Horse chestnut ointment: This is how you make the healing cream yourself

Horse chestnut ointment helps against venous problems and swollen legs. We’ll show you how you can make the horse chestnut ointment yourself and how to use it.

Horse chestnut ointment: effective against venous disorders

Autumn is chestnut time. The pretty seeds of the horse chestnut tree are a popular collecting fun especially for children. But horse chestnuts also contain a number of valuable ingredients with medicinal benefits. Especially with complaints due to vein problems, her effect proven. This includes:

• Pain in the legs
• heavy legs
• Calf cramps
• Varicose veins
• Swelling
• itching

Especially the one contained in the seeds Saponins have a vascular sealing, anti-inflammatory and vein-strengthening effect. They also dehydrate. This tightens the veins, stimulates blood circulation and reduces swelling.

The basis for your ointment: horse chestnut tincture

The basis of your homemade healing ointment is a horse chestnut tincture. Depending on how patient you are, you can buy these ready-made from the pharmacy or you can simply prepare them yourself.

For the horse chestnut tincture, cut a good handful of fresh horse chestnuts into pieces and peel them. Put the pieces in a glass and add high percentage grains so that the chestnuts are well covered with liquid. After a steeping time of two to three weeks, you can strain your finished horse chestnut tincture through a filter.

Make horse chestnut ointment yourself: this is how it works

For the ointment you will need:

• 30 ml organicolive oil or organicSafflower oil from the health food store
• 35 ml of your homemade horse chestnut tincture
• 15 grams lanolin from the pharmacy
• 4 grams of organicBeeswax
• a few drops of essential oil (here, for example, spruce needle or juniper berry oil are suitable. The essential oil is used to stimulate blood circulation. You can also leave it out.)

Prepare two heat-resistant vessels for a double boiler and a clean jar of cream.

Here we go!

1. Mix the oil, beeswax and lanolin together in a vessel and heat it in a water bath until all of the solid ingredients have melted. The mixture should not exceed a temperature of 60 degrees.
2. In parallel, heat your tincture to 60 degrees in the second vessel.
3. Then pour the tincture into your oil and wax mixture, stirring constantly.
4. Take the pot off the stove and keep stirring until the cream cools slowly.
5. Once your cream has cooled to hand warmth, add a few drops of your essential oil and keep stirring.
6. Fill the finished cream into your cream jar and let it cool there for a while.

Now write the filling date on the jar, done! in the fridge stored your ointment will last a good six months.

tip: Depending on the intensity of the symptoms, apply the healing ointment to your legs once or twice a day. To do this, massage it gently into the skin from the lower leg up to the thigh.

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