Field Horsetail - Discover The Healing Properties Of The Herb (Part 1)

The article describes the healing qualities of field horsetail and outlines guidelines on how to dry the herb for medical use. In addition, it deals with simple guidelines on how to use field horsetail for the treatment of spontaneous urination, enuresis in children, benign prostate enlargement, inflamed urinary bladder, inflammation of urethra and other health problems.

Field horsetail is a perennial with a stem growing to a height of 10-50 centimeters. The herb can be found growing in field, meadow, forest and brushwood. The plant mainly grows in acid soil. You should collect green, barren sprouts during summer from June till August. Simply cut the plant 5-10 centimeters above ground. You should dry the herb at a room temperature or in a well-ventilated drying camera a temperature between 40 and 50 degrees Celsius. However, you must be careful not to confuse the herb with other horsetails, especially the poisonous ones, such as, marsh horsetail.

1. Field horsetail tops are said to contain saponins, flavonoids, ascorbic acid, carotene, organic acids, nicotine, tannins, bitter substances, phenyl carbolic acid, mineral substances (especially, silicic acid and silicates), micro elements (molybdenum and selenium) and other biologically active substances.
2. Field horsetail increases diuresis, stops bleeding, fights inflammation and reduces blood pressure. The herb facilitates the excretion of heavy metals out of your organism. It absorbs toxins, radionuclides and free radicals. In addition, it has an impact on the functional processes, as well as, processes of connective tissues and mucosal metabolism.
3. Remedies made of field horsetail are used to deal with spontaneous urination, enuresis (bed-wetting) in children, inflammation of pelvis of the kidney, benign prostate enlargement, inflamed urinary bladder and inflammation of urethra.
4. You can use field horsetail tops to make infusion, decoction, liquid extract and various compound remedies. In order to make decoction or infusion, you should infuse 1-4 grams of the herbs with a glass of water. Drink the whole remedy within a day in three equal portions. However, you can make more concentrated remedy by infusing 1-4 tablespoons of the herb with a glass of water. In this case, you should drink one fourth or half of a glass of the remedy 2-3 times a day an hour before meal. Infuse the herb with ethanol at 25 percent concentration (proportion 1:1) and use 1-4 millilitres of the liquid extract. If you mix the herb with ethanol at 45 percent concentration (proportion 1:5), you are going to get the tincture. You should use 2-6 millilitres of the tincture 3 times a day.

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