Horse Chestnut

Common name:	Horse Chestnut.
Botanical name:	Aesculus hippocastanum (Hippocastanaceae)
Family:	Horse chestnuts are classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Sapindales, family Hippocastanallae.
Origin:	Originally from the Balkan Peninsula (Greece-Albania), it is now cultivated in many countries for shade and decoration. Other members of the family are trees and shrubs native to the temperate zones of North and South America.
Description:	It can reach 30 meters in height and has striking flower candles in spring and early summer. The individual flowers have wrinkled white petals with a yellow color. basal patch that changes to a dull red color. The fruit has a leather case covered in short spines. The seed is used to play conkers.

horse chestnut

Applications:	Horse chestnuts and horse chestnuts (a similar but often smaller North American species of the same genus) look somewhat like true chestnuts in appearance, but are edible only after careful preparation. The horse chestnut wood is soft and has been used for paper pulp and carpentry, wooden articles and other similar purposes. A compound derived from horse chestnut, esculin, is a pharmaceutical agent used as an astringent and anti-inflammatory. There is an unproven belief that horse chestnut increases the strength and tone of veins in particular, which is why horse chestnut extract is often used to treat phlebitis, varicose veins, and hemorrhoids.
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Patch test:	sheet as is.