Chestnut: useful properties and application in folk medicine

In Russia, only wild chestnuts grow, they are also called noble, but they have nothing in common with edible nuts, they even belong to completely different families. Homeland of edible chestnuts is the Balkan Peninsula. Chestnut trees can often be seen in many cities and countries.

Their brilliant and mouth-watering fruits attract urban residents, many try to use them in cooking, but this is not safe for health. In Russia the horse chestnut (an acorn) has well got accustomed. The edible chestnut began to be eaten by our ancestors even before the grain crops.

In the Mediterranean countries it is distributed in the wild. This plant is well established on acidic soil and favorably tolerates frosts. Chestnut trees are long-lived, they live about 300 years and fruit begin only from the age of 60 years.

Chestnut is rich in nutrients, it is also widely used in non-traditional medicine for the treatment of various ailments. Chestnuts are not an exotic product, they are easy to get in supermarkets. This product is very high in calories and nutritious, so people who are obese or overweight should use caustic chestnuts to eat.

It should be noted that in the ripened fruit of vitamins several times more. Chestnuts are rich in vitamins A, B, C, minerals (potassium, phosphorus, iron, magnesium, copper, calcium), fiber, proteins and carbohydrates. In addition to the fruits, you can eat directly the leaves themselves, which contain vitamin K, pectins, glycosides, rutin, carotenoids, flavone compounds and tannins.

Chestnut, edible, healthy

Most people do not suspect that in addition to pleasant taste, these fruits are still a source of vitamins and useful microelements necessary for our body. In nontraditional medicine, horse and edible chestnut are used. From fruits, a healing extract is obtained, with which you can restore the tone, strengthen the capillaries, vessels, normalize the blood circulation.

Leaves and nuts are pre-dried and cooked from them a medicinal broth that is used for inflammatory diseases of the respiratory system. In turn, fresh leaves help patients with whooping cough. In diseases of the kidneys and the digestive tract, broth from the chestnut and tree bark helps a lot. Also, this broth is used as a lotion for abscesses and abscesses.

Chestnut is used to treat dysentery and inflammatory diseases of the urinary tract. Infusion of flowers, bark and seeds has an astringent and antipyretic property. This infusion is indicated for rheumatism, cataracts of the lungs and for the restoration of digestion.

Chestnut is especially effective for varicose veins. To get rid of this disease, use different parts of the chestnut tree, from which are prepared decoctions, ointments and lotions. When the chestnut begins to bloom, it is necessary to collect its flowers and squeeze out the juice from them, then dilute with water in the proportion of 30/1. This infusion rubbed sore spots several times a day.

Chestnut edible helps women well in painful and profuse menstruation, as well as during menopause. To do this, use juice from the inflorescences of chestnut and dilute in 10 gr. Water for 30 drops of juice, eat twice a day.

Chestnut honey is especially valued for its antimicrobial effect, it is recommended to use it for intestinal disorders and vascular diseases. Chestnut honey has a slightly bitter taste, it is rich in a whole complex of vitamins. It can be stored for up to three years without crystallization.

The useful properties of the edible chestnut are not lost even when cooking. Usually the fruits are fried and eaten in a cooled form.