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Arthritis treatments

horse-chestnut-supplementAs a cook having arthritis in 1 finger, my logical way of beating arthritis is in finding recipes that can help to ease the symptoms of arthritis or cure arthritis all together. I did find that Green Lipped Mussels containing glucosamine could be a help. Yet a green lipped mussels diet becomes boring as well.

To get new inspiration, I took a look at the cream I am using for my osteo-arthritis and it said: contains Aescin or Horse Chestnut. I remembered the chestnuts we used to throw in the fire when we were kids (please don not do this at home..) and eating them fresh or roasted.

Yet this is Horse Chestnut: it looks like normal chestnut but it is completely different (husk of the horse chestnut has less "hairs" and only 1 big horse chestnut seed). Most important: the fresh fruits of:

Horse Chestnut are not suitable for eating nor cooking.

Yet horse chestnut can be consumed in:

  • horse chestnut supplement
  • horse chestnut extract

The horse chestnut tree is huge and very beautiful when blooming though. Yet, for my cooking quest against arthritis, this means: back to cooking-books and back to quick dinner recipes…

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2 comments to Arthritis treatments

  • [...] Do you recognize the fresh fruit in the left picture? Right, it is chestnut. Do not get mixed up now: this is not the regular chestnut you can easily find people roasting next to the road in Malaysia (especially in Kuala Lumpur China town you will find one). Like pointed out in my Quick Dinner Recipes cooking site in my Horse Chestnut post: [...]

  • [...] I already wrote a post in Quick Dinner Recipes that Horse Chestnut is not suitable for eating nor cooking but works as an arthritis treatment. [...]

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