with the above, steep 1 teaspoonful in 1 cup of boiling water for 45 min., in covered container. Cool, take a mouthful four times a day. Externally: As a compress or sponge bath for old injuries, putrid wounds, gangrenous ulcers or external bleeding. Simmer covered for ½ hr., cool and administer; make fresh daily. Homoeopathic Clinical: Tincture of fresh plant chopped and pounded to a pulp— Cystitis, Dropsy, Enuresis, General paralysis, Gleet, Gonorrhoea, Gravel, Haematuria, Urine( retention of). Russian Experience: Distinction of Hvosh Polevoy( Horsetail) is given medical recognition; many others are similar, but not valued as the same. Folk Medicine: Use Horsetail as a tea, Nastoika( with vodka), and as a powder, in many cases. Known as a Diuretic in heart conditions due to dropsy( excess of water) and deficiency of blood circulation. Is of use in kidney stones, but should not be used when the kidneys are inflamed. When bleeding from the stomach or intestinal tract, Horsetail is your medicine; also useful in excessive female bleeding. Folk Medicine has also found the properties valuable for blood purifying and liver conditions. Experimentally, an important agent to cleanse the system of lead poisoning and as a diuretic( Medical Literature, Moscow, 1962).
HORSETAIL Equisetum arvense, L.( Bello-Russ. Academy of Science, Minsk, 1966)
Clinically: In use as an extract, tincture, tablets and powder. Externally: A powder for bleeding wounds and ulcers; also for veterinary use of the same conditions.
HOUND’ S-TONGUE Cynoglossum, L.( N. O.: Boraginaceae)
Common Names: Gypsy Flower, Dog’ s Tongue. Features: Hound’ s-tongue grows on the roadsides and waste places in both Europe and America. A biennial herb of medium size, 2 – 3 ft. high. The leaves are tongue-shaped, hoary with soft down on both sides. Flowers are blue to lavender, funnel form on terminal panicles, growing in clusters. The fruit, like Burdock, when dry sticks to livestock and hunting dogs. The leaves are bitter, and the root when fresh has an unpleasant heavy odour, diminishing when dry. It can be used in both fresh and dry stages, if when gathered it is properly dried and stored. Internally should be used by persons of professional experience. Medicinal Parts: The leaves and root. Solvent: Water.