The Horse Chestnut Is Poison
How to use Horse Chestnut as medicine to heal varicose veins, hemorrhoids, and restore some hearing loss.
Fresh Horse Chestnut is poisonous in all of its parts especially the seeds which are the parts used in herbal medicine. Poisoning from the fresh, unprocessed herb causes muscle weakness and spasms, loss of coordination, pupil dilation, vomiting, diarrhea, and paralysis.
Native Americans in California once had a system of using the fresh Horse Chestnut with all of its poison to stupify the fish they wanted to catch. They crushed the nuts and placed them into the lakes and streams making it easier for them to net a fish.
That all sounds awful and may cause one to fear using this natural medicine, however when this herb is processed correctly with the detoxifying required it will prove its harmless purpose in use.
Detoxifying the Horse Chestnut to its safe consumable state can be done without a fancy scientific lab available. Native Americans detoxify the Horse Chestnut by burying the seed (the nut) in the ground for several months. The soil absorbs the toxins from the nut. The nut…
