Looking for Horse Chestnut

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Looking for a box or even two of fresh Horse Chestnuts (Aesculus hippocastanum). For one, I make a medicinal extract from them. Yes, I know all the parrots say it's poisonous... Two, I would love to cultivate several of the trees for planting on my property.
If you have or have access to a tree or two and can gather the fresh, ripe fruit to send me, I'll take as big a box as you can muster. If a ten or twelve inch long section of a green branch roughly 5" diameter could be included, that would be fantastic too. Something to carve another of my scoops from for the wood collection.
Not entirely sure, but if I recall the Horse Chestnut won't be shedding nuts till late September in most areas... My usual impatience aside, my need isn't pressing.
 
Haven't yet. Just starting down that rabbit hole. The one that starts with boneset and rats vein teas and gets deeper and wider as you go. Family history of heart and sugar problems have me researching non pharma ways to deal with those type things and the whole thing just snowballed. Probably have a couple pounds of 'stuffs' around the house that requires a teaspoon to measure doses. Plan to make a bottle of old remedy as per my great grandmother's bitters recipe (if my dad's memory holds up) for the fall and winter sniffle season
 
I grew up in Tacoma, Washington, and I still remember to this day a HUGE Horse Chestnut tree at my elementary school! I used to throw the chestnuts at things! Wish I could have the lumber from that mammoth tree now! Chuck
 
Nature Man said:
I grew up in Tacoma, Washington, and I still remember to this day a HUGE Horse Chestnut tree at my elementary school! I used to throw the chestnuts at things! Wish I could have the lumber from that mammoth tree now! Chuck
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They were fun with a bat. So were black walnut.
 
Man, y'all are weird and deprived in WA. In Texas we played baseball with out bats!
 
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2feathers Creative Making said:
Haven't yet. Just starting down that rabbit hole. The one that starts with boneset and rats vein teas and gets deeper and wider as you go. Family history of heart and sugar problems have me researching non pharma ways to deal with those type things and the whole thing just snowballed. Probably have a couple pounds of 'stuffs' around the house that requires a teaspoon to measure doses. Plan to make a bottle of old remedy as per my great grandmother's bitters recipe (if my dad's memory holds up) for the fall and winter sniffle season
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Ahh. Those are ages old but good rabbit holes to go down. Boneset is one of my all time favorites and I won't be without it. In fact it's roughly near time to start going out looking for it to harvest. I'm only vaguely familiar with pipsissewa, many other things to accomplish what it's known for, though never hurts to have another arrow in your quiver.
I have a considerable expertise with herbs for heart issues if you want to shorten your learning curve.
Most "sugar" issues can be resolved by adding cedar berries (juniperus monosperma) to your tea. They do good things for the pancreas. Believe it or not, Black Strap Molasses is another great one.
 
I looked up the horse chestnut tree and compared them to my dad's tree. Now I will have to look some more... what he was calling horse chestnuts are actually Chinese chestnuts or a similar edible that was planted in an old orchard area on his property. I was wondering why a toxic tree was in his orchard... now I will have to roam his woods. Oh Darn. :cool:
 
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