Everybody who has researched wild edible plants or herbal medicine has heard of the plant horsetail. Since being recommended by the Roman physician Galen, several cultures have employed horsetail as a folk remedy for kidney and bladder troubles, arthritis, bleeding ulcers, and tuberculosis. The Chinese use it to cool fevers and as a remedy for eye inflammations such as conjunctivitis and corneal disorders, dysentery, flu, swellings and haemorrhoids.
I bet you have never heard of Giant horsetail which grows upto 12 feet high and is even more powerful than standard horsetail. Studies show it has potential as a diabetics remedy and to repair nervous system damage.
Sources.
http://www.herbwisdom.com/herb-horsetail.html
http://www2.fiu.edu/~chusb001/GiantEquisetum/Intro_giant.html
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Hell if they get loose in your rockery, though! They look rather prehistoric – like Gunnera or Ginkgo and, one might say, terribly un-English! Still, with climate change it’ll probably soon be just right for ‘em.
Very into range of herbs. Bought two mints last summer – Swiss and Moroccan. In North Wales its predictable that the former sailed through our winter whilst the latter very nearly died and is only now maybe two centimetres tall.
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