - 0,9, iron - 0,01 mg, zinc - 0,08, chromium - 0,002, barium - 0,74, selenium - 7,5, nickel -0,02, silver - 0,01, iodine - 0,09, boron - 2,0 mkg / g.
In the chestnut fruits there is a strong energy that helps with coughing: 1 chestnut attached to the bronchial point between the nipples on the chest( fasten with adhesive plaster), squeeze the chestnut this zone if you wish to cough, the cough from this effect quickly passes( at night you should not put pressure on the chestnut).
The main effect of chestnut is associated with the presence in it of substances that increase the resistance of blood vessels-capillaries. They prevent the formation of blood clots in the blood vessels, lower the viscosity of the blood, improve metabolism in tissues and, first of all, cholesterol metabolism, exert a tonic effect, promote anti-inflammatory processes, fruits - in lumbosacral radiculitis.
In medicine, horse chestnut extract( venostasin) is used, which is applied internally with drops to prevent thrombus formation, hemorrhoids, thrombophlebitis, varicose veins, and atherosclerosis. The therapeutic effect is due to the fact that the esculin and fractin contained in the plant approximate the nature of the action on the organism to dicumarin, yielding to it in activity.
In folk medicine, infusion of flowers and bark of chestnut is used to treat diseases of the gallbladder and inflammatory bowel diseases. A decoction of flowers or their tincture on vodka is taken with heart diseases;drink with liver disease, dystocia, dyspnea, pulmonary tuberculosis, gastritis, with diseases caused by lifting of gravity, rheumatism;tincture of flowers on vodka are rubbed with rheumatism;tincture on alcohol - with articular rheumatism;a decoction of seeds is drunk, tincture on vodka and tincture on alcohol fresh flowers and leaves are rubbed with rheumatism;the broth of leaves is drunk with uterine, hemorrhoid bleedings.
In the fight against radiculitis resort to the following means: the fruits of horse chestnut to the top fill the jar, pour vodka, close tightly.
First three days to keep in the sun, and then insist indoors for 40 days. Obtained drug rub off sore spots.
In the treatment of joints, gouted chestnut fruit is passed through a meat grinder, appliques with clay for an hour or two, warming compresses.
Chestnut fruits are carried in the pocket with articular rheumatism, stretching 2-3 chestnuts at leisure. Tie a bandage out of chestnuts to the pain zone, sleep on chestnuts with radiculitis( even wrinkled old chestnuts willingly give their healing power).Make beads from chestnuts, soak them day or two in iodized water from the top shell of a walnut. After that they are not only made soft for stringing a gypsy needle on a string or copper wire, but change their brown color to black. Such beads on the neck( in two strands) help the thyroid gland, the heart to work without disturbances, since they lie on venous vessels on the veins turning that are directed towards the heart. The defeat of the venous system leads to irritability, headache, heart pain, bad mood, and beads from chestnuts are the prevention of the above ailments.
If you sit on chestnuts for a short time, especially to creative and intellectual workers, you get inspiration and work becomes more productive, because chestnuts give their energy to your coccyx, or the first chakra. There the energy is born and the reserves of our organism are concentrated, and the chestnuts only feed them.
When treating hemorrhoids, it is recommended to chew 3 fresh chestnuts. If the cones bleed, you should resort to using a bath of decoction of chestnut branches: 50 grams per 1 liter of water with the addition of herb water pepper. Sit, preferably in cool water for 5-15 minutes. Cones shrivel and further do not interfere with bowel movements. You should use such baths after excrement, even if the hemorrhoids no longer bleed.
Remedy for rheumatism for children from 7 to 15 years: 1 glass of chopped fruit, 1 glass of burdock juice, 200 grams of vodka to insist for 10 days. The resulting mixture is used for grinding. Inside take a decoction of chestnut fruits: 1 teaspoon to a large glass of water, boil for 5 minutes. Tincture of flowers and leaves to rub into sore spots.
Chestnut fruits are recommended as a diuretic, hemostatic for hemoptysis, nosebleeds, and decoction from dry chestnuts - as a diaphoretic.
In folk medicine, horse chestnut fruits are used to treat radiculitis. Of these, effective drugs widely used in medical practice are obtained. This - eskuzan, venostasin, descusane, waxed, escozul.
Indications: preparations obtained from chestnut are used for various vascular diseases( varicose veins of the lower leg, hemorrhoids, shin ulcers, venous inflammation - thrombophlebitis), and to prevent the formation of thrombi during labor and after surgery.
Dosage forms( pharmacies): tablets "Esflazid" - take inside by 1 table.2 times a day or injected into the rectum 1 candle 1-2 times a day."Escuzane" is ingested 12-15 drops a day before meals.
Of the crushed fruits of chestnut ordinary prepared alcoholic infusion, similar to the escusan, but somewhat weaker. The eskuzan itself is produced in Germany - it is a water-alcohol extract of fruits with the addition of vitamin Bi. This drug is used as an antihemorroidal agent and with venous spasms, varicose veins in pregnant women, parturient women. In patients with varicose veins, edema and inflammation decrease after taking the drug. Positive results in patients with cerebral edema in the appointment of chestnut preparations are due to its anti-edematous effect.
Preparations from horse chestnut fruits reduce blood clotting, strengthen the walls of capillaries and veins, prevent the formation of thrombi in the blood vessels and promote the resorption of the formed blood clots. When treating thrombophlebitis with extracts or tinctures from chestnut fruits, the patients are reduced edema and pain in the affected area, softens and gradually thrombi disappear. A similar effect is observed with hemorrhoids.
In the presence of trophic ulcers of the leg on the ground of varicose veins under the influence of the same drugs, ulcers are gradually cleared, and the process of their healing is accelerated. Good results of treatment with horse chestnut were noted in patients with hypertensive disease with increased blood coagulability. As a venotonic and antithrombotic agent in pharmacies is sold domestic drug - esflazid, an action similar to the action of the escusan.
Horse chestnut preparations, unlike most other medicinal plants, interfere with blood clotting, make it more liquid and prevent the formation of blood clots. They are used for the prevention and treatment of postoperative thrombosis, inflammation and post-traumatic edema.
When ingested, they have a vasotonic, analgesic and antisclerotic effect.
In Bulgaria, from the chestnut seeds, extracts, alcohol extracts and ointments are prepared. Esquiline, isolated from the bark, is used to prepare creams that protect the skin from sunburn.
Traditional medicine uses a decoction of dry nuts chestnut ordinary in inflammatory diseases of the upper respiratory tract. Grind 2 fruits of edible chestnut and pour in a thermos glass of boiling water, infuse 2 hours. Take 2 tablespoons 5 times a day for chronic diarrhea and kidney disease.
In Georgia, chestnut is used as a diuretic. Infusion and decoction of fruits, leaves and bark are prepared in a ratio of 1:10 and take 2 tablespoons 3-5 times a day.
Abroad in medical practice for diseases of the cardiovascular system, veinostasin is used, consisting of horse chestnut and vitamin B fruit extract 1 , and vasotonin containing horse chestnut nuts extract in combination with arnica and a complex of B vitamins. Venostasin stimulates antithromboticactivity of blood serum and is effective in venous stagnation in pregnant and parturient women.
Now in Germany, the drug is reparil, which is used mainly abroad as an anti-inflammatory, anti-edema and anti-thrombotic agent.
As a haemostatic agent for uterine hemorrhoidal hemorrhages, sometimes roasted and crushed horse chestnut seeds or decoctions from the bark are sometimes used.
From the best side, a useful drink made of chestnut fruits, the so-called "chestnut kvass", has proved itself. Take 20-25 fruits, cut each nut in half, fold these halves in a gauze pouch together with a small load in the form of a stone and place the contents of the bag in a 3- or 5-liter jar. Pour nuts 2.5 liters of chilled boiled water, add 1 glass of sugar, one glass of milk whey or sour cream. The bag with the contents should lie on the bottom of the jar, which is covered with 3 layers of gauze and put in a warm and dark place for fermentation. After 2 weeks kvass is ready for use. Take 2 glasses a day for a month, several times a day.
After the kvass is separated, the remaining chestnuts can be refilled with water, adding 1 glass of sugar to 3 liters of water. This "secondary" kvass will be ready in a day. Thus, kvass from the same chestnut fruits can be cooked for several months. But it's best to add 3-4 new chestnuts every 2 weeks.
This very pleasant taste and useful drink helps to purify the body of radionuclides and heavy metals, restores the epithelium of the mucous membrane of the stomach and intestines and provides the body with many mineral elements, for example, calcium, copper, cobalt, etc. You can strengthen your health andget rid of many risk factors for developing cancerous tumors.
Fruits and bark that contain phytosterol, resinous, tannic and other substances are used for diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, especially for chronic diarrhea, swelling of the mucous membranes, with kidney diseases.
Like walnut, many parts of chestnut have an effective curative property - fruits, peel, bark and flowers.
The prophylactic property for regulating the normal rhythm of the heart has the following composition: 45 crushed chestnuts pour in a glass of boiling water, boil for 15 minutes. Take 300 ml in the morning and in the evening. A similar effect has 12-15 drops of the escusine preparation with the addition of sugar 3 times a day before meals.
With varicose dermatitis, the inside is prescribed an infusion of seeds, bark and leaves. Local poultices are applied from fresh and mashed leaves. They lubricate the affected area. Tincture is prepared from 2 parts of fruits and 1 part of vodka, to insist 15 days.
Squeezed juice from fresh chestnut juice takes 25-30 drops 2 times a day with varicose veins, and alcohol tincture - 40 grams of flowers per 1 liter of alcohol - is used to rub joints with rheumatism. As a hemostatic agent, tincture is applied at the rate of 50 grams of flowers per 0.5 liters of 50 per cent vodka for 30-40 drops 3-4 times a day for 3-4 weeks.
In folk medicine infusion of bark, flowers and seeds is used as an antipyretic and astringent and for the treatment of various rheumatic diseases, sciatica, as well as bronchial catarrh, varicose veins on the legs, diseases of the nasal mucosa, with vasospasms, diseases of the gallbladder, chronic digestive disorders, gout, treatment of long-healing wounds and hemorrhoids.
When treating whooping cough in children, use infusion of leaves: 1 tablespoon of leaves pour 1 cup of boiling water, let it brew. Give children 1 tablespoon 3 times a day for two weeks.
In the US and other countries, chestnut leaves are used, especially fresh ones, in the form of pertussis with pertussis.
In the leaves of chestnut horse are concentrated: vitamin C, glycosides, pectin and tannins;flavonoids - quercitrin, isokvertsitrin, quercetin, rutin, spireozide, ostralagin;carotenoids - lutein, violaxanthin.
Leaves in broth - hemostatic with uterine bleeding( 1 tablespoon per 1 cup of broth), drink 1 tablespoon 4-6 times a day.
"If you have foot pains, you should walk along the bridge on which the leaves of chestnut lie, and all the troubles will go away," the Corsican old women say, and they know the life firsthand.
2 tablespoons of chestnut leaves, pour in a thermos glass of boiling water, infuse for 1 hour, drain. Take 2 tablespoons 5 times a day with internal bleeding.
1 part of leaves or flowers pour 15 parts of warm boiled water, close and infuse for 3-4 hours. Drink, like tea, 2 glasses a day, to strengthen the walls of blood vessels and get rid of tumors on the dilated veins.
When taking tea from the leaves of chestnut, you need to monitor the blood pressure. Tea or infusion has a calming effect, so it can take a long time.
With scrofulous inflammation of the eyes - 20 grams pour 200 ml of boiling water, insist half an hour and strain. Use as a lotion.
With chronic bronchitis, broths from horse chestnut fruits are helped: 20 grams of crushed chestnuts pour 1 cup boiling water, boil, strain. Take 1 tablespoon of broth 4-6 times a day. You can take and tincture - 25 drops 3-4 times a day.
20 grams of flowers and chestnut fruits pour 200 ml of boiling water, insist half an hour, drain. Take 1 tablespoon 4-6 times a day. Or you can take a tincture on vodka: 20 grams of flowers per 100 ml of vodka. Drink 25 drops 3-4 times a day.
You can prepare a tincture of chestnut flowers for the winter - 1 part of juice and 3 parts of alcohol or vodka. Take during the winter period of 20 drops 2 times a day, and you can divide by 40 drops into 3 divided doses. It is better to apply with the addition of honey or jam - for faster digestion.
When hypertension is useful to take infusion of flowers of horse chestnut: 50 grams of flowers to insist in 0.5 liters of vodka for 7 days, drain, wring out the remnants. Drink 30 drops of infusion, diluting with water 3-4 times a ratio 3-4 times a day for 3 weeks. Store the infusion in a tightly closed container.
With the expansion of veins on the legs and with inflammation of hemorrhoids, it is recommended to drink juice from fresh flowers 2 times a day, 25 drops per 1 tablespoon of water. After prolonged consumption of juice, pain and cones of hemorrhoids disappear.
In inflammatory processes of the liver and kidneys it is useful to take 25 drops of tincture of chestnut flowers on a spoonful of water.
Hot thick decoction of chestnut flowers is used as a compress on the swollen joints after a dislocation or warm baths after a day spent in the cold.
Tincture of fruits, flowers and bark of chestnut is used as an internal and external remedy for hemorrhoids, spasms of blood vessels, violation of bile secretion, chronic digestive disorders, gout, rheumatism, sciatica. Tincture is prepared as follows: 50 grams of flowers or chestnut fruit pour 0.6 l of 50-percent alcohol or vodka. Infuse for 2 weeks in a warm and dark place. Shake daily, filter. Consume 30-40 drops 3-4 times a day for 3-4 weeks. Keep this tincture in a dark place.
For polyarthritis: take 20 walnuts of horse chestnut, peel them, rub and pour a mixture of turpentine and ammonia into 200 grams each. Shake the contents, tightly seal and put in a dark place for 2 weeks. Periodically shake. This drug should be lubricated before going to sleep sick joints, and then wrap them in warm clothes.
Chestnut bark has curative properties, as it contains phytosterones, resinous, tannic and other substances. Water infusion of bark in folk medicine is considered a counter-active and anti-inflammatory agent. The bark is usually harvested in April-May: 50 grams of bark per 1 liter of water, cook 15 minutes, infuse for 1 hour. Strain and use for sedentary baths.
In the fight against chronic diarrhea, epistaxis and hemoptysis, an infusion of bark is recommended - 2 tablespoons of crushed edible chestnut bark pour 1 cup of boiling water in a thermos bottle, insist for 2 hours. Eat 2 tablespoons 3 times a day.
In the case of leukemia, a decoction of flowers and chestnut fruits is used: 20 grams of the mixture are poured into 200 ml of boiling water, insist for half an hour. Drink 1 tablespoon 3 times a day.
Alcohol tincture from dried chestnut flowers - 40 grams per liter of alcohol - is used for articular rheumatism.
Juice from the peel of chestnut seeds take 25-30 drops 2 times a day, and Escuzane - 12-15 drops 3 times a day for the treatment of hemorrhoids. Chestnut peel is also used for medicinal purposes.
At the first signs of discomfort in the perineum, lower abdomen should take the next nap oh ku: 25 grams of rind brown chestnut fruit pour 250 grams of alcohol and infuse for 10 days, strain, store in a dark place and drink instead of water several times a day.
Homeopathy uses extracts from chestnut seeds, and also prepares tincture from fresh leaves.
Take 50 g of flowers or chestnut fruit in 0.6 l of 50-gadusnogo alcohol. Infuse for 2 weeks in a warm dark place, shaking daily. Filter, store in a dark place.
Take this tincture of 30-40 drops 3-4 times a day for 3-4 weeks.
Preparations from horse chestnut lower coagulability, strengthen the walls of capillaries and veins, prevent the formation of blood clots in blood vessels and promote the resorption of blood clots formed, thrombi gradually soften.
The drug of fruits, flowers or bark is applied inside and outside with hemorrhoids, vasospasm, bile secretion disorders, chronic digestive disorders, bronchial catarrh, gout, rheumatism, sciatica and for treating thrombophlebitis, with leg ulcers and veins. The extract is recommended for use in baths with myalgia and neuralgia.
Bath chestnut infusion from warts
Requires:
bucket of chestnut leaves, water.
Method of preparation.
Chestnut leaves pour over with boiling water, insist 12 hours, strain.
How to use.
In the broth obtained, take a bath for 10-15 minutes. The procedure should be performed every other day for 2 weeks.
Tincture of 30%: 20 drops 3 times a day( with atherosclerosis).
Infusion: 100 g per 2 liters;for sedentary baths( with hemorrhoids).Infusion on 40 ° alcohol of crushed fruits: 20 g per 200 ml;infused 7-12 days, 20-30 drops 3 times a day. It takes 15-20 days of courses. The effect does not come immediately.
Seed broth: 5 grams of a glass of hot water, boil for 15 minutes and drink 1 tbsp.spoon 3 times a day.
Juice from fresh flowers drink 20-25 drops 3 times a day.
Fruits are ground, mixed with camphor oil and lard( unsalted), taken evenly, spread a thin layer on gauze, apply to a sore spot.
"Sandwich" made from chestnut fruits with radiculite
Required:
3 tbsp.spoons of chestnut fruit, 70 ml camphor oil, rye bread.
Method of preparation.
Chestnut fruits grind into powder, add oil and spread on bread.
Method of use.
"Sandwich" apply to the sore spots.
Fruits, flowers and bark of a heat-loving tree, such as horse chestnut, have many curative properties. Prepared from it, the drug perfectly helps with rheumatism, coronary heart disease, varicose veins, vasospasm, thrombophlebitis, hemorrhoids, gout, bronchi catarrh, chronic digestive disorders and bile secretion, with shin ulcers. Also, this tincture is recommended for the prevention of myocardial infarction, for strengthening the walls of veins and capillaries, to reduce the excessive coagulability of the blood. In addition, this tincture contributes to the gradual softening and resorption of the formed blood clots, and also prevents their formation in the blood vessels.
Prepare this tincture, and you will not regret it!
Requires: 50 g of horse chestnut fruit or flowers, 600 ml of 45% vodka "Siberian"( any other can be used with a similar alcohol content, but without aromatic additives) or alcohol of 50% concentration.
Method of preparation. Florine or chopped horse chestnut nuts pour vodka or alcohol and insist in a dark and warm place for 14 days, remembering to shake daily. Then the resulting infusion strain and pour into a bottle of dark glass. Keep the tincture in a dark place.
How to use. It is recommended to take chestnut tincture 3-4 times a day for 30-40 drops. The course of treatment is from 3 to 4 weeks.
With neuralgia and myalgia, this tincture can be used for baths.
Chestnut mask
Required: 15-20 pcs.ripe chestnut fruit, 10 g of honey, 10 g of lemon juice, 10 g of vegetable oil, 50 g of beer.
Method of preparation. Pound the chestnuts to the formation of gruel and add honey, lemon, beer and vegetable oil. All components are well stirred.
Application. Apply the mask for 25-30 minutes. It should be washed with cold water.