Edible chestnut. Benefits of the Healing Tree

Chestnut is not only a decorative tree. It is also a very useful product for human health. Are all chestnuts edible? No. There is an inedible horse chestnut. An edible species is called "ordinary". Sometimes it is called "noble".

Nuts of edible chestnuts are characterized by their delicate taste. They are eaten fried, raw or cooked. From the fruit of this tree produce flour and a drink, reminiscent of coffee. The most popular edible chestnut in the kitchens of the peoples of Transcaucasia and Southern Europe. Horse chestnut is widespread in Russia. It is not used for food.

Leaves of edible chestnut include glycosides and tannins, vitamin K and pectins. In its seeds are proteins and enzymes, fats and starch, sugar, as well as ascorbic acid and other vitamins. Edible chestnut, whose use is also found in other parts of the tree, is characterized by a large amount of tannins in the bark, kidneys and wood.

From the dry fruits of this healing representative of the flora are prepared decoctions, which are effective for eliminating inflammatory processes in the airways. An edible chestnut, whose use is contained in its leaves, is recommended as a hemostatic. At the same time, both infusions and decoctions are prepared from the curative plant. In addition, the edible chestnut can be used to eliminate furuncles, as well as pustular diseases of the skin. With these pathologies, decoctions made from the leaves of the healing tree are applied externally. In case of disorders of the intestine or cystitis is effective alcoholic infusion.

Tannins contained in the bark of the chestnut, help with kidney edema. They are able to eliminate nasal bleeding and gastrointestinal pathology. An edible chestnut, whose benefit is also contained in its wound healing effect on the body, is recommended as a remedy for burns. This uses a decoction of the bark of this healing tree.

Edible chestnut, the benefit of which manifests itself in its vasodilating property, accelerates blood flow and lowers blood coagulability. Healing fruits reduce the fragility of capillaries, contribute to the elimination of blood clots, and also increase the tone of the dilated veins. The seeds and bark of edible chestnut are used in the pharmacological industry. They are used in the manufacture of drugs from hemorrhoids and thrombophlebitis. To remove fatigue of the legs with varicose folk medicine men recommend foot baths with broth chestnut. To enhance the effect, you should simultaneously take the juice from its flowers.

Decoction of the bark of the healing tree helps to narrow the dilated capillaries of the nasopharynx. To prepare the drug should be boiled for half an hour fifty grams of crushed dry raw materials in a liter of water. The resulting broth is used to wash the pharynx in the morning and evening.

People's medicine men did not ignore the horse chestnut. Used in the elimination of various pathologies can be both the bark, and the fruits or flowers of this inedible species. Prepared from them drugs help with varicose and gastrointestinal diseases, reduce blood cholesterol levels and strengthen the vascular walls.