Common Horsetail, Field horsetail is used as natural remedy for many health problems in natural medicine.
This is Common Horsetail, Field horsetail whose photo I took near the road where I go to my weekend cottage.
According to rxlist.com, Common Horsetail, Field horsetail is used 'for “fluid retention” (edema), kidney and bladder stones, urinary tract infections, the inability to control urination (incontinence), and general disturbances of the kidney and bladder.
It is also used for balding; tuberculosis; jaundice; hepatitis; brittle fingernails; joint diseases; gout; osteoarthritis; weak bones (osteoporosis); frostbite; weight loss; heavy menstrual periods; and uncontrolled bleeding (hemorrhage) of the nose, lung, or stomach.
Horsetail is applied directly to the skin to treat wounds and burns.'
This photo is taken in city Prijedor, in Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Photo is mine property and is shot with my micro 4/3 digital camera Nikon 1 J1.
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