How to make horsetail

Horsetail is a perennial plant of the family howevah. In folk medicine uses the aboveground part of medicinal plants in the form of decoctions, infusions and tinctures for the treatment of various diseases associated with heart failure, to improve water-salt metabolism, with external and internal bleeding, malignant tumors, kidney disease.

You will need

• - dry raw material is horsetail;
• thermos;
• - boiling water;
• - tablespoon;
• - a sieve or gauze;
• - rubbing alcohol;
• - capacity of dark glass.

Instruction

1. Use horsetail as a diuretic, in cardiac and renal edema, for the treatment and prevention of colds and viral infections, for the prevention and treatment of stones and sand in kidneys. Use the infusion or decoction of horsetail with food poisoning, poisoning by salts of heavy metals, in alcoholic or narcotic intoxication.
2. For the treatment of kidney stones prepare an infusion of horsetail. To do this, take 1 tablespoon chopped dry raw materials, pour half a liter of boiling water, infuse 1 hour, strain, wring, take 2 tablespoons 3 times a day, regardless of meals. Spend a course of treatment for three months.
3. For the treatment of tonsillitis, adenoids, chronic rhinitis, prepare an infusion of horsetail. To do this, place 3 tablespoons of dry raw material into a thermos, pour 1 liter of boiling water, infuse 5 hours, filter, press, gargle with a warm solution rinse throat or nose. The treatment can be lengthy.
4. For the treatment of oncological diseases, tuberculosis, internal bleeding, pleurisy, dysentery, disorders of metabolism, prepare a decoction of horsetail. To do this, place 2 tablespoons of dry raw material in a container, pour boiling water in 750 ml, cook on a steam bath for 30 minutes, strain, wring, bring the broth to the original volume. Take 3 tablespoons 4 times a day 1 hour after meals. Continue treatment for 2-3 months.
5. To prepare a tincture of horsetail, place 1kg of the dry crushed raw materials into a container made of dark glass, pour one liter of rubbing alcohol, put in dark cool place for 30 days. After this time strain the infusion, pour into a sterile bottle made of dark glass and store in the fridge. Take 20 drops diluted in 100 ml of water, 4 times a day for 2 months. A tincture you can take for all diseases which can be treated by infusion and decoction.