10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HORSE CHESTNUT»
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horse chestnut in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
horse chestnut and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Encyclopedia of Fruit and Nuts
The horse chestnut is not related to the true chestnut, Castanea sativa. This tree
is grown especially in avenues or along roadsides for their spectacular 'candles'
of white flowers that cover the tree in the spring. 'Conkers' are the nuts used for ...
Jules Janick, Robert E. Paull, 2008
2
The New Healing Herbs: The Classic Guide to Nature's Best ...
The Eclectic textbook King's American Dispensatory (1898) noted that horse
chestnut helps treat “vascular fullness and capillary engorgement”—not only of
hemorrhoids but of other veins as well. The Eclectics also used horse chestnut ...
3
Litt's Pocketbook of Drug Eruptions and Interactions, Third ...
Herbal drug names are in bold 4-androstene-3,17-dione androstenedione
Acanthopanax siberian ginseng senticosus Actaea macrotys black cohosh
Actaea racemosa black cohosh Aesculus hippocastanum horse chestnut – bark,
horse ...
4
Herb, Nutrient, and Drug Interactions: Clinical Implications ...
Common Names: Horse chestnut, chestnut. HERB DESCRIPTION Family
Sapindaceae (classified in Hippocastanaceae until 1998). Parts Used Seeds.
The bark and leaf of the tree are separate remedies, little used today.1,2
Common Forms ...
Mitchell Bebel Stargrove, Jonathan Treasure, Dwight L. McKee, 2008
5
The Health Professional's Guide to Popular Dietary Supplements
Further, four randomized, parallel-group clinical trials that tested the efficacy of
horse chestnut supplementation against standard medications suggest that horse
chestnut is as effective as o-(ß-hydroxytheyl)-rutosides (3). No data to support ...
Allison Sarubin-Fragakis, 2007
6
Prescription for Herbal Healing
GENERAL DESCRIPTION The horse chestnut is a sturdy, domed tree that grows
to a height of eighty feet (twenty-five meters). It bears leaves composed of five to
seven leaflets, clusters of pink and white flowers, and a spiny green fruit that ...
7
Botanical Dietary Supplements:
Synopsis Results from pharmacological studies and controlled clinical trials
support the use of standardized horse chestnut seed extracts as an alternative
therapy for the symptomatic treatment of chronic venous insufficiency (CVI). In
clinical ...
Gail B. Mahady, Harry H.S. Fong, N.R. Farnsworth, 2001
8
Get Healthy Now!: A Complete Guide to Prevention, Treatment, ...
Astringent herbs, such as horse chestnut, witch hazel, gotu kola, and butcher's
broom, are good to take, although the first two should not be used when pregnant
or lactating. Most Americans have never heard of the first herb, horse chestnut.
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ESCOP Monographs: The Scientific Foundation for Herbal ...
Fluid extracts of horse-chestnut seed gave a weakly positive response (factor 2-3
) without activation and a negative response with activation. The authors
suggested that quercetin is possibly the main mutagenic principle in these
extracts [67].
ESCOP, European Scientific Cooperative on Phytotherapy, 2003
For this reason, I prefer Aes- culus hippocastanum, or horse chestnut. The horse
chestnut is an inedible cousin to the sweet chestnut, and is in the same family as
the famous Ohio buckeye tree. Aesculus is native to Greece and Albania, and ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HORSE CHESTNUT»
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horse chestnut is used in the context of the following news items.
In search of monster trees in NH
A well-known tree on the list is the "William Whipple" horse chestnut in Portsmouth. New Hampshire now has six national champion big trees, ... «The Union Leader, Jul 15»
Golden Girl: The 8 best fake tan beauty products
Not only does it leave you with beautifully bronzed skin, it also contains butcher's broom to reduce fluid retention and horse chestnut to ... «Express.co.uk, Jul 15»
RFRA, chestnut horses and horse chestnuts
As Abraham Lincoln once suggested, you can try to tell people that a chestnut horse and a horse chestnut are the same thing, but most of them ... «NUVO Newsweekly, Jul 15»
Love The Horse
The lovely Horse Chestnut filly, Chestnuts And Pearls scored a decisive victory in the Golden Slipper and Seventh Plain delivered in the ... «Sporting Post, Jul 15»
Weather forecasters of yesteryear
In New England, the belief was if you carried a horse chestnut in your picket you wouldn't get rheumatism. My own father wore a copper ring, ... «Starjournalnow, Jul 15»
Drier's Pearl Slams Slipper Field
She is a beautifully bred daughter of Horse Chestnut and is out of the one-time winning Elliodor mare, Pearl Hostess. That makes her a ... «Sporting Post, Jul 15»
Tranquil magic just a day trip away from Boston
... motorized cart, property manager Josh Hasenfus ticked off the names of trees as if they were his best friends: horse chestnut, Amur cork tree, ... «Boston Globe, Jul 15»
Dead trees costing cities, homeowners thousands
... the beetle, found in Ohio in 2011, kills trees by tunneling into them and can also affect birch, horse chestnut, willow, birch and elm trees. «Hamilton Journal News, Jul 15»
University of West London: Community delighted as 'precious trees …
Residents are “delighted” a conservation area will be protected from development and their “irreplaceable” Horse Chestnut tree saved. «getwestlondon, Jul 15»
Hummingbirds on the decline, but easy to attract
Horse chestnut, an eye-catching deciduous broadleaf tree, is native to southeast Europe, but has become popular in Britain and the United ... «Portland Tribune, Jul 15»