# Sweet Chestnut

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Bach Flower Remedy
- **Alternative Names:** Bach Flower Group: Despondency or Despair
- **Miasm:** Emotional Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Target Emotional State: Used for extreme mental anguish, reaching the limit of endurance.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Anguish.
- Apathy, faithlessness, nihilism and despair.
- Religious despair with loss of faith.
- The “dark 
night of the soul.” Depressiv e disorders (Must -b.), especially when suicide is threatened with deep -seated 
despair Morbid preoccupation with death.
- Void of emotional life.
- Despair and de spondent.
- Sense of meaninglessness of life may lead to carelessness 
of attitude.
- Lack of aspirations and meaningful purpose.
- Anguish.
- Apathy, faithlessness, nihilism and despair.
- Religious despair with loss of faith.
- The “dark 
night of the soul.” Depressiv e disorders (Must -b.), especially when suicide is threatened with deep -seated 
despair Morbid preoccupation with death.
- Void of emotional life.
- Despair and de spondent.
- Sense of meaninglessness of life may lead to carelessness 
of attitude.
- Lack of aspirations and meaningful purpose.