Herbs - Horsetail - Ailments / Situations Where Used

The stems of this boggy plant are a good astringent and are useful for diarrhea, wounds, nosebleeds, heavy menstruation and any excessive discharges. It works wonderfully on bloody urine, prostatitis, and bedwetting.

Horsetail is an excellent diuretic and helps tone the mucous membranes in the urinary tract. It is very useful for gravel, incontinence, urethritis and for severe bladder pain. It also helps remove uric acid form the body.

Horsetail is high in minerals, particularly silica, which has been shown to protect elasticity of connective tissue and help absorb calcium, essential for hair, mails, teeth and musculo-skeletal health.

This herb helps speed repair of tissues after lung damage from tuberculosis and other wasting diseases. The silica helps stabilize scar tissue in the lungs. According to Maria Treben, "the soft hot herbs are placed between a piece of linen and applied to ulcers, adenoma, cysts or tumours."

Horsetail strengthens the heart and lungs and is a good tonic for a weak system.