COLA DE CABALLO HERBAL TEA DIURETIC/GASTRITIS/LIVER & KIDNEY)
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Cola de Caballo - Herbal Tea (85g.)
Latin (botanical) Name: Equisetum bogotense Kunth
Description: Cola de Caballo is one of our native traditionals, and although originating from the Andes of South America, it has, over the past century, been naturalized to many places around the world. (If you research this plant on the internet, please don't confuse it with the famous tourist spot of the same name in Nuevo Leon, Mexico!)
As while we're talking about potential confusion, note that this variety of horsetail that we sell should not be confused with E. giganteum -- a horsetail of the same genus possessing similar medicinal properties . . . This product can be used as tea using the instructions below, and it also lends itself to encapsulation by experienced end users.
Product Description
Ground Leaves & Stems of Bogota Horsetail Ground tea leaves: 85 gr. (net wt) Makes Nearly 2 Gallons of Tea (Using 11 g. or approx 1/3 cup to make one quart)
Benefits: Diuretic / Gastritis / Liver and Kidney Tonic
Uses and Protocols:
I. Preparation --- if you can boil water, you can make this product: Professional herbalists will recognize this as a standard decoction.
Add 1/3 cups of Cola de Caballo to a large sauce pan, along with one quart of purified water (0.95 liters). You have enough product in the product bag to do this seven to eight times.
Heat until a very low-level boil or "barely boiling" level has been reached and continue boiling for 5 minutes.
Stir occasionally.
Remove heat source and let cool.
Pour the contents of your pan through a strainer and into a large glass vase or container so as to remove most of the tea fragments.
Dispose of tea fragments.
Drink your tea hot . . . refrigerate glass vase and enjoy later as a refreshing cold tea . . . or refrigerate and reheat later if you want to enjoy the product as a hot tea. You may add cinnamon, lemon, and/or honey to taste. More specific protocols for the use of the product are provided below.
II. Protocols.
Take under the advisement of your naturopath or other health care practitioner.
Contraindications: As a precaution, should be taken under the advisement of a practitioner if user suffers from hypertension.
"Ethnobotanical Dosage / Usage: Duke provides a "food farmacy potential" score for this plant of, "FNFF=X" ("I found nothing credible suggesting the plant as food.")
Indications for its ethnobotanical use worldwide are broad and fall into the following categories (p. 295):
Cholera, cancer, renal calculi, bleeding, and as a diuretic, emmenagogue, stimulant, and for treatment of colds, cystosis, and lupus (Peru).
Diuretic, emmenagogue, hemostat, litholytic, stimulant, and vascoconstrictor -- (Bolivia).
Colds, halitosis, phlegm, spleen function improvement -- (Bolivia).
Sanitize sores and wounds (external); cystosis, hemorrhage (internal) -- (Costa Rica)
Alopecia, capillary hemmorrhage, oliguria, oral ulcers, pulmonary ailments -- (Colombia)
Kidney pains, liver ailments, correction to facial blemishes -- (Peruvians of the Madre de Dios region)
Collyrium, depurative, diuretic, hemostat, alopecia, metrorrhagia, ophthalmia -- (Panama)" Greg Caton
Additional Online Resources:
Bone Builder-- The combination of Calcium Sulfate Hydronium Solution (see H3O) with "horsetail silica" (an extract of this herb) was found by our lab to have profound effects in speeding up the healing process of mending bones.
Herbal Remedies as Diuretics -- Included in this review are the revelant species of Equisetum.
An FDA "pre-market" notification for a variety of herbs, including "cola de caballo" -- dated July, 2000.
Michael Matus has an informative site just devoted to Equisetum -- see separate page for Equisetum bogotense. He can be reached in person at equisetum@matus.at.
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life) has a very respectable entry for Equisetum bogotense, which includes taxonomy, plant distribution, pictorial, scientific literature, and other useful information for this species.
Phytotherapy Research -- Volume 8, Issue 3, p. 157-160 (May 1994). "Hypotensive and diuretic effect of Equisetum bogotense and Fuchsia magellanica and micropropagation of E. bogotense." Typical of Wiley Online Library, you have free access to the abstract, but it costs to obtain the article in full.
Diuretic activity of an Equisetum bogotense tea (Platero herb): evaluation in healthy volunteers -- source: PubMed.gov (a consortium of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the NIH [National Institutes of Health]).
Yerba de la plata -- a complete discussion of the plant in Spanish. Additional indications in
Latin (botanical) Name: Equisetum bogotense Kunth
Description: Cola de Caballo is one of our native traditionals, and although originating from the Andes of South America, it has, over the past century, been naturalized to many places around the world. (If you research this plant on the internet, please don't confuse it with the famous tourist spot of the same name in Nuevo Leon, Mexico!)
As while we're talking about potential confusion, note that this variety of horsetail that we sell should not be confused with E. giganteum -- a horsetail of the same genus possessing similar medicinal properties . . . This product can be used as tea using the instructions below, and it also lends itself to encapsulation by experienced end users.
Product Description
Ground Leaves & Stems of Bogota Horsetail Ground tea leaves: 85 gr. (net wt) Makes Nearly 2 Gallons of Tea (Using 11 g. or approx 1/3 cup to make one quart)
Benefits: Diuretic / Gastritis / Liver and Kidney Tonic
Uses and Protocols:
I. Preparation --- if you can boil water, you can make this product: Professional herbalists will recognize this as a standard decoction.
Add 1/3 cups of Cola de Caballo to a large sauce pan, along with one quart of purified water (0.95 liters). You have enough product in the product bag to do this seven to eight times.
Heat until a very low-level boil or "barely boiling" level has been reached and continue boiling for 5 minutes.
Stir occasionally.
Remove heat source and let cool.
Pour the contents of your pan through a strainer and into a large glass vase or container so as to remove most of the tea fragments.
Dispose of tea fragments.
Drink your tea hot . . . refrigerate glass vase and enjoy later as a refreshing cold tea . . . or refrigerate and reheat later if you want to enjoy the product as a hot tea. You may add cinnamon, lemon, and/or honey to taste. More specific protocols for the use of the product are provided below.
II. Protocols.
Take under the advisement of your naturopath or other health care practitioner.
Contraindications: As a precaution, should be taken under the advisement of a practitioner if user suffers from hypertension.
"Ethnobotanical Dosage / Usage: Duke provides a "food farmacy potential" score for this plant of, "FNFF=X" ("I found nothing credible suggesting the plant as food.")
Indications for its ethnobotanical use worldwide are broad and fall into the following categories (p. 295):
Cholera, cancer, renal calculi, bleeding, and as a diuretic, emmenagogue, stimulant, and for treatment of colds, cystosis, and lupus (Peru).
Diuretic, emmenagogue, hemostat, litholytic, stimulant, and vascoconstrictor -- (Bolivia).
Colds, halitosis, phlegm, spleen function improvement -- (Bolivia).
Sanitize sores and wounds (external); cystosis, hemorrhage (internal) -- (Costa Rica)
Alopecia, capillary hemmorrhage, oliguria, oral ulcers, pulmonary ailments -- (Colombia)
Kidney pains, liver ailments, correction to facial blemishes -- (Peruvians of the Madre de Dios region)
Collyrium, depurative, diuretic, hemostat, alopecia, metrorrhagia, ophthalmia -- (Panama)" Greg Caton
Additional Online Resources:
Bone Builder-- The combination of Calcium Sulfate Hydronium Solution (see H3O) with "horsetail silica" (an extract of this herb) was found by our lab to have profound effects in speeding up the healing process of mending bones.
Herbal Remedies as Diuretics -- Included in this review are the revelant species of Equisetum.
An FDA "pre-market" notification for a variety of herbs, including "cola de caballo" -- dated July, 2000.
Michael Matus has an informative site just devoted to Equisetum -- see separate page for Equisetum bogotense. He can be reached in person at equisetum@matus.at.
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life) has a very respectable entry for Equisetum bogotense, which includes taxonomy, plant distribution, pictorial, scientific literature, and other useful information for this species.
Phytotherapy Research -- Volume 8, Issue 3, p. 157-160 (May 1994). "Hypotensive and diuretic effect of Equisetum bogotense and Fuchsia magellanica and micropropagation of E. bogotense." Typical of Wiley Online Library, you have free access to the abstract, but it costs to obtain the article in full.
Diuretic activity of an Equisetum bogotense tea (Platero herb): evaluation in healthy volunteers -- source: PubMed.gov (a consortium of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the NIH [National Institutes of Health]).
Yerba de la plata -- a complete discussion of the plant in Spanish. Additional indications in
