Blooms Horse Chestnut promotes healthy circulation of the feet and legs. It can assist the functioning of small blood vessels improving tone and diminishing the appearance of varicose veins and spider veins. It also relieves other leg symptoms associated with poor circulation including swelling of legs and feet, leg pain, feelings of heaviness, cramping, muscle spasms and itchiness. Traditionally used in Europe to help relieve arthritis and rheumatism.
Horse
Chestnut has long demonstrated impressive clinical results in the
relief of symptoms associated with capillary fragility and poor venous
tone. Escin, the most active constituent of Aesculus hippocastanum is
responsible for such activity; it tones up the walls of the veins and
improves the flow of blood back to the heart. It also relieves swelling
by stopping excessive leakage through the walls of the capillaries.
Horse
Chestnut has the ability to decrease capillary permeability by reducing
the number and size of the small pores of the capillary walls. This
reduction in capillary fragility and oedema appears to be partly due to
its normalising action on the metabolism of connective tissue.
Investigators
have also demonstrated escin has venotonic activity ‐ the potential to
increase venous tone by increasing the contractile action of the elastic
fibres within the blood vessel wall (it is the relaxation of the blood
vessel wall which greatly contributes to the development of varicose
veins and other venous disorders).
