Healing properties of horsetail

Horsetail - a fairly common plant, especially in our latitudes. It grows almost everywhere: both in the tropics and in the subarctic. For a farmer in the field it is a weed, but for traditional medicine, like many other, at first glance, inconspicuous herbs - healing gift of nature.

Close relatives of field horsetail, meadow and forest, are poisonous. Therefore, you should not collect a plant without a good understanding of its origin. It's better to buy it already prepared raw materials in the pharmacy.

What properties of horsetail made it a medicine? This is a plant relieves inflammation and stops bleeding, removes toxins and even heavy metals from the body. Also known diuretic and restorative the effect of taking infusions and decoctions of this horsetail. There are proteins and organic acids, tannins and vitamin C, as well as micro and macroelements such as iron, calcium, magnesium, zinc, etc.

It treats the skin from purulent boils, eczema and lichen. There is a whole list of diseases for which horsetail can be useful. This bronchitis and dysentery, tuberculosis and jaundice, rheumatism, gout, chronic cough and much more.

But, like any synthetic medical product, herbs also have their own strict dosages and contraindications. Horsetail, for example, should not be used pregnant women and people with kidney problems.

In addition to being used as a herbal medicine, horsetail is also used for cosmetic purposes as a base for lotions. A in cooking its young juicy shoots are useful, they are pre-fried and stuffed into pancakes.