Horse Chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) herb
Aesculus hippocastanum
Seek professional advice before taking during pregnancy and breastfeeding. May cause digestive upset in sensitive individuals or at higher doses if taken internally, seek advice before starting to take this product. Avoid prolonged, continuous internal use.
Family: Hippocastanaceae
Part used: Fresh seed (although some traditions also use bark and leaf)
Habitat: Horse chestnut trees and their shiny dense seeds (conkers) are a familiar sight across Europe and cultivated in other temperate regions. They grow to 30m tall with prominent multiple flowers arranged in a tower like structure and spiky encapsulations around the seeds in autumn.
Folklore and History: When you were squabbling about whether baking conkers was cheating, who would have thought that these lovely hard seeds have another long and important lineage, this time in traditional herbal medicine!
Constituents: Predomoinantly triterpenoid saponins and flavonoids, with tannins, fatty oils, sterols and coumarins.
Actions: Anti-inflammatory, astringent, venous tonic
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