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horse chestnut |
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horse chestnut, n Latin names: Aesculus hippocastanum, Aesculus california, Aesculus glabra; parts used: seeds (extract), bark; uses: varicose veins, chronic venous insufficiency, phlebitis, fever, hemorrhoids, edema, inflammation; precautions: whole seeds are toxic; patients on anticoagulant medications or who have kidney or liver dysfunction. Also called aescin, buckeye, California buckeye, chestnut, escine, Ohio buckeye, or Spanish chestnut. |
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Then there are horse chestnuts (Aesculus hippocastanum), not of the same genus as "true" chestnuts, whose fruits are inedible unless processed to remove their large concentration of bitter tannins; water chestnuts (Trapa spp. Spanish Chestnut's destiny may hinge on whether he is taught to ``manage his speed,'' as Biancone put it after the Florida-bred son of Horse Chestnut recorded his third victory in five starts and his first at the stakes level. Douglas, it is possible to demonstrate just about anything through a "fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse chestnut to be a chestnut horse. |
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