Horse chestnut FHP / Aesculus hippocastanum PPH

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Pharmacopée française - Préparations homéopathiques
06/03/2012

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• Médecine

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• Publié par: ansm-pharmacopee-francaise
• Publié le: 06 mars 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 5
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HORSE CHESTNUT FOR HOMOEOPATHIC PREPARATIONS AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM FOR HOMOEOPATHIC PREPARATIONS

Aesculus hippocastanum (semen) ad praeparationes homoeopathicas Other Latin name used in homoeopathy:Aesculus

DEFINITION

Fresh seed ofAesculus hippocastanumL.

CHARACTERS

Macroscopic characters described in identification tests.

IDENTIFICATION

Horse chestnut seeds are more or less globose or ovoid. The outer integu- ment is shiny, brown, and contains tannin. The large, whitish spot on the husk is the hilum.

The exalbuminous seed consists of two large fleshy, oily and amylaceous cotyledons which are often fused; the line of suture is more or less conspi- cuous. The curved radicle is situated in a depression either on the commis- sure or on the dorsal surface of one of the cotyledons.

TESTS

Foreign matter(2.8.2): maximum 2 per cent

Loss on drying(2.2.32): minimum 30.0 per cent, determined on 10.0 g of finely cut drug, by drying in an oven at 100-105 o C for 2 h.

The General Chapters and General Monographs of the European Pharmacopoeia and Preambule of the French Pharmacopoeia apply. 2002.