In fruits of horse chestnut include: potassium, calcium, zinc, iron, selenium, silver, iodine, malic, lactic and citric acid, lipase, globulin, and protein and tannin, starch, vitamins B, C, K, ash and fats . Also, they are composed of glucose and sucrose, saponite, coumarins, flavonoids, carotene and other substances.
Chestnuts are very nutritious and hearty. They contain less fat and oil are not as compared with the other nuts. 100g 210 kcal present fruit, 42% carbohydrate, 3, 6 - proteins, 2, 2 - fat. Chestnuts are considered an excellent component of a vegetarian diet.
In folk medicine widely used chestnuts. They are harvested at full maturity period, on a roll of their wings. Next nuts are dried in a warm, ventilated place. They can be used both inside and outside.
You can just wear nuts in your pocket (a method common in the treatment of rheumatism), and fed his natural strength. When mastitis is useful to gentle massage chestnuts. And some of them do special beads that help the thyroid gland and heart function without disruptions. They are good preventive irritability, low mood and headache.
Of great importance for health is an alcoholic extract of chestnut. It has anti-inflammatory and anti-edematous action strengthens the capillary wall, and decreases blood viscosity, blood pressure and the occurrence of fat plaques in the aorta. Such extract normalizes and lecithin cholesterol in blood, and also a painkiller.
At the same time impose Buckeye nuts in a jar and pour vodka. Container tightly closed and keep the first three days in the sun, and then forty - indoors. Obtained by means of rubbing the sick parts of the body. Very often, the extract is used for sciatica.
When the disease is also useful to sleep on chestnuts, tying them to the affected places. Infusion of fruits is often used for diarrhea, chronic bronchitis in smokers, malaria, and a decoction of walnut skins - uterine bleeding.
Often people use a decoction of the fruit and leaves of chestnut. Particulate agents, taken 5 g each, brewed cup of boiling water and boil in water bath for half an hour. The liquid is then filtered and the volume made up to 200 ml. To identify possible side effects take two days for 1 st. spoon once a day. In the absence of reaction to increase the dose 2-3 times a day. Decoction drink after a meal.
Such means quite effective in treating varicose veins (the rate of application is from 2 to 8 weeks), with hemorrhoids (without bleeding cones course of 1-4 weeks), as well as acute and chronic thrombophlebitis, atherosclerosis limb arteries and trophic leg ulcers.
When hemorrhoids can also eat three chestnut or take a bath of decoction of its branches (for bleeding cones). When 50 g this means brewed in a liter of water and the resulting solution was added to the grass smartweed. Make bath after a bowel movement with cool water for 10-15 minutes.
Nuts chestnut concentrated strong energy. Therefore, they are considered to be quite effective in the fight against cough, sciatica and many other diseases. When coughing one fruit chestnut applied on bronchial point between the nipples and fixed plaster. With gusts cough it pressed against the zone. Under the influence of chestnut cough passes soon. At night, such a procedure is not recommended.
It is very useful to sit on chestnuts workers intellectual or creative work. Even after a short procedure will give the fruit its energy coccyx from which it originates, and where the focus of the human body reserves. The result will be the emergence of inspiration and increased labor productivity.
With regard to the contraindications in the treatment of nuts chestnut, it should be noted that self-healing is not desirable - chestnut greatly dilutes the blood. Medications with chestnut are not recommended for pregnant women, lactating women and people with liver disease, kidney and gipotonikam.