Google stock image of White Chestnut tree blossoms
I suggested he try White Chestnut and one night he woke up with his mind racing with the thoughts and as he reached for the treatment bottle with White Chestnut in it he thought to himself "I wonder if this stuff is really working." He clumsily got his 4 drops onto his tongue after a couple had landed in his eye.
The next morning he woke up (notice, he had fallen back to sleep) and could not even remember what thoughts had awakened him. White Chestnut.
When our thoughts are acting like untamed horses White Chestnut will come in and calm the stable down.
White Chestnut is added by some to "sleep " combinations of remedies, but if racing thoughts are not at least one of the causes of wakefulness, White Chestnut would not be necessary, nor helpful.
As with all flower remedies, the great blessing and beauty of using these gentle but powerful healers is that if you take an unnecessary or unneeded remedy by itself or in combination with others, it will never harm you or decrease the effectiveness of whatever else you are doing for your health needs.
WE CAN JUDGE OUR HEALTH BY OUR HAPPINESS.
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