Steinmetz:Aesculus

Aesculus glabra

Also known as (or relevant to) Aesculus glabra Family Hippocastanaceae English Names Glabrous Chestnut Buckeye tree Natural Habitat North America Part(s) Used Fructus Aesculi glabrae

Action febrifuge nerve-stimulant

Aesculus hippocastanum

Also known as (or relevant to) Aesculus hippocastanum Family Hippocastanaceae (Sapindaceae) English Names Horse-Chestnut Natural Habitat Northern and Central Asia Asia Minor Greece Balkan Caucasus Persia Himalaya Part(s) Used Semen Hippocastani Cortex Hippocastani Folia Hippocastani Flores Hippocastani

Constituent(s) seed: crude protein dextrine fatty oil starch gum carbohydrate bitter principle aesculin saponin sugar; leaf: carotin vitamin C quercitrin quercetin tannin resin; bark: aesculin aescutelin argyrin fraxin tannin fatty oil allantoin citric acid; flower: quercetin Action seed: sternutatory vasoconstricting analgesic tonic anti-hemorrhoid febrifuge alterative narcotic; bark: tonic febrifuge vulnerary narcotic astringent; leaf: tonic febrifuge used in whooping cough; flower: anodyne astringent tonic vulnerary anti-rheumatic

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• Information in Von Esenbeck's book