DefinitionThis section has been translated automatically.
Bark of the horse chestnut, less common drug compared to Hippocastani semen.
Quality is defined in the European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.).
HMPC monograph: Traditional-use: Internal: leg complaints, feeling of heaviness in venous circulatory disorders; burning, itching in hemorrhoids
ESCOP: no monograph
Commission E-monograph: null monograph: efficacy not proven.
Empirical medicine: diarrhea, hemorrhoids, external: ulcers, skin diseases.
Furthermore: Extraction of aesculin
LiteratureThis section has been translated automatically.
- https://arzneipflanzenlexikon.info/rosskastanie.php
- https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/herbal-monograph/final-community-herbal-monograph-aesculus-hippocastanum-l-cortex_en.pdf
Blaschek W (2015) Wichtl tea drugs and phytopharmaceuticals. A handbook for practice. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft Munich. S 332-334
