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The dried leaves and flowers can be made into tea. It has been used medicinally to treat rheumatism, upset stomachs, and colds. [5] The plant was used medicinally by several Native American groups, especially the leaves.
The flowering spikes, rubbed with a little sugar, are made into pills, and given internally to people bitten by mad dogs. The leaves, taken fresh and reduced to a pulp, are considered a good remedy when applied externally to the bites of scorpions. The ashes of the plant yield a considerable quantity of potash, which is used in washing clothes ...
Equisetum hyemale cultivated as an ornamental plant, for use in contained garden beds and planters, and in pots. It is a popular "icon plant" in contemporary Modernist and East Asian style garden design. Its tight verticality fits into narrow planting spaces between walkways and walls, and on small balconies.
leaves used as dye for skin, hair, and nails: Lovage: Levisticum officinale: Apiaceae: tall perennial herb culinary leaves, fruit leaves and roots used as vegetables: Flax: Linum usitatissimum: Linaceae: annual herb medicinal seeds also used as an oilseed and fiber crop: Koseret: Lippia abyssinica: Verbenaceae: shrubby herb culinary, tea ...
The leaf sheaths are narrow, with 15-20 black-tipped teeth. [2] Many, but not all, stems also have whorls of short ascending and spreading branches 1–5 cm long, with the longest branches on the lower middle of the stem. The side branches are slender, dark green, and have 1–8 nodes with a whorl of five scale leaves at each node. [citation ...
The plant contains several substances that can be used medicinally. It is rich in silicon (10%), potassium , calcium , manganese, magnesium and phosphorus, phytosterols , dietary fiber, vitamins A, E and C, tannins, alkaloids, saponins, flavonoids, glycosides and caffeic acid phenolic ester.
Equisetum (/ ˌ ɛ k w ɪ ˈ s iː t əm /; horsetail) is the only living genus in Equisetaceae, a family of vascular plants that reproduce by spores rather than seeds. [2]Equisetum is a "living fossil", the only living genus of the entire subclass Equisetidae, which for over 100 million years was much more diverse and dominated the understorey of late Paleozoic forests.
Symplocos tinctoria (the common sweetleaf, [3] horse-sugar, or yellowwood) is a deciduous or evergreen shrub or tree. It is recognized by pith of twigs chambered; by foliage not notably aromatic when bruised, leaves finely hairy beneath. Shrubs or trees to 17 m tall by 36 cm diameter at breast height. The largest first-year twigs are under 3 mm ...