Includes:
Esculin buds, flowers and kvercitin tannin, and fruit starches, proteins, esculin, sterol, vitamin P, B1, C and K, minerals.
The bark of the young branches and the fruit are including saponin which is helpful for treating skin ailments. It also makes the blood thinner and less sticky.
Preparation and use:
Horse chestnuts are usually used as a medicine for the venous system. It is often used for preparing a sun lotion. Its tea is very helpful against malaria, nervousness, hemorrhoids, diarrhea and cough.
Spread some brandy on the varicose veins
Take 20 fruits of horse chestnut and cut a cross alike pattern jig on them and pour 1 liter of stronger brandy. Place them in some glass jar and close them with a lid. Keep them like that for 40 days. Use a wooden spoon and whisk them occasionally. Once the 40 days have passed, you will need to strain the composite through gauze and keep it closed in clean bottle. Before every single use you should shake the bottle well because of the deposition at the bottom. Use the remedy on your varicose veins, but don’t massage them. Iterate the process few times a day. You can also use this drink as a layer for achy and swollen legs and for treating your cellulite.
Horse chestnut extract
Grate 4-5 horse chestnut fruits and pour 1 liter of iced cognac over them. Place everything in some clean bottle and leave it to stay for 6-8 weeks. You should consume this extract in drops in order to treat your varicose veins, improve your circulation and thrombophlebitis. Vitamin Q included in the chestnut fruits improves the resistance of the capillaries.
Take 12-15 flowers of horse walnut and freshly grated potato. Add 250 ml of lukewarm cognac and mix them well. Wait for it to cool down. Consume the drops three times a day.
Horse chestnut cream
You will need 20 g of horse chestnut extract (prepared in the same way as explained above) and 60 g of easily heated lanolin (purchase it in the pharmacy). Mix them well with wooden spoon. Then you can envelop you varicose veins with a bandage.
The horse chestnut remedy mustn’t come in contact with any metal. You can prepare it in some glass or porcelain container or plate.
In order to treat diarrhea you should grate half a potato and combine it with glass of red wine or coffee.
In order to treat dysentery you should mix tea from 30g of bark with one liter of water.
In order to treat rheumatism you should mix even amounts of bark of young branches, walnut shell and willow. Use 2 teaspoons of this mixture and boil them in half a liter of water. Leave it to rest for 10 minutes and consume small cup of it in the morning and the evening.
