White Chestnut
Botanical: Aesculus Hippocastanum
Family: Hippocastanaceae
Homeopathic remedy: Aesculus Hippocastanum
Description: The Horse Chestnut tree should not be confounded with the Sweet Chestnut, which is not even distantly related to the Horse Chestnut. The Horse Chestnut tree is very erect and columnar. It grows very rapidly to great heights with widely spreading branches. he bud will sometimes develop the season's shoot in the course of three or four weeks. The unfolding of the bud is very rapid when the sun melts the resin that binds it so firmly together. The flowers are mostly white, with a reddish tinge, or marking, and grow in dense, erect spikes. The fruit is a brown nut, with a very shining, polished skin, showing a dull, rough, pale-brown scar where it has been attached to the inside of the seed-vessel, a large green husk, protected with short spines, which splits into three valves when it falls to the ground and frees the nut.
Medicinal uses: Tonic, Narcotic, It has febrifuge properties, intermittent fevers, Ulcers
Keywords: Recurrent thoughts, Unwanted ideas, Arguments with himself, Worrying thoughts, Circling thoughts, Repeating ideas
Compare: Chestnut Bud
Dr Bach's description: For those who cannot prevent thoughts, ideas, arguments which they do not desire from entering their minds. Usually at such times when the interest of the moment is not strong enough to keep the mind full. Thoughts which worry and will remain, or if for a time thrown out, will return. They seem to circle round and round and cause mental torture. The presence of such unpleasant thoughts drives out peace and interferes with being able to think only of the work or pleasure of the day.
Essence: The main problem of the White Chestnut is the inability to rid himself from thoughts that cannot be stopped or removed from the mind. The thoughts and ideas are circling in the mind and cannot be stopped. This can even take form of an argument with himself. The fact that the person is unable to rid himself from the recurring thoughts causes a mental torture. Since the person is unable to defend himself from the invading thought forms, the problem lies in the non-material defense mechanism that needs strengthening.
Although it is not apparent, White Chestnut can be best compared to the Chestnut Bud. The Chestnut Bud is unable to learn from his mistakes literally "walks in circles". This can take also the form of repeating ideas and of repeatedly thinking about the past events and about their failures.
The deficiency of the non-material defense mechanism that allow the external thought forms to revolve in the mind and that occupy the person most of the time can be cured by the White Chestnut and the person is able to strengthen his non-material defense mechanism. In this way he is able to keep his mind clean of invading thought forms.