Varicose veins are basically veins that bulge. Varicose veins on legs are most common, but hemorrhoids are also varicosities. And while advanced varicose veins may need to be dealt with surgically, ...

South African Horse of the Year Horse Chestnut , who began his stud career at Claiborne Farm near Paris, Ky., died Feb. 19 of heart failure in his stall at the Rupert family's Drakenstein Stud Farm in ...

Over the past few years newspaper headlines suggesting that various alien invaders are decimating the British horse chestnut tree (Aesculus hippocastanum) and that all affected trees should be removed ...

Have you ever heard of a horse chestnut tree? About 10 years ago, I was looking through a catalog from Forest Farm, a company that specializes in unusual trees and shrubs, and came across the horse ...

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, but if ...

An herb with the unlikely name of horse chestnut may prove to hold some of the keys to managing chronic venous insufficiency (CVI). Approximately 10%-15% of men and 20%-25% of women are afflicted by ...

I do not see many horse chestnuts in home landscapes and your tree is a beautiful specimen. It appears that your tree is suffering from a common fungal disease called horse chestnut leaf blotch.

Horse chestnuts, sweet chestnuts, marrons–so many names for fruits that look very similar. But don’t be fooled. These are not synonyms for the same fruit. myHOMEBOOK explains the differences between ...

DOES IT WORK: Horse chestnut extract has been used to treat varicose veins with a fair degree of success, writes Dónal O'Mathúna… DOES IT WORK:Horse chestnut extract has been used to treat varicose ...

Each spring, a horse chestnut tree on the University of Colorado’s Boulder campus puts on a floral display that stops people, even some of the multitasking undergraduates, in their tracks. The tree is ...

The spiny fruits of the horse chestnut tree are about 2 to 21/2 inches in diameter. They are much different than the pods of the sweet chestnut tree, which are covered thickly with needlelike quills ...

Horse chestnuts are imperilled by the leaf-miner moth that eats the foliage from these iconic trees whose seeds, conkers, have been made into toys for generations. The finding comes from the ...