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Common Horse-chestnut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Common Horse-chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) is a large deciduous tree, native to a small area in the mountains of the Balkans in southeast Europe, but widely cultivated throughout the temperate world. Usually only 1-5 fruit develop on each panicle; the fruit is a green, softly spiky capsule containing one (rarely two or three) nut-like seeds called horse chestnuts and also known as conkers. They are reputed to be good for horses with wind, but this is unproved and feeding them to horses is not advisable. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Common_Horse-chestnut   (626 words)

Aesculus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Common Horse-chestnut is also used as a food plant by The Sycamore, another species of moth. The most familiar member of the genus worldwide is the Common Horse-chestnut Aesculus hippocastanum, native to a small area of the Balkans in southeast Europe, but widely cultivated throughout the temperate world. The use of the term 'horse' refers to their strength or inedibility, the word 'horse' originally meant strong/powerful and does not here refer their fitness as fodder for horses, except in folk etymology. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aesculus   (661 words)

CHESTNUT - LoveToKnow Article on CHESTNUT Chestnuts (the fruit of the tree) are extensively imported into Great Britain, and are eaten roasted or boiled, and mashed or otherwise as a vegetable. The trees are very abundant in the south of Europe, and chestnuts bulk largely in the food resources of the poor in Spain, Italy, Switzerland and Germany. The latter are borne three together, invested by a cupule of four green bracts, which, as the fruit matures, grow to form the tough green prickly envelope surrounding the group of generally three nuts. www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CH/CHESTNUT.htm   (1334 words)

horse chestnut Today, horse chestnut seed extract is still used for these conditions and is particularly popular in Germany, where it ranks among the most common prescription herbal remedies (after ginkgo biloba and St. John's wort). Horse chestnut may interfere with the action of anticoagulants (blood-thinners) such as warfarin (Coumadin), intensifying the effect of the medication and increasing the risk of bleeding. In reinforcing the strength of veins, horse chestnut is believed to also promote their elasticity and prevent swelling and long-term damage to them. www.wholehealthmd.com /refshelf/substances_view/1,1525,10037,00.html   (889 words)

Chestnut - Search Results - MSN Encarta Horse Chestnut, common name for a family of trees, and especially for the species known as the common horse chestnut. Chestnut, common name for a genus of trees of the beech family, and for their fruit. Water Chestnut, common name for any member of a genus of aquatic herbs, and for their nut-like fruit, and also for the Chinese sedge and its edible... uk.encarta.msn.com /Chestnut.html   (115 words)

Horse Chestnut Seed Extract The most common dosage of horse chestnut is 300 mg every 12 hours, for up to 12 weeks (containing 50 to 75 milligrams of aescin per dose), for a total daily dose of 100 mg aescin. Horse chestnut seeds are the most commonly used plant part for making medicinal remedies and herbal preparations. Historically, leaves of the horse chestnut plant have been used medicinally to relieve cough, to reduce fever, and to relieve pain and inflammation associated with arthritis. www.nutrasanus.com /horse-chestnut.html   (716 words)

botanical.com - A Modern Herbal Chestnut, Horse - Herb Profile and Information It is concluded that Horse Chestnuts are not poisonous to any of the farm animals experimented with, within the limits of what they can be induced to eat, and that they form a highly nutritious food. The Horse Chestnut, Aesculus hippocastanum, which has also been known as Hippocastanum vulgare (Gaertn.), is an entirely different tree from the Sweet Chestnut, to which it is not even distantly related, and is of much more recent importation to English soil. ---Cultivation---The Horse Chestnut is generally raised from the nuts, which are collected in the autumn and sown in the early spring. www.botanical.com /botanical/mgmh/c/chehor58.html   (1160 words)

Horse Chestnut- Increases venous circulation Common Name: Horse Chestnut or Conker tree seed Horse chestnut is used for swelling of legs from venous insufficiency, hemorrhoid, leg cramping, prostate disease, and skin itching. The name horse chestnut probably derives from the fact that during the Middle Ages, fruits of this tree were used to feed cattle and horses. www.herballove.com /library/herbal/horsechestnut.asp   (412 words)

Horse Chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) In addition, common symptoms which accompany lower leg swelling; such as leg pain, heaviness and fatigue, are typically reduced in individuals taking horse chestnut seed extract. Horse chestnut has also been taken internally for leg ulcers and frostbite, and applied externally as a lotion, ointment, or gel. Horse chestnut is a traditional remedy for leg vein health. www.homeherbs.com /0/product/0/522-Horse_Chestnut.html   (1397 words)

Buckeyes and Horse Chestnuts The Common Horse Chestnut, which lines the boulevards of Paris, is a native of Greece and Bulgaria. The native buckeyes and their imported relatives, the horse chestnuts, are much different from the true chestnut but among them are some of our finest street and shade trees. The tree probably got its common name, buckeye, from the fact that the nut, on one side, has a large pale-colored spot and is presumed to resemble the eye of a deer. www.newton.dep.anl.gov /natbltn/200-299/nb266.htm   (622 words)

REPORT FROM THE FIELD: Will the chestnuts bloom again in Ukraine? (05/16/04) Over the last decade this common tree has become endangered by a moth-like insect called the horse chestnut leafminer (Cameraria ohridella). The horse chestnut tree (Aesculus hippocastanum L.) - not a true chestnut - is native to the northern hemisphere mostly in the Balkans, Caucasus, Asia Minor and the Himalayas. In the early stages of the manifestation of the infection, massive dying off of horse chestnuts is unlikely, but the long-term impacts of the leafminer are harder to predict. www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/2004/200420.shtml   (1162 words)

horse chestnut on Encyclopedia.com HORSE CHESTNUT [horse chestnut] common name for some members of the Hippocastanaceae, a family of trees and shrubs of the north temperate zones and of South America. Horse chestnuts and buckeyes (as the nuts too are called) somewhat resemble true chestnuts in appearance but are edible only after careful preparation. The wood of the horse chestnut and of the buckeye is soft; it has been used for paper pulp and for carpentry, woodenware, and other similar purposes. www.encyclopedia.com /html/h/horseche.asp   (830 words)

ARBORETUM JOURNAL The edible chestnuts are closely related to oaks and are different in many ways from the horse chestnuts; most important, their nuts are sweet and delicious. The “x” in the botanical name of the red horse chestnut indicates it is a garden hybrid and cannot be found in the wild. Chestnut flowers lack petals, and the males are in the form of a long catkins separate from the inconspicuous females. www.csuchico.edu /pub/inside/archive/02_05_02/arboretum.html   (644 words)

2tgbitxt.txt DISTRIBUTION The tree is known in Japan as Tockinoki, and is common in the forests at 1500 to 5500 feet elevation in the mountains of the main island, descending to lower levels in Yezo. DISTRIBUTION It is a common tree in the north-west Himalayas from the Indus to Nepal, occurring at elevations of from 4000 to 10,000 feet, and also occurs in Afghanistan. The tallest tree I have seen is in a grove of beech, chestnut, oak, and silver fir, which grows near the house at Petworth Park, the seat of Lord Leconfield in Sussex, on a deep greensand formation. djvued.libs.uga.edu /text/2tgbitxt.txt   (18936 words)

HERBS & HEALTH Afterwards, the medical use of this plant was virtually abandoned; the discovery of its active substance - at the beginning of the 20th century - led to the re-evaluation of the common horse chestnut and especially of its fruits. The common horse chestnut is a big tree with round foliage and rough dark rind. The history of the common horse chestnut began in the 16th century, when this plant - originally from Asia Minor – was taken to Europe to embellish our parks. www.dolomiti.it /eng/salute/erba10.htm   (423 words)

Horse Chestnut The name has been said to be derived from the use of the seeds for the relief of cough in horses, and more fancifully from the horseshoe-like scar left by the falling leaves, the ends of the "fibro-vascular bundles," or chief veins, being marked by nail-like imprints. The upper part of the thyrse bears flowers which are generally exclusively staminate, or male, and disappears after the discharge of their pollen; so that eight, six, or more commonly but two or three, fruits will in autumn be the sole result of all the beauty of an entire pyramid of blossoms. To the Linnaean botanist the tree is exceptional in having seven stamens, four, five, or ten being far more common numbers; and in the center of the flower, beneath the single style, is the three-chambered ovary, each chamber containing the rudiments of two seeds. www.2020site.org /trees/horse.html   (1359 words)

Information on the herb horse chestnut. Horse chestnut is a bitter, astringent herb that lowers fever and reduces local edema. This page contains information on horse chestnut and how it is used as a herb in alternative herbal treatments to treat ailments and problems, such as skin complaints and general skin care, to promote an even complexion and reduce swelling, while improving circulation. The horse chestnut tree is large with sticky buds and palm-like leaves. www.ageless.co.za /herb-horse-chestnut.htm   (560 words)

CHESTNUT (nux Castanea) - Online Information article about CHESTNUT (nux Castanea) HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. RING (O.E. hring; a word common to Teutonic languages; and probably cognate with the Lat. hundred horses, on the slopes of See also: encyclopedia.jrank.org /CHA_CHR/CHESTNUT_nux_Castanea_.html   (2127 words)

Horse chestnut As a remedy for circulatory ailments, especially disorders of the veins, horse chestnut is often combined with other tonic herbs for cardiovascular health such as hawthorn, linden, ginkgo, and yarrow. Horse chestnut has grown increasingly popular in the United States as a natural therapy for varicose veins. Commission E, the regulatory agency governing the use of herbal medicines in Germany, has approved horse chestnut for the treatment of chronic venous insufficiency of various origins; sensations of pain, and heaviness in the leg, as well as postthrombotic syndrome. www.susanlovemd.com /takecharge/alternatives/herbs/horsechestnut.htm   (681 words)

Botany.com Encyclopedia of Plants and Garden with a Botanical Dictionary Hippocastanum (Common Horse Chestnut) is a handsome tree that grows from 40 to 60 feet high. These trees are natives of North America, Europe and Asia and are commonly known as Buckeyes and Horse Chestnuts. Spring or fall (when the weather is mild and the ground not saturated) are the best times to plant Horse Chestnuts and Buckeyes. www.botany.com /plant.aspx?plantid=58   (463 words)

Horse chestnut. DermNet NZ A compound derived from horse chestnut, aesculin, is a pharmaceutical agent used as an astringent and anti-inflammatory. Horse chestnuts and buckeyes (a similar but often smaller North American species of the same genus) somewhat resemble true chestnuts in appearance but are edible only after careful preparation. The wood of the horse chestnut is soft and has been used for paper pulp and carpentry, woodenware, and other similar purposes. dermnetnz.org /dermatitis/plants/chestnut.html   (341 words)

chestnut horse chestnut - horse chestnut, common name for some members of the Hippocastanaceae, a family of trees and shrubs... Chestnut wood is porous, but it is very durable in soil and has been popular for fence posts, railway ties, and beams. Efforts are being made to breed a type of American chestnut resistant to the disease, by crossing it with the blight-resistant Chinese and Japanese chestnuts, in order to replace the old chestnut forests. www.factmonster.com /ce6/sci/A0811739.html   (228 words)

Horse Chestnut UK Most people are familiar with the common horse chestnut and it comes as a surprise to learn that there are in fact about 15 species and a large number of cultivars. Another feature that they all have in common is their ‘candles’: flowers held in erect spikes that show up over a large distance. They are all deciduous and tend to have compound leaves with individual leaflets radiating out from a central point. www.greenfingers.com /articledisplay.asp?id=1183   (193 words)

Horse Chestnut - Flora ProvenceBeyond The Horse Chestnut grows to about 25-30 m high, with a large, rounded shape, and the trunk is thick and usually short. The sweet chestnut is grown for its fruit, which looks similar to the horse chestnut, but has a flattened side and has the advantage of being edible. The fruit of the horse chestnut is a spiny, green sphere about 4 cm diameter. www.beyond.fr /flora/marron.html   (248 words)

Aesculus hippocastanum In Turkey an extract of the nuts was used to treat respiratory ailments and colds in horses. A decoction of the seeds was also sometimes taken in very small amounts for asthma, though this has been vehemently discouraged by the American Food and Drug Administration due to the extremely poisonous nature of the seeds. More recently an extract of the seeds has been used as a remedy for hemorrhoids. www.botany.ubc.ca /facilities/arboretum/UBC048.HTM   (340 words)

The American Chestnut Foundation These Castanea dentata were not the common horse chestnut, nor the Chinese chestnut, but were healthy 40 year old American chestnut trees ideal for the chestnut restoration program by the foundation. The goal of the program is to pollinate flowers on American chestnut trees with pollen from trees that have resistance to the chestnut blight.The resulting chestnuts, harvested in the fall may contain improved germplasm. She explained that the Massachusetts effort like that in other states is to develop the fullest American chestnut characteristics as well as local adaptability. www.acf.org /pollinate.htm   (514 words)

Lumber - List of Items - MSN Encarta , common name for a family of trees, and especially for the species known as the common horse chestnut. Lumber - List of Items - MSN Encarta encarta.msn.com /refedlist_210029502_5.20/horse_chestnut.html   (27 words)

The Common Horse Chestnut purposes therefore the Horse Chestnut can be found in towns, private gardens, and in * If a seed lands on fertile soil, it can germinate and grow into a new Horse Chestnut * Aescin, the active ingredient in the Horse Chestnut seed can be used as an astringent, www.pierce.ctc.edu /rmay/BIOL203/ron/CommonHorseChestnut.htm   (588 words)

FAUSTO APPETENTE DIE The Dominicans have, therefore, an almost boundless field in which to labor for the common welfare. How many, too, ungrateful and forgetful children of the Church, are turned away from the Vicar of Jesus Christ by ignorance of facts or by a perverse will whom it is necessary to lead to the common bosom. That priests may minister fittingly to the necessities of all these by the Word of God, how zealous must they be for the salvation of others and how grounded in solid knowledge. www.papalencyclicals.net /Ben15/b15fadie.htm   (1617 words)

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