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Horsetail (Latin Equisetum arvense) is a medicinal plant that grows wild in Poland. The field horsetail can be found in wet meadows, fields, meadows, potato fields, roadside roads, slopes, and railway embankments. For this reason, it is treated as a nuisance weed, while the field horsetail is a plant that, thanks to its healing properties, has been used in medicine.

Horsetail(Latin Equisetum arvense) is a plant whosehealing propertieshave long been used in natural medicine. However, few people know about it, because this miniature herringbone-like plant is commonly considered a weed. The field horsetail is known as herringbone, field fir, ponytail, silica cube, buckle, basket, spangle, fir, tassel.

Field horsetail for urinary tract diseases

Field box thanks to the presence of flavonoids increases the volume of urine excreted and removes excess urate, therefore decoctions from this plant are used as a weak diuretic in mild diseases of the urinary tract.

It also works gently to relax the bile and urinary tract, and also seals the walls of blood vessels. In addition, it is used in urolithiasis, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and gout.

Horsetail - sedative and anticonvulsant properties

Horsetail extract has a potentialsedative and anticonvulsant effect . This is confirmed by scientific research carried out on rats.

They used extract obtained from the herb horsetail with the use of 50%. of an aqueous ethanol solution, which was administered orally to rodents in doses of 50, 100, 200 and 400 mg / kg b.w.

It turned out that as the doses of water-ethanol extract of horsetail were increased, it was found that the severity of appearing seizures and the frequency of their occurrence were reduced, as well as prolonged sleep and increased the number of falls from the rotating drum.

Scientists attribute the sedative and anticonvulsant effect to the relatively large amount contained in this extract to the compound isoquertitine flavonoid.

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Horsetail tea recipe

Pour two teaspoons of dried horsetail herb in a cup with boiling water andInfuse for 15 minutes, covered, then drain. Drink three times a day.

Field horsetail for heavy periods

Horsetail decoctions can be used as an auxiliary in the case of heavy periods. Modern phytotherapy also recommends their use in bleeding from haemorrhoids, colon ulcers and gastric and duodenal ulcers, and also in bleeding from the nose and lungs.

Field horsetail for sweating feet

If you suffer from excessive sweating of the feet, try the horsetail. Thanks to it, excess sweat, instead of getting to the surface of the skin, will be excreted with the urine, so a side effect of the therapy may be more frequent visits to the toilet.

Important

Field horsetail contains anti-vitamin B1, therefore in the case of long-term administration of extracts from this plant, take 1 vitamin B1 tablet 1-2 times a day.

Field horsetail for burns and broken capillaries

Field box can be used in skin damage, burns, skin inflammations in the form ofcompresses . In addition, it is used in some skin diseases caused by the accumulation of harmful metabolic products in the blood, including in psoriasis.

Horsetail can also be reached by people struggling with couperose skin. It will strengthen the blood vessels and reduce the risk of their breaking. Externally, the decoctions are used for rinsing in inflammatory conditions of the oral cavity.

Field horsetail - for beautiful and strong hair

Thanks to the field silicon in the horsetail, the hair is shiny and strong, the nails do not split, and the aging process of the skin is inhibited.

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Horsetail - when to collect horsetail?

In early spring, short brown-colored spore shoots grow from numerous rhizomes deep in the ground, topped with cone-like spikelets.

Green barren shoots, which grow up to 40 cm in height, appear only in the middle of spring. These shoots resemble a herringbone (hence one of the names).

These shoots are the herbal raw material. They contain silica (silicic acid) and flavonoids, mineral s alts, organic acids and saponins.

Horsetail shoots are collected from mid-July to the end of August, because then they contain the most silica. They are dried in an airy, shaded room intemperature not higher than 40 degrees Celsius.

Selection of preparations containing horsetail

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