Chestnut is a unique tree growing on ourplanet. 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 effect 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.
Chestnut, of which we will speak today,called 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 orShrub belongs to the Beech 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 form of a heart or a wedge. Earrings thin, 5-15 cm long, containing mostly staminate flowers, and pistillate flowers are located at the base.
Color of chestnut, the medicinal properties of which are widelyare used in folk medicine, appears in May. The nectar of flowers contains up to 75% sucrose. Fruits are spiky tricuspid boxes of green color. Sometimes they are called cocoons. They open on the leaves and inside have a large seed. In September, the fruits are fully ripened.
Seeds are spherical triangularwavy cotyledons with 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, they touch each other flat sides. A lot of insects, collecting pollen and nectar, pollinate the plant.
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 withXVI century in parks and gardens as an ornamental plant. Chestnut grows well on loose and deep soils - sandy loam or clay soils, moderately moist. Well tolerates dry chernozem soils in the steppes, in saline soils, it does not heal well. The tree is sensitive to dry winds, so it is often summer that the leaves burn heavily and fall 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.
Treatment of chestnut has long been used by folkhealers. 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 inarticle) 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.
Traditional healers claim, and representativestraditional medicine in this matter support 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 bodyversatile. First of all it should be said that escin stimulates the production of hormones in the adrenal cortex. They are responsible for the resistance to stress. In addition, it is a powerful anti-inflammatory drug.
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:
Many folk healers recommend in spring onstretch 2-3 weeks to drink infusion of chestnut flowers. 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 preparefor the healer recommends that you drink this remedy twice a year. Therefore, in the 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 toyou warn 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 stomach ulcers and low blood coagulability, which is characteristic of diabetes.
The color of chestnut in folk medicine is used to make a decoction. Prepare it is not difficult. You will need:
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 the broth 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 of the glass.
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 must be pouredliter 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 be taken for 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 thiswill 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 out the juice from the resulting mush and mix it with alcohol. In this form, the color of chestnut from varicose is used.
To strengthen the body and improve immunity, strengthen the heart muscle, prevent viral and colds, it is recommended to drink for two weeks a juice of fresh inflorescences.
Rinse thoroughly under running water flowers,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 treatmentYou can repeat 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.
The color of the chestnut, the photo of which you see in ourarticle, 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 lazy, consult a doctor. Only after you receive a 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.
In this section of our article, we will not talkabout the cleansing of the intestine, but about how the escin, a component that is part of the color of the chestnut, acts. The healing properties of plants 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 cause of their appearance can be many. 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: "What is the use of the color of the chestnut?"
Medicinal raw materials can be harvested forlong-term storage. Collect the color of the chestnut (its healing properties are not lost during drying), arrange the inflorescence in the sun on the 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.
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 chestnut is. His healing properties, as you can see, are diverse. Therefore, use it when treating various ailments, only consult a physician beforehand.
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