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Many consider this medicinal herb a weed, but once you find out what healing properties it hides, you will immediately change your mind. You can find it in every field, meadow and even in your own garden. We are talking about horsetail.
Especially people in their 40s should have this plant properly dried and regularly enjoy tea made from this magical herb. In the past horsetail was used not only for medicinal purposes, but also for washing dishes (thanks to the firm structure of the leaves) and, in dried form, as a polish for wooden items. The simplest way to enjoy it and do something for your health after 40 is to make a simple tea from it.
Horsetail can also be consumed fresh or dried. It is used in the form of infusions, tinctures, compresses and the aforementioned tea.
This plant is rich in minerals, especially a high content of silica, so the effect is stimulating, but it also contains flavonoids which have antioxidant and diuretic effects. It contains vitamin C, essential oil, potassium.
As age progresses, our body faces smaller and larger problems, and the easiest way to help it is to reach for the right natural remedies. Horsetail will help you after 40 to better distribute and allocate energy, which the body no longer has as much of as in your 20s. It will also help you overcome the first more significant health complications related to age.
Field horsetail is an excellent source of vitamins and regular use in the form of tea helps our body function properly even after 40:
- strengthens bone tissue,
- helps protect bone health,
- supports cartilage regeneration,
- helps the kidneys,
- helps remove uric acid,
- protects the liver from toxins,
- prevents increases in cholesterol levels,
- calcium is more easily utilized in the body,
- has a good effect on blood circulation,
- contributes to the prevention of cardiovascular diseases.
- With which problems should you drink such tea?
- rheumatism,
- diarrhea,
- skin problems,
- oral ulcers,
- menstrual disorders and problems associated with menopause,
- urinary tract infections,
- physical exhaustion,
- incontinence,
- in cases of sudden weight loss and loss of energy,
- it treats stomach ulcers, stomach cramps,
- prevention of atherosclerosis.
- Horsetail also helps with:
- hardening of the arteries,
- cleansing the vascular system,
- stopping nosebleeds and bleeding from wounds,
- hemorrhoids,
- in the treatment of tuberculosis,
- throat inflammation,
- blood cleansing,
- joint pain,
- gout.
How to prepare the tea?
Boil two tablespoons of dried horsetail for 30 minutes in half a liter of water. Drink 2–3 times a day, as often as possible. A horsetail bath is also suitable, which you prepare by pouring 100 grams of horsetail into a liter of cold water and letting it steep for 12 hours.
Then pour it into the bath and bathe for 20 minutes so that the water reaches above your kidneys.
After the bath do not dry yourself, but wrap yourself in a blanket and warm up for a few minutes wrapped under the duvet. You prepare a horsetail decoction from two tablespoons of horsetail per half liter of water, which you simmer for about 15 minutes.
Horsetail treatment for those over 40
Put a teaspoon of the dried plant into a cup of hot water, let it steep for 3 minutes, then filter and let it cool for a moment. It is recommended to drink one cup of tea every day for 3 weeks and repeat the treatment every four months.
Beware of a poisonous relative!
When harvesting field horsetail you must be careful not to confuse it with marsh horsetail, which is poisonous. The latter grows mainly in marshes and has very stiff, coarser, simply branched shorter stems with pronounced wrinkled ribs. The medicinal field horsetail, on the other hand, has a thinner green stem that is more noticeably branched.
