HORSETAIL Herb Cut

HORSETAIL STEM, Botanical name: Equisetum arvense is well known Whole Detox Tea for Herbal Healing in Natural medicine, Holistic medicine and Holistic therapy. Herb works to treat a condition or illness. Whole herbs contain many ingredients, and they work together to produce a beneficial effect.

Botanical name:  Equisetum arvense

Common Names:    Bottlebrush, shave grass, corncob plant, scouring rush, field horsetail, pewterwort, paddock-pipes, Dutch rushes, snake pipes, small scouring rush.

Habitat:     Horsetail is native to both North America and Europe. It is one of only a few Equisetum survivors from the dinosaur era. In parts of Northern America, Canada and Europe it is often considered a rather bothersome weed because of its prolific tuber system.

Plant Description:    Horsetail is a perennial plant of the Equisetaceae or the horsetail plant family.
It is a unique plant because it has two very different stems. In the early spring, it grows a stem that looks somewhat like asparagus. Later in the Summer, the stem appears as thin, green and somewhat feathery.
General - perennial, spreads extensively by dark-felted rhizomes with tubers; stems hollow, usually erect, die back each year. 2 markedly different types; fertile stems unbranched, appear in early spring, usually thick and succulent, brownish to whitish, 10 - 30 cm tall; sterile stems bottlebrush-like (many whorls of slender branches), appear as fertile stalks wither 1-several in clusters, 10 - 50 cm tall; slender, green, 10 - 12 ridged, minutely-roughened; branches simple, first branch segment longer than adjacent stem sheath.
Leaves - reduced to small scales, usually fused into sheaths around stems and branches; sheaths of fertile stems have 8 - 12 large, pointed teeth; sheaths of sterile stems green, with 10 - 12 brownish or blackish teeth.
Spore Clusters - in long-stalked, blunt-tipped cones at tip of fertile stems

Plant Part/s Used Traditionally:    The above ground parts of the green Summer shoots are collected and used fresh. The lower dark portion of the stem should be removed before the plant is dried and all discolored parts of the dried herb discarded before it is stored for later use.

Plant Part/s We are Selling in this Listing:  WHOLE AERIAL PART Cut
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Packaging:  Paper envelope PAP 22 / BS EN 26590-1 for nutritional purposes. Thus, the herbs are kept in the best possible way - no contact with light and moisture, with the ability to breathe through the paper.

Country of Origin:  BULGARIA

WARNING:  Just because herbs are 'natural', it does not mean that they are safe for everyone to use.
We cannot accept responsibility for any adverse effects which arise from self-medication.
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