Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
done
Chapter:
433.44.01
433.44.01 Equisetum arvense
English: Horsetail; Field horsetail; Bottle brush; Horse pipes.
Dutch: Heermoes.
Content: toxic alkaloid, palustrine, saponoside; equisetonoside, enzyme; thiaminase; capable of destroying vitamin B1.
Botany: Pteridophyta; Equisetopsida; Equisetales; Equisetaceae; Equisetum.
Introduction
Equisetum contains much Silicon, sometimes up to 80%.
It is for families with strict rules, order, old fashioned, living according to principles; not warm, not violent.
Father is often domineering, strict, stubborn, from a strict upbringing.
Aversion conflicts in the family, they are impossible; the harmony must be kept by following the rules.
Discussions are impossible; agitation and emotions should be avoided.
Mind
Desire: travel, buy things, cooking, music, dancing, laugh, rejoice.
Restless, whining, shrieking, screaming, shouting.
Fear: water; left by husband; burglars, thieves.
Endogenous depression, manic-depressive; like dementia, apathy.
General
Time: < 11 am, < 5 pm.
Physical: < movement, motion, < pressure, < sitting down; > lying.
Sleep: sleepless.
Body
Eyes: glaucoma.
Lungs: coughs; tuberculosis.
Face: acne rosacea.
Stomach: haemorrhage.
Urinary: pain bladder, dull, raw, tender, distension, < motion, < pressure, < sitting down, > lying; urethra pain, violent, burning, acrid cutting, < urination; urine scanty, small quantity, high coloured, mucus, gravel, stones, retention, urination painful, dribbling, < pregnancy, < parturition; cystitis, pyelitis; enuresis; urge constant.
Male: inflammations; gonorrhoea.
Female: inflammations; gonorrhoea.
Back: lumbago.
Limbs: thrombophlebitis.
Skin: eruptions, herpes circinatus, tonsurans; pustules; eczema, < cold, < winter; acne rosacea; gangrenous ulcers; wounds slow healing; hair falling.