Horse Chestnut and Horse Chestnut for Chronic venous insufficiency
Each entry’s own grades, side by side. A grade says how strong the evidence is for one outcome — it does not rank one entry over the other.
Compound or practice
Horse Chestnut
A genuinely useful vein tonic — aescin reduces the leg swelling and heaviness of chronic venous insufficiency.
Grade B1 graded outcomerevised Jul 10, 2026
A structured monograph in Prometheus's bundled library. Its grades are the monograph's own reading of the evidence, not a peer-reviewed review.
Evidence brief
Horse Chestnut for Chronic venous insufficiency
Evidence grade B — Cochrane-supported
Grade B1 graded outcomerevised Jul 10, 2026
Assembled by the app from other entries in this library. It adds no evidence of its own — follow the links to the entries it draws on.
Graded in both
Outcomes are matched by name. Two entries can describe the same outcome in different words, so one listed further down may still be graded in the other.
| Outcome | Horse Chestnut | Horse Chestnut for Chronic venous insufficiency |
|---|---|---|
| Chronic venous insufficiency | Evidence grade BModerate effecthighCochrane-supported | Evidence grade BModerate effecthighCochrane-supported |
Graded only in Horse Chestnut
None — every outcome it grades is graded in both.
Graded only in Horse Chestnut for Chronic venous insufficiency
None — every outcome it grades is graded in both.
Conditions
Only in Horse Chestnut
- Chronic venous insufficiency ImprovesEvidence grade B
Only in Horse Chestnut for Chronic venous insufficiency
None.
What each entry says about the other
- Horse Chestnut for Chronic venous insufficiency’s entry · Goes with: Read the full Horse Chestnut monograph
Both columns are read from the entries as they stand in this library. A comparison is not advice to take either one, and it is no substitute for a clinician who knows the person.