The common chestnut is decorative and medicinal properties

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The common horse Chestnut-this tree grows to a height of thirty meters. It has the opposite long-petiolate leaves. Foliage forms a beautiful dense crown. Bright and attractive blooms horse chestnut ordinary. The pictures show its white with red spots flowers, forming a pyramidal inflorescence, resembling candles on a Christmas tree. Flowers on the chestnut appear in may. Of them to fall a round fruit covered with spikes. It stores inside a large brown seed. Once in favorable conditions, the tree can reach three hundred years of age.

The Balkan Peninsula is the place where long it grows in natural conditions, horse chestnut is common. The growing it parks in Russia and other countries of Europe started only in the XVI century. Around the same time he begins to be actively used in medical practice. First it was the recipe for the famous physician and botanist Peter Mattioli, who offered to treat shortness of breath in horses overseas the fruits of this tree. A little later, from Turkey vein specialist in botany, the Clausius brought horse chestnut common in the form of seedlings and planted them in the alley. When the plants bloomed and showed its beauty, they began to grow in France. It was the year 1615. The famous Kiev chestnut trees were planted in the center of this city in 1842, when, in General, it was found that their homeland is the Balkans. Until that time virtually all European botanists believed that the common horse chestnut-this plant, brought from India.

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horse Chestnut ordinary

However, the practical application of its fruits found, oddly enough, American Indians. When the horse chestnut ordinary, brought to this continent by the colonialists has taken root here, the natives learned to cook from the fruit puree, fried them on the plastered stones. Later they began to clean it from the seeds of a bitter and hard shell, soaking them for a few days in lime mortar. After this treatment from him. grind flour. The Indians also learned how to prepare malt from germinated chestnut fruits, and rind is to obtain a narcotic substance, similar properties to opium.

 horse Chestnut ordinary cultivation.

In the Napoleonic times when France was an isolated state, it ceased to import medicinal raw materials, including quinine. Then the military doctors began to extract this substance from the fruits and bark of horse chestnut. These funds are used for the treatment of dysentery, fever and malaria. At the same time, it was discovered that by using chestnut to treat diseases resulting from disorders of blood circulation. The powder of its fruits began to sprinkle hemorrhoids and ulcers on varicose veins. Then European pharmacists began to offer chestnut tincture for the treatment of gout and inflammation in the intestine. Also herbalists France successfully treated them with benign prostatic hyperplasia. In the twentieth century, the chestnut as a remedy has already been used in pharmacology, USSR, Germany and many other countries.


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