Horse chestnut reduces inflammation and edema, and enhances the tone and fluid balance of veins. Aescin accounts for 3-6% of the seed and is believed to be the primary agent responsible for these ...

Horse chestnut trees are native to the mountains of the Middle East and Balkans but are now grown worldwide. Some horse chestnut supplements are made from the tree’s dried leaves and nut oil ...

Their equinal medicinal use, in conjunction with the leaf scars which resemble a horseshoe, is regarded as the Horse-chestnut’s namesakes. The British schoolyard game of “conkers” is the most famous ...

The horse chestnut grows to 50 feet or taller over time and usually has white flowers with reddish spots. The flowers are quite large, growing from 7 to 12 inches in length.

The horse chestnut tree in front of my house looks worse than ever. Its remaining leaves are brown, and many fell early. Is my tree in trouble? What can I do to help it? — Peggy Schwartz ...

Jockey Eswan Flores guides Old Chestnut to victory in the $150,000 Jacques Cartier Stakes. Old Chestnut covered the 6f in 1.08 for owner Bruno Schickedan, and trained by Martin Drexler.

Horse Chestnut, a South African Horse of the Year, will be shipped out of the United States to take up stud duties at the Rupert family's Drakenstein Stud Farm in the Western Cape in South Africa.

HORSE-CHESTNUT trees are in fruit and a fresh, plump, lustrous brown conker peeping out of its spiky case at this time of year is a lovely find. When it falls from the tree, the leathery husk that ...