Editing Chestnut (section)

===Other uses===
Fabric can be starched with chestnut [[flour|meal]].<ref name=botanical/> Linen cloth can be whitened with chestnut meal.<ref name=botanical/> The leaves and the skins (husk and pellicle) of the fruits provide a hair shampoo.<ref name=valnet/><ref name=chiej>MacDonald, R. Chiej. ''Encyclopaedia of Medicinal Plants''. 1984. {{ISBN|0-356-10541-5}}. Cited in ''Plants for a Future''.</ref>

Hydrolysable chestnut tannins can be used for partial phenol substitution in [[Phenol formaldehyde resin|phenolic resin]] adhesives production<ref name=Spina >{{cite journal|doi=10.1080/01694243.2012.697673|volume=27|issue=18–19|title=Phenolic resin adhesives based on chestnut (Castanea sativa) hydrolysable tannins|year=2013|journal=Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology|pages=2103–2111|last1=Spina|first1=S.|s2cid=96086981}}</ref> and also for direct use as resin.<ref name="Peña">Peña, C.; De La Caba, K.; Retegi, A.; Ocando, C.;  Labidi J. and J. M. Echeverria. [http://www.sc.ehu.es/iawcacik/Ikerkuntza/publicaciones/2009JThermAnalCal.pdf "Mimosa and chestnut tannin extracts reacted with hexamine in solution".] Mondragon. ''Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry'', Volume 96, issue 2 (May 2009), pp. 515–521.</ref>

Chestnut buds have been listed as one of the 38 substances used to prepare [[Bach flower remedies]],<ref name="Vohra2004">{{cite book|author=Vohra, D. S. |title=Bach Flower Remedies: A Comprehensive Study|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=icG8onA0ys8C&pg=PR3|access-date=2 September 2013|date=1 June 2004|publisher=B. Jain Publishers|isbn=978-81-7021-271-3|page=3}}</ref> a kind of [[alternative medicine]] promoted for its effect on health. However, according to [[Cancer Research UK]], "there is no scientific evidence to prove that flower remedies can control, cure or prevent any type of disease, including cancer".<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/cancer-help/about-cancer/treatment/complementary-alternative/therapies/flower-remedies
|title=Flower remedies
|publisher=[[Cancer Research UK]]
|date=September 2013
}}</ref>