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Sweet chestnut, or an edible (Castanea sativa)Large tree in the groves of up to 35 m in height and up to 1 m in diameter, with a single growth - lower (up to 25 m), with a spreading crown and a thick (up to 2 m in diameter) barrel. Leaves lanceolate, serrate-dentate, glabrous or slightly pubescent, leathery, hairy star-bottom. The flowers are dioecious, in the glomeruli. Fruits - nuts with leathery pericarp, concluded on 3 (less often 1-7) in the spherical prickly cupule, which when ripe crack into 4 segments. It blooms in June and July. The fruits ripen in October, fall out of the involucre reveal in October-November.
Almost all organs contain tannins (8-18% wood, bark 10%, involucre of 8-20%, 12% fresh fallen out  leaves, fallen inflorescences 13%). The fruits contain up to 60% starch, about 15% sugar, protein -6% fat - 2%. As a medicinal plant use leaves and fruits. Sweet chestnut has anti tussive, hemostatic and astringent. The fruits of chestnut and nutritious at the same time low in calories, which can be used in the treatment of obesity.
Energy Properties. Chestnut liberates the mind, awakens the imagination, but too prolonged contact with the chestnut tree can cause hallucinations.
HEMORRHOIDS
Pour 50 g of sweet chestnut bark 1 liter of water, boil for 30 minutes in a water bath and pour into the tub with warm water. Take better at night.
Fatigue, decreased tone
Carry in your pocket, two fruits of  sweet chestnut and occasionally massaging them in hand.