INDIA CHESTNUT (aesculus hippocastanum)

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	INDIA CHESTNUT
	*aesculus hippocastanum*

Name
INDIA CHESTNUT

Scientific Name
aesculus hippocastanum

INDIA CHESTNUT

NAMES

Latin: Aesculus hippocastanum

Castilian: chestnut tree of Indians

Portuguese: castanheiro gives India

English: horse chestnut

French: to marronnier d'Inde

Italian: ippocastano, castagna land on water, castagna cavallina, marrone d'India

German: Rosskastanie

Dutch: wilde kastanje

Vasoconstrictor. Antihemorroidal. Con varices and flebitis.

Hippocastanum is a Greek word quo could be translated by "chestnut of the horses". It makes reference to the existing custom in Smaller Asia, from immemorial times, to give to the horses the seeds of this plant to cure the cough to them.

It is an original tree of Greece and the Balkan Mountains, although it is cultivated in the west of Europe and ample zones of North America. In the century xvl, in western Europe seeds were concerned from Turkey and, believing quo the origin country was India, received the nickname "of Indians". In the south of the United States and north of Mexico are five become related species, most well-known of which pavia is Aesculus, with which they have been obtained hybrid for his uses in gardening.

CHARACTERISTICS: Tree of great dimensions, with great leaves you expire, divided in five or more lobes of about 20 cm., together with by an end pecíolo quo sustains them as the fingers to the palm of the hand. The edges are indented. The flowers are grouped in great inflorescencias in the ends of the branches in plume form. The fruit, similar to the one of the eatable chestnut, is protected by very many prongs; in the maturity, it is opened in three gores and it drops the seed (brown), generally one, although of considerable dimensions.

LOCATION: It lives in climates temperings, although, coming from Greece one has adapted to the smooth climate in the five continents. One stands in parks and gardens and, by his dimensions, in very wide streets or highways.

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES: They are very useful against the hemorroides, because besides to calm the prurito, it is them reducing until eliminating them. Also it ends sabañones and the varices.

HARVESTING: The chestnuts take shelter at the end of the autumn, when they are already well mature. In zones of mountain, they can mature later.

USES And APPLICATIONS: The industries pharmaceutical and cosmetic are interested in the production of chestnuts due to their content in saponina, of Great interés in the elaboration of emulsions to accompany the oil by codfish liver, or like suavizante of the skin, to prepare cremas and soaps. The oil quo is extracted of the chestnuts can be used for the alimentación. Like homemade remedy, a decocción can preparar (50 grams of crust or chestnuts in a liter of water) of which will take one or two cups to the day like antihemorroidal or against sabañones and the varices. Also a dye with ¼ of kilo of fresh chestnuts (crushed) in a liter of alcohol, leaving them in maceration can be prepared at least during two semanas. A sopera spoonful to the day is taken once.

A chestnut tree of Indians, whose name is deceptive, quo already comes from the mountainous regions of Albania, north of Greece and Bulgaria. A inflorescencia of chestnut tree accompanied by its lobuladas leaves, next to a fruit in different phases from dehiscencia, when separating the three lobes of its armored deck.

The varices of the legs can be alleviated by means of the water ingestion of decocción of crust of chestnut tree or chestnuts in a liter of water, or the dye of chestnuts with alcohol.

USED MEDICINAL PART

It is used the fruits and the crust.

Family: sapindáceas/hipocastanáceas

Origin: India, Iran, smaller Asia, the Caucasus, the Balkans

Height: Until the 20 meters

MAIN COMPONENTS

The fruits and the seeds contain flavonoides, mainly heterósidos of quercetol and kampferol, to which some cotiledones must their yellow coloration; triterpénicas saponinas (the aescina), to which it must to his bitterness and bitterness; mineral matters, to azucar, starch and oil, to which it must his venous tonic action, vasoconstrictor venous, antihemorrágico, vitaminic P, antiedematosa, antiinflammatory, antiateromatosa and antihemorroidal.

The seminal tegumentos contain D-catecol and tannins.

The crust has heterósidos cumarínicos, the main ones are esculósido (glucósido of esculetol) and the fraxósido one (glucósido of fraxetol), and tannins (acid aesculitánico) with vitaminic action P, antihemorrágica and astringent.

INDICATIONS

It is used in the fragility and congestivos states of the venous and lymphatic system:

varices

hemorroides

varicose ulceras

prevention of flebitis

trombosis

edemas

epístasis

equimosis

metrorragias

CONTRAINDICATIONS

Contraindicated in the pregnancy and the children, and the escina is necessary to have precaution in its internal use is irritating of the alimentary canal, being able to produce to high doses you feel nauseous and diarreas. Also it can cause midriasis and somnolencia. To therapeutic dose he is not toxic.

EXTERNAL USE

In external use he is antiinflammatory, antiedematoso and necrosante. By via intravenous he is toxic (hemolítico).

Tonicos cerebral: Ginkgobiloba, Vincapervinca, Eleuterococo, Arnica, Garlic.

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