Horse horsetail 45 UAH/100g, Dnipropetrovsk region.

Field horsetail (Equisetum arvense)
In early spring, a fruit-bearing, spore-bearing, brownish stem with a fruit "shoots" from the deep-lying bushy root, and only then green panicles, up to 40 cm high, similar to a small Christmas tree, appear. Horsetail can be found on arable land, on railway embankments, on hillsides. Horsetail growing on clay soils is the most healing. It contains, depending on the location, from 3 to 16% of silicic acid, which causes a special healing effect. It goes without saying that it is undesirable to collect horsetail on fields with chemical fertilizers. Horsetail with thin branches - some even call it "thin" horsetail - grows mainly in the forest and along the edges. He
also healthy.
People have known the healing properties of this plant since ancient times, first of all, its hemostatic power and effectiveness in the treatment of kidney and bladder diseases. And yet, over the years, they began to forget about him. The only "irreplaceable and invaluable" plant that helps with bleeding and bloody vomiting, diseases of the kidneys and bladder, with
stones and sand. "For old diseases - for rotting wounds, even for tumors with suspicion of cancer and osteomyelitis - horsetail provides invaluable services.
He washes away, dissolves, as well as burns, everything harmful. Sometimes warm, moist grass is wrapped in a cloth and applied to the sore spot.
The Swiss pastor Künzle says that all people, starting from a certain age, should drink a cup of horsetail tea every day. All rheumatic, gouty and nervous pains will disappear, everyone will be healthy at the end of their days.
Severe bleeding and vomiting of blood is treated by this herb, if you drink tea from it, it helps quickly, almost instantly.
There is nothing better than cold pains in the bladder and spasmodic pains
means such as boiled horsetail, with the steam of which, wrapped in a terry bathrobe, warm the area of the bladder for 10 minutes. If this is done several times, the disease will pass. Elderly people who suddenly stop urinating and writhe in pain, since the urine either does not come out at all, or comes out in drops, will get rid of their pain by doing these procedures, without resorting to the help of doctors with their catheterization.
With sand in the kidneys and kidney and bladder stones, you need to do hot
sitz baths with horsetail, while drinking warm horsetail tea in sips, to retain urine so that it can then be released under pressure. If you do this, the stones most often come out.
In cases where other means often do not help, horsetail helped, as,
for example, when water accumulates in the pericardium, in the pleura, or in case of kidney complications after scarlet fever and other severe infectious diseases with urinary tract disorders. This is generally an excellent remedy for the treatment of the kidneys and urinary system.
With suppuration and inflammation of the renal pelvis (pyelitis), a single sitz bath with horsetail works wonders. For this, they take - for external use - one tall plant with a stem as thick as a finger from a swampy meadow or pasture, which will instantly help if you have inflammation or suppuration in the renal pelvis.
To prepare tea, you need to use only horsetail collected in fields, field paths and along the edges of forests.
Sitz baths externally affect blood circulation in the kidneys, blood pressure is regulated, visual impairment gradually passes.(//tractor-service.com)
On the one hand, horsetail is a hemostatic agent. Secondly, and to an even greater extent, it is a kidney medicine. After taking horsetail tea, urine of a dark color and in large quantities easily comes out.
For dropsy, this is a fast remedy (especially for oncological diseases). If no other diuretic is already effective, all other herbal teas should be put aside and taken for 4-5 days (and in very stubborn cases - for 6 days) 5-6 cups of horsetail tea, but only in sips, stretched out for the whole day. Urine and water drain in most cases.
With itchy skin rashes, even if they fester, are scabs or scabs, washing and poultices with horsetail decoction help. Washing with horsetail decoction or sitting baths with it is very beneficial for purulent inflammation of the nail bed, open wounds on the legs, osteomyelitis, erosive wounds, malignant tumors, spurs, fistulas, gray beard, other types of eczema and lupus (skin tuberculosis). It is possible to wrap warm herbal tea (sweet horsetail tea) in a cloth and place it on the sore spot.
If hemorrhoids and hemorrhoidal bumps cause pain, you can put a gruel of fresh grass on them. It is done like this: fresh horsetail is washed well, rubbed on a board until it becomes a gruel.
With prolonged nosebleeds, a cloth is soaked in a cooled decoction of horsetail and placed on the nose. As a hemostatic agent, it helps with pulmonary, uterine, hemorrhoidal, and gastric bleeding. Here, of course, more concentrated teas are needed. Usually, 1 tsp is taken for 1 cup (1/4 l). herbs (with the top), and in case of bleeding, take 2-3 teaspoons per cup. herbs with a top.
Horsetail mixed with veronica is a good remedy for the prevention of sclerosis and memory loss — it cleans the blood. This remedy can be considered the best from cancer.
Horsetail tincture is an excellent remedy for leg sweating. This tincture is rubbed into well-washed and dried feet. In addition, it is necessary to drink one cup of horsetail tea every day on an empty stomach half an hour before meals. Horsetail baths also work well against sweating of the legs. With scabs on the head, the head is washed daily with horsetail decoction, then massaged with good olive oil. The scabs will disappear very soon.
A mixture of horsetail andSt. John's wort, if it is brewed and drunk during the day for 1-2 cups (dinner without liquids), is a good remedy for nocturnal urinary incontinence.
It can be recommended as a rinse for inflammation of the tonsils, mucous in the oral cavity, rotten teeth, bleeding gums or their inflammation, fistulas and polyps on the palate and throat.
Women with white hair can use ego for sitz baths.
It should not be forgotten that horsetail is one of the best means for
treatment of lungs — with chronic bronchitis, with pulmonary tuberculosis. If you drink such tea regularly, thanks to the body's production of silicic acid, lung tuberculosis will be cured, and the general weakness accompanying lung disease will disappear.
New research results indicate that, according to the data of phytobiologist Richard Villefort, it can be assumed that due to long-term consumption of horsetail tea, malignant tumors slow down their growth and eventually disintegrate.
Even polyps in the genitals or rectum, as well as inflammation of the mucous bag (bursitis) can be treated in a similar way.
To increase the effect in both cases, warm wraps with horsetail and sitting baths with horsetail are made. These warm wraps (poultices) also help with stomach spasms, colic in the liver and gall bladder, as well as painful congestion that has a negative impact on the heart.
In case of severe kidney disorders, sitz baths should be taken withfresh horsetail. For one bath, you need to take a five-liter bucket of grass or two handfuls of dry grass.
When taking a sitz bath, the area of the kidneys should be in water - the duration of the bath is 20 minutes! Do not wipe yourself, but while wet, wrapped in a terry dressing gown, warm up in bed for an hour, only then put on dry nightclothes. The same bath, heated, can be used two more times.