Stem plant
Equisetaceae, field horsetail.
Medicinal drug
Equiseti herba – Horsetail herb: The whole or cut, dried, sterile, aerial parts of L. (PhEur). PhEur requires a minimum content of flavonoids.
Preparations
- Equiseti extractum aquosum siccum
- Equiseti extractum ethanolicum liquidum
- Equiseti extractum ethanolicum siccum
- Equiseti herbae pulvis
- Equiseti herbae recentis extractum aquosum liquidum
- Equiseti herbae recentis succus
- Equiseti tinctura
- Species diureticae PH
- Kidney and bladder teas
- Kidney and bladder lozenges
Ingredients
- Silicic acid, silicates
- Flavanoids
Effects
Diuretic
Indications
- Urinary tract infections, cystitis.
- Oedeme
- External for skin diseases
Dosage
As an infusion, alternatively as a cold extract (12 h), average daily dose 6 g.
Contraindications
Oedema due to impaired cardiac and renal function.
