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