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 Probably many of us paid attention to the little grassy Christmas tree growing on a meadow or field. So, here, in the old days, almost all women in Russia knew that horsetail is not only pleasing to the eye, but also heals as well as useful for preserving youth and beauty skin.
Horsetail -
Horsetail, Equisetum arvense
- Herbaceous perennial plant of the family Spore horsetail. The plant creeping, long, dark brown rhizome up to 7 meters in length, with black spherical nodules.
Early spring appears branched juicy white-pink to stem 25-30cm in height, who dies after ripening spore-bearing spikelets in May. Spores spherical, green. And in the early summer grow gnarled green hard, rough to the touch stem 35-55sm tall, reminiscent of the Christmas tree. This barren vegetative shoot. The leaves on the shoot underdeveloped and grow together on the stem in the tubular sheath.
Horsetail grows almost the entire territory of Russia, except for the Far North. It can be found in meadows, fields, among the crops along the banks of rivers and lakes, railway embankments in clay and sand pits, on vacant lots. Sometimes it forms a whole thicket.
 The medicinal and cosmetic purposes is used horsetail grass, that is branched vegetative shoots.
For therapeutic purposes,
horsetail used since ancient times.
- Herb Horsetail contains vitamin C, carotene, silicon, aconitic acid, oxalic acid, malic acid, bitterness, tannins, saponins, flavonoids, fatty oil, traces of alkaloids.
- Horsetail has anti-inflammatory, disinfectant, hemostatic, wound healing, tonic, diuretic, astringent properties.
- Preparations of horsetail excrete harmful cholesterol, heavy metals, toxins and wastes.
- Strengthens the walls of blood vessels.
- Modern folk medicine uses the herb horsetail in the treatment of gallstone and kidney diseases, rheumatism, gout, hypertension, atherosclerosis, eye diseases, neoplasms of the stomach and intestines, chronic ulcers, with different internal and external bleeding and for the healing of poorly healing wounds.
- In the form of douching with belyah.
Horsetail is widely used
in modern cosmetics
. Due to the content of organic compounds in the grass of silicic acid and its salts, preparations of horsetail promotes rapid cell renewal of the skin and its rejuvenation. In addition broths and masks from horsetail improves oxygen and mineral metabolism, heal minor wounds and smooth fine lines.
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Mask of horsetail
2 tbsp. tablespoons herb horsetail pour ½ cup of boiling water. Infuse for about 1 hour. Strain, add as many milled on a coffee grinder oatmeal flakes, to get a creamy mass. Apply it on the face, neck and neck for 20 minutes. Wash with water at room temperature.
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Mask for skin rejuvenation
Prepare the broth in 1 recipe, add 1 teaspoon honey and 1 tbsp. a spoonful of fresh carrot juice. Soak solution cheesecloth, folded in several layers and apply on face for 15 minutes. Wash off with a swab dipped in weak tea leaves of green tea.
- Fat porous skin to wipe a decoction of horsetail 2-3 times a day, if possible, more often. After wiping do not wash for 30-40 minutes. The course of treatment for two or three weeks.
- Preparations of horsetail are used for disposal
cellulite
At home, for it is preparing a decoction is used for wraps. 4 tbsp. spoons of horsetail pour 1 liter of boiled water, 1 hour, drain.
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Bath with sweating
1 tbsp. spoonful of horsetail grass to brew 2 cups boiling water, leave for 40 minutes, strain, pour into the tub with a temperature of 37C. While taking a bath for 10-15 minutes. After the bath, do not rinse and do not wipe. Writing moisture to dry naturally.
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To stimulate hair growth and get rid of dandruff
2 tbsp. tablespoons herb horsetail make 2 cups of boiled water, 1 hour, drain. After shampooing and rinsing, rinse hair decoction. For greater effect, rub into the roots of the hair and keep the hair under the cap cellophane 20 minutes. Then wring out the hair, but do not rinse and allow to dry.
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