What is horsetail(Equisetum arvense (L)) and it's super function?

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Part Used Medicinally of horsetail.

Horsetail Extract.CAS.NO.071011-23-9.Silica,Vegetal Silica 7%Equisetum arvense extract,Equiseti herba,CAS.NO:1343-98-2;7631-86-9.Horsetail Grass Extract,Equisetum hyemale;Shavegrass.Equisetum arvense, extract;Horsetail equisetium arvense extract photo picture image The approved modern therapeutic applications for horsetail herb are supportable based on its long history of clinical use in well established systems of traditional medicine, phytochemical investigations, and pharmacological studies. Its diuretic actions are mild, according to studies, and are attributed to horsetail's flavonoid and saponin constituents.
 The plant's actions in healing bones and strengthening connective tissue are thought to be due to silicic acid. The mineral content is significant: silica and silicic acid concentrations in the stems are usually from five to eight percent, which is probably why the hollow weeds were used to scour pots, and why horsetail is also called scouring rush.
 Pharmacopeial grade horsetail herb consists of the dried, green, sterile stems of Equisetum arvense L. in whole, cut or powdered forms. Botanical identity must be carried out by thin-layer chromatography (TLC), macroscopic and microscopic examinations, and organoleptic evaluations. It must contain no more than 3% blackish rhizome fragments and maximum 5% stems or branches from hybrids and/or from other Equisetum species. The fertile cambium may not be present.It must contain not less than 15% water-soluble extractive.
 Aerial parts.The barren stems only are used medicinally, appearing after the fruiting stems have died down, and are used in their entirety, cut off just above the root. The herb is used either fresh or dried, but is said to be most efficacious when fresh. A fluid extract is prepared from it. The ashes of the plant are also employed.
 Medicinal Action and Uses:Diuretic and astringent. Horsetail has been found beneficial in dropsy, gravel and kidney affections generally, and a drachm of the dried herb, powdered, taken three or four times a day, has proved very effectual in spitting of blood,weak diuretic,genito-urinary astringent,antihaemorrhagic,haemostatic,prophylactic causing a mild leucocytosis,restorative to damaged pulmonary tissue,possible detoxifier,Locally styptic and vulnerary.
 The ashes of the plant are considered very valuable in acidity of the stomach, dyspepsia, etc., administered in doses of 3 to 10 grains.
 Besides being useful in kidney and bladder trouble, a strong decoction acts as an emmenagogue; being cooling and astringent, it is of efficacy for haemorrhage, cystic ulceration and ulcers in the urinary passages.
 The decoction applied externally will stop the bleeding of wounds and quickly heal them, and will also reduce the swelling of eyelids.

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