Arvense Equisetum or Horsetail

Arvense Equisetum or Horsetail

Horsetail is rich in silicon. Thanks to its cleansing properties helps to eliminate toxins, bacteria and fungi, thus preventing the appearance of pimples and eczema.

What is it horsetail

Thanks to its regenerating, astringent and diuretic properties, horsetail has numerous applications in the medical and aesthetic field. Some of its most common uses are the treatment of fluid retention and hair loss, which dedicated a specific section.

properties

We review the main properties of horsetail or Equisetum arvense:

Improves hair health: its silicon content also benefits the hair, enhancing its growth and improve its texture. It also prevents gray hair, baldness or dandruff.

Regenerating and healing: is a powerful cell regenerator and helps to improve wound healing and skin tags.

Controls bleeding: thanks to its astringent properties, horsetail can control or even cure bleeding. We recommend it in case of bleeding wounds, nosebleeds, skin ulcers or very heavy periods.

Improves flexibility of tendons, very useful for people who perform strenuous exercise regularly or suffering from sore tendons.

Remineralizing: its high and varied mineral content makes this plant a powerful remineralizing, ideal to nourish our bones and prevent its weakening, as in cases of osteoporosis or cavities, or to improve healing of bone injuries. It also helps us in times of fatigue, exhaustion, fatigue, convalescence, anemia, among others.

Improves skin condition and nails: its high silicon content, which helps form collagen, deeply nourishes the skin and nails, and thanks to its cleansing properties allows us to keep them clean of toxins and bacteria and fungi. Thus, horsetail helps prevent the appearance of pimples, eczema and wrinkles, and may even fade stretch marks.

Diuretics: is possibly best known for helping to eliminate excess fluids in our body, thanks to its content in potassium, flavonoids and sapónidos medicinal plant. You can increase up to 30% the amount of urine. Therefore it is recommended to fluid retention, edema, reumatitis, gout, kidney stones, urinary infections, among others.

Thinning: precisely because of its diuretic property, this plant helps us to lose weight, but we must consider that we will not eliminate excess fluid if not fat.

Purifying: its ability to remove liquid is added to eliminate toxins, so this plant, combined with others such as milk thistle, nettle, dandelion or burdock, allow us to purify our body of toxic elements . We can make a cure purifying a couple of times a year, in autumn and spring, taking daily infusions of these plants.

Aesthetics

Acne: Prepare an infusion of horsetail, wait for it to cool and apply with a cotton after washing your face at night. Infusion avoid contact with eyes.

Slimming: Take infusions of horsetail is useful for weight loss because it helps remove excess fluid from the body while recovering body balance because it also removes toxins.

Wrinkles: Take a cup of horsetail tea a day to combat them.

Hair loss: Horsetail is a very popular remedy for treating hair loss. Here's how to use it to strengthen hair and stop the fall.

Open ends of hair: To strengthen and restructure the hair is recommended to use shampoo to wash horsetail head.

Canas: Take a cup of tea a day to prevent them from leaving.

How do we take?

The most common way to take it is in tea, boiling the plant for five minutes and letting it sit another five. If we want to treat a particular ailment recommend taking three cups a day for a month and a half later to rest for a few weeks. The treatment can be repeated throughout the year.

Where do we get it?

We can buy in health food, diet or in some supermarkets, because it is a well known plant. We can get to make tea or extract or tablets, depending on the intensity of treatment we want to do either of our comfort. For the latter cases we recommend consulting with a therapist or doctor.