Latin, Castana equina, Hippocastanum vulgare;
English, Common horse-chestnut;
French, Marronier d’Inde;
German, Gemeine Kastanie ;
Vernacular Jungli Akhroot.
A large, round-headed tree, 40 to 60 feet in height, with many branches; tawny,
smooth bark, white, not very firm wood. Leaves are opposite,
bright-green straight, digitate and obovate; acute and serrate leaflets.
The flowers appear in June in numerous pink and white pyramidal racemes. The fruit is large, round, pale scab, in a fleshy, prickly shell.
Found in :-Native of Pakistan, (commonly in Murree hills), India, Persia, or Northern Turkey ; Introduced into and abundant in Britain, France and United states.
Introduced in homoeopathic |
By Helbing, 1844. (Allen’s Encyc Mat. Med. I. 48.)
The fresh, ripe nut, without shell.
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(a)Tincture Q: = | Drug Strength 1/10 |
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Aesculus Hippocastanum, moist magma containing solids | 100gm. |
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Plant moisture 120 Cc. | = 220 |
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Distilled Water | 280 Cc. |
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Strong alcohol | 635 Cc.
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To make one thousand cubic centimeters of tincture.
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(b) Dilutions: 2x to contain one part tincture, three parts distilled water, six parts alcohol; 3x and higher with dispensing alcohol.
(c) Triturations: 1x and higher.
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