This is one of the most primitive plants, throughout the world since the time of the dinosaurs and attained an enormous size. Today is one of the most consumed herbs in the world, has many therapeutic properties and asthetic , but is mainly known for their regenerative properties of the cell tissues, and its effects depurative and great effects beauty and skin health.

horse's tail

This is a plant without flowers and has two types of stems : a fertile and is measured between 10 to 20 centimeters tall. Appears at the beginning of spring and branches but not ending in a spike of spores beige. The other stalks are sterile, which have various uses in herbal medicine. They measure between 20 to almost 80 centimeters, are green and hollow, with a kind of knot scales where the leaves sprout.

This plant can be found mainly in moist places of Asia, Europe, Africa and North America, especially in clay soils, usually on the banks of rivers and streams or water-logged fields or around the pasture.

Uses their stems

Sterile stems of this plant are harvested during the summer, and left to dry in the shade, hanging in bunches, discarding discolored parts. Once dried, they are often put in bags for preservation. If you take one of these bags and the smell, you will notice that it has a flavor similar to chamomile. It is with these bags of dry stalks, well crushed that are made ready for all sorts of health and beauty , from herbal teas, fresh juice, decoctions, essences, syrups, powders and fluid extracts, tinctures and capsules to ointments, creams, lotions, and sprays water to wash.

Properties of the Cola de Caballo

Is rich in minerals such as silicon and potassium. It also has very active healthy as Sapone, flavonoids and alkaloids, including nicotine, many of which have tested both preventive and curative effects.

Its properties and uses in medicine:

: helps eliminate fluids. •
Skin: helps to combat significant herpes, fungus, eczema and herpes among others. (see meaning in the beauty) Bones: remineraliza the skeletal system
• Wound healing: helping heal wounds.
regenerative cell
• • Tendons: Galen, one of the fathers of old medicine, boiled employed to cure the sore tendons. •
Losing weight helps to lose weight because it eliminates the body fluids and are also eliminate excess toxins.
• genitourinary problems is of great help in cases of kidney stones, urinary tract infections, inflammation of the bladder or prostate, cystitis and urethritis.
• Bleeding: very useful for controlling bleeding and healing because of its ability astringent, shrinks tissue because of its tannin content, making it well suited for quickly heal and close wounds bleeding, to curb and control the nasal bleeding and heal skin ulcers. • Diarrhea
is very useful in diarrhea.
• Inflammations: desinflamante is good.
• Enuresis. • Athletes
: acting positively on the flexibility of tendons and vessel walls. The equiseto component of this plant is a good restorative for athletes or people who submit their ligaments to hard evidence such as tennis players, cyclists, dancers, etc..
• It is very useful to help grade hormonal imbalances.

in aesthetics:

• Strengthens nails significantly: for its high content of equiseto.
• Skin: if something is consented by this plant is its great benefits to the skin . Its high silica content helps maintain and restore the health of connective tissue that forms the skin. On the other hand, detoxifies and purifies the urinary tract and blood, and this cleaning helps prevent the accumulation of toxins and the proliferation of bacteria that damage the skin and generate a series of ailments that have been mentioned above in the health skin. Moreover, this effect depurative prevents wrinkles, fades stretch and regenerate damaged tissue by changes in weight.
• Cellulite : for the above (the effect depurative), herb helps prevent and combat cellulite, as it helps remove toxins, excess fat and waste material accumulated. •
rejuvenates, nourishes and invigorates the skin and hair. • Avoid
gray : In addition to increased hair growth and improve their appearance so as not to gray due to its rich content of silica, an essential component of connective tissue.

Cautions

As well as providing great benefits for health and beauty, we must also emphasize the importance of balance in the consumption of this herb. Experts advise avoiding consumption for more than six weeks, and is to be used for medicinal purposes, should be guided by a professional process, as the plant can irritate the digestive tract.

Pregnant and lactating women should avoid its consumption.

Also need to prevent its use in cases of:
irritated gastric mucosa
have ingested too much alcohol or irritants such as spicy
When consumed drugs such as aspirin or an anti-inflammatory.