The horsetail is known to everyone: it is unpretentious and grows on any soils.
But not everyone knows that the useful properties of plants are used to treat various diseases.
Young and juicy shoots are used, from which are prepared infusions, decoctions and tinctures.
What diseases can be cured with field horsetail, what medicinal properties and contraindications it possesses, you will learn from this article.
- Description of plant
- Procurement of raw materials
- Chemical composition and useful properties
- Application in traditional medicine
- Recipes
- Contraindications and limitations
Plant description
Horsetail belongs to the family of perennials.
Its Latin name Equisetum translates as "horse tail": it is composed of the words equus( horse) and saeta( bristle).
In people, the plant is also called a pine, pusher or marsh column.
In some areas, the plant was called an earthen cone, a field tree, a panicle and a cat's tail for appearance.
Field horsetail is a herbaceous plant with a creeping rhizome of brownish-black color, which starts juicy brown stems in spring, ending with a spikelet.
Summer sometimes grows branching green stems on the rhizome, which are used in medicine.
If you suddenly decide to chew ripped grass, it will emit a characteristic crunch.
Procurement of raw materials
Only shoots of horsetail, on which there are no fruits, have the medical value of and the medicinal value.
Green stems harvested in July, cutting them off at the very bottom.
When collecting medicinal raw materials, it is impossible to tolerate impurities of useless species - forest, meadow, marsh and horsetail, which are difficult to distinguish from the field one.
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Need to know that:
- in the horsetail of the forest thin branching branches,
- in the meadow type of horsetail, the branches grow horizontally and bend downwards, the
- soft toothed horsetum has a thick stalk and short sparse branches, the
- marshy species is distinguished by the presence of unbuttoned teeth between the nodesThe trunk, on which a wide light border is clearly discernible.
Drying the grass is done in the shade outdoors or indoors with good ventilation.
Finished, raw horsetail in the form of hollow and hard stems with gray-green branches, which do not have an odor, is stored for 4 years.
Chemical composition and useful properties of
Many field substances useful to humans are contained in the field of horsetail.
Among them are found organic compounds in the form of alkaloids and flavonoids, necessary for the body of groups of vitamins, saponins and phytosterols.
Inorganic substances are present in the herb in the form of compounds of silicic acid.
It is these substances in the composition of preparations made from horsetail that form the basis of its medicinal properties.
The dry grass of field horsetail can contain a record number of silicon compounds - up to 10%.
Lithium and potassium silicates dissolve well in water, and salts of silicic acid make horsetail "rough."
This property of the plant is used for cleaning and polishing metal dishes.
Preparations based on field horsetail, with practical application, have a diuretic effect, increase diuresis, which is valuable when it is necessary to remove various edema.
Diuretic effect of drugs from horsetail is more pronounced than in orthosiphon( instruction on the use of kidney tea) and diuretin - a pharmaceutical preparation.
Hemostatic and anti-inflammatory properties of field horsetail are used in the treatment of patients suffering from cardiovascular problems, since horsetail does not stimulate the production of platelets in the blood.
The horsetail grass copes with the detoxification of the body( which is written in alcohol poisoning here), poisoned with lead salts: alkali metal silicates in its composition are able to bind and remove heavy metals from the body.
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Phytosterols found in the medicinal horsetail stimulate the activity of the adrenal cortex.
Broths from horsetail are used in cosmetology, since the grass contains silicon necessary for hair growth.
Application in folk medicine
Horsetail is widely used in folk recipes as a diuretic and hemostatic.
It is often used in the treatment of atherosclerosis, rheumatic pains and gout, heart and liver diseases, tuberculosis and pulmonary hemorrhage.
With the help of preparations based on horsetail, serious skin diseases are treated in the form of lichen, furuncles and eczema.
When inflammation of the mucous membranes of the mouth and nasopharynx, decoction of horsetail is used for rinsing. During the cold, decoction of horsetail is added to medical baths.
Horsetail powder is used in veterinary practice: they are covered with ulcers and wounds.
But herbivores do not feed this plant, as it can cause unwanted intestinal disturbances.
Recipes for medical use:
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Infusion is used for diseases of the respiratory system, exhausting cough, edema, cystitis and rheumatic pain.
2 teaspoons of dried grass are infused overnight in a glass of cold water, then the infusion is heated to 60 degrees and taken 3 tablespoons three times during the day, with no time limits. - Infusion of horsetail for therapeutic baths is recommended for treatment of circulatory disorders and metabolism.
Such baths are recommended for osteomyelitis, rheumatic pains, for fractures - for the removal of swelling and inflammation.
100 g of raw materials are insisted in any amount of hot water and added to a medicinal bath. - Ointment for the treatment of skin diseases .
For its preparation you need to use one part of the chemist's liquid extract and 4 parts of zinc or salicylic ointment. - Powder from dried field horsetail is an excellent therapeutic and prophylactic for teeth.
It qualitatively cleans teeth and gums from bacterial plaque, polishes small cracks in the teeth, without damaging the enamel.
Recipes
The herb of the medicinal horsetail contains a lot of silicon.
It is often used as a supplement to preventive nutrition.
Bulbs on rhizomes and young shoots of the upper part are used for food: they contain, in particular, a lot of vitamins, starch and other useful substances.
Recipes from field horsetail herbs:
- Soup. Rinse and cut 300 grams of pestles( tips of shoots of horsetail), boil 300 grams of boiled potatoes in a saucepan, add water and bring to a boil. Ready soup season with sour cream and spices.
- For use as a garnish, washed and cut tops of pestles are rolled in breadcrumbs, salted and stewed in sour cream.
- To garnish a glass of washed bulbocks boil, cut, pour milk. Add sugar to taste and leave for 15-20 minutes.
- Bulbocks from the rhizomes are fried in a pan, in appearance and taste they resemble nuts.
Contraindications and limitations
Many healing qualities of field horsetail do not eliminate contraindications for its use in certain diseases:
- In jade - preparations based on field horsetail sometimes provoke kidney irritation.
- In pregnancy and lactation - horsetail is categorically contraindicated by .
- In the presence of chronic diseases - independent treatment can provoke unexpected side effects, the rationale for use is determined only by the attending physician.
- Sometimes, decoctions of horsetail are not recommended in the presence of renal or heart failure.
So, field horsetail is often used in medical and culinary fields.
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