Color of chestnut: medicinal properties, application in folk medicine, contraindications, photo

Chestnut is a unique tree growing on our planet. In addition, that the plant has healing properties, it absorbs exhaust gases in a huge volume, which poison the air of large cities, neutralizes the negative influence of radiation, which in our time is not superfluous. In folk medicine, bark, leaves, fruits and chestnut color are used. The healing properties of this tree are known to man since ancient times.

Description of the tree

Chestnut, which we will talk about today, is called horse horse. Probably, the tree received such a name because of the fruits that are not edible (in contrast to the chestnut nuts of other species from the beech family). Another version of the appearance of this name suggests that the ripe fruits in gloss and color resemble the color of the bay horse. To the horse chestnut, the epithet "ordinary" is often used.

Chestnut is a deciduous single-tree tree or shrub that belongs to the Bukov family. Its height can reach 50 m. The trunk is covered with a brownish brown tinge with a thick crust with deep furrows. Leaves are short-petioled, spiral-two-row, broadly lanceolate. At the top they are pointed in the shape of a heart or wedge. Earrings thin, 5-15 cm long, containing mostly staminate flowers, and pistillate flowers are located at the base.

The color of the chestnut, the medicinal properties of which are widely used in folk medicine, appears in May. The nectar of flowers contains up to 75% sucrose. Fruits are spiky tricuspid green boxes. Sometimes they are called cocoons. They open on the leaves and inside have a large seed. In September, the fruits are fully ripened.

Seeds have the form of spherical triangular undulating cotyledons, having a large white embryo. It contains a large amount of starch. In the leathery thin shell of nuts are the remains of columns and perianth. Nuts are ovoid-spherical in shape, they come in contact with each other flat sides. A lot of insects, collecting pollen and nectar, pollinate the plant.

Spread

Trees belonging to the genus Horse chestnut grow naturally in the south of Europe, in East Asia, in the north of India.

In Europe, it began to be cultivated in the 16th century in parks and gardens as an ornamental plant. Chestnut grows well on loose and deep soils - sandy loams or clay soils, moderately moist. Well tolerates dry chernozem soils in the steppes, in saline soils does not take root badly. The tree is sensitive to dry winds, so it is often summer that the leaves burn heavily and fall off prematurely. At the latitude of Moscow in very cold winters a little freezes; However, as in St. Petersburg, but in well-protected places grow large and abundantly flowering. Under favorable conditions the horse chestnut lives up to 300 years.

The healing properties of chestnut

The treatment of chestnut has long been used by folk healers. As raw materials, seeds, fruits, bark, leaves, chestnut color are used. In folk medicine, the fruits and the color of plants are most popular, which are often used in official medicine. They are used in the manufacture of drugs from varicose veins. This is not surprising, chestnut is a powerful remedy that effectively dilutes blood, prevents thrombus formation. When administered, it has analgesic, antispasmodic and anti-sclerotic effects.

Bark, seeds, chestnut color (photo can be seen in the article) have astringent, antipyretic effect. Consequently, they can be used in the treatment of gout, bronchitis, rheumatism, cholecystitis, digestive disorders. But the most important healing properties of horse chestnut flowers are in the treatment of various vascular diseases, because this plant significantly reduces the level of capillary permeability, increases their tone, promotes resorption of already appeared thrombi.

What is escin?

Traditional healers claim, and representatives of traditional medicine support them in this matter, that chestnut is a storehouse of useful substances. But the most beneficial effect on the human body has escin - a unique substance that is contained only in this plant.

This component acts on the human body in various ways. First of all it should be said that escin stimulates the production of hormones in the adrenal cortex. They are responsible for resistance to stress. In addition, it is a powerful anti-inflammatory drug.

The healing properties of horse chestnut flowers

These fragrant cones appear on trees in May, the peak of flowering is observed at the end of the month. This time is most favorable for collecting and drying flowers, making broths from fresh raw materials.

Chestnut flowers have many useful properties:

• Strengthen immunity;
• Increase the elasticity of the venous walls and capillaries;
• Stimulate the production of hormones that produce the adrenal glands;
• Increase stress resistance;
• Have anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and antiseptic properties;
• Normalize metabolic processes and circulation;
• Alleviate the symptoms of mastitis and mastopathy;
• Remove from the body of salt deposits, heavy metals, radionuclides;
• Support the work of the gastrointestinal tract and normalize intestinal motility;

Chestnut color - use and contraindications

Many folk healers recommend in the spring for 2-3 weeks to drink infusion of flowers chestnut. After a long winter, when the body is weakened, this infusion will have a powerful restorative effect, increase immunity.

Flowers, of course you can dry and prepare for future use, because healers recommend that you drink this medicine twice a year. Therefore, in spring it can be prepared from fresh flowers, and in autumn or winter - from dry raw materials.

Before we start talking about treatment, we want to warn you that all medicinal plants, along with their medicinal properties, also have contraindications, which, if taken alone (without the advice of the attending physician) can cause harm to health.

Horse chestnut is not recommended for pregnant women, people suffering from kidney disease, having a stomach ulcer and reduced blood clotting, which is characteristic of diabetes.

Decoction treatment

The color of chestnut in folk medicine is used to make a decoction. Prepare it is not difficult. You will need:

• Chestnut flowers (50 g);
• Boiling water (250 ml).

Pour fresh or dried flowers with boiling water in enameled dishes and cover the container with a lid. Let the flowers steep for 3 hours. Take a decoction in the morning and in the evening for half a cup.

You can insist on a water bath color chestnut. His healing properties do not change from this. In this case, the same amount of raw materials and water is used, the only difference is that the mixture should be held on low heat in a water bath for about 20 minutes. Only then the broth is insisted. It turns out to be more concentrated, so you can not take it more than 1/3 cup.

How to cook tincture?

To do this, too, use the color of chestnut. Tincture is used in the treatment of varicose veins, thrombosis, hemorrhoids, thrombophlebitis.

100 grams of dried flowers should be filled with a liter of alcohol or quality vodka. Infuse flowers for two weeks in a dry and dark place. Use tincture of 25 drops before meals 3 times a day. The course of treatment is thirty days. In difficult cases, tincture can take two months. But then you have to make a break for a month, then repeat the course.

This is a very effective tool - the color of the chestnut. Tincture is good for arthritis and rheumatic pain.

Preparation of tincture can be complicated, but it will help you to conserve raw materials for a long time. To do this, it is necessary to grind the flowers in the meat grinder without the candle bars, squeeze the juice from the resulting mush and mix it with alcohol. In this form, the color of chestnut from varicose is used.

Juice of flowers

To strengthen the body and improve immunity, strengthen the heart muscle, prevent viral and cold diseases, it is recommended to drink for two weeks juice from fresh inflorescences.

Rinse flowers thoroughly under running water, chop them into a slurry with a blender or meat grinder, wring out the resulting mass and drain the juice. Filter it through several layers of gauze. Pour into an opaque glass container and put into the refrigerator. Take this compound should be 35 drops 3 times a day. The course of treatment is 30 days.

If you do not feel better, then the treatment can be repeated in a month. Now you understand how important it is to collect the color of the chestnut in spring . Application of juice from it rejuvenates the body, calms the nervous system.

Breast Treatment

The color of the chestnut, the photo of which you see in our article, folk healers use (and, they say, very successfully) with seals in the mammary gland. They use it as an external and internal remedy in the form of decoctions and infusions. But let's immediately warn our readers that any compaction of the breast is an occasion for immediate consultation with a specialist. After all, condensation can occur not only as a result of benign hyperplasia. It can indicate much more serious diseases. Therefore, do not be too lazy, consult a doctor. Only after you receive the conclusion that you do not need an operation, you can use, along with the medicines prescribed by a specialist, folk remedies, in particular compresses and tinctures of chestnut color.

Cleansing the body

In this section of our article, we will not talk about cleansing the intestines, but about how the escin, a component that is part of the color of the chestnut, acts. The healing properties of the plant are enhanced by the content of this substance in its composition. Eszin "intercepts" free radicals in the cells of the body. They, having increased chemical activity, destroy molecules (and DNA including). This leads to mutations, the formation of malignant neoplasms, to accelerated aging, aggravation of the course of many already severe ailments. The reason for their appearance can be a lot. It is known that many Ukrainians after the tragedy at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant used infusions and decoctions of this amazing plant. This is another answer to the question: "Why is the color of chestnut useful?"

Stocking flowers

Medicinal raw materials can be harvested for long-term storage. Collect the color of the chestnut (its healing properties are not lost during drying), arrange the inflorescence in the sun on parchment with one layer. Leave them for 3-4 days, until the flowers are friable and brittle.

Transfer the raw material into a paper bag and store it at room temperature, in a dark place. In autumn and winter, prepare vitamin tea or a decoction of dried flowers.

Chestnut honey

What else is the color of the chestnut? The healing properties of the plant are manifested in one more product. In May toilers-bees make chestnut, dark-brown honey. They collect pollen from flowering trees. This honey has a bitter, tart taste and a rich aroma. Its adherents of a healthy way of life appreciate very much.

It is chestnut honey that has powerful bactericidal properties. This is the strongest antiseptic. It is used for ulcers of the stomach, open long healing wounds.

This honey is quite expensive, because the chestnut tree fades quickly, and it is not distributed in all regions.

Today we told you what the color of a chestnut is. His healing properties, as you can see, are diverse. Therefore, use it when treating various ailments, only consult a physician beforehand.