HorseTail
(Silica)
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Over the last 10 years Horsetail has shown a significant decrease
in the healing time of injuries with much less scar tissue formation.
I use it primarily for broken bones and soft tissue sprains
and strains. It routinely heals broken bones and the surrounding
soft tissues in 1/2 the time as compared to the same healing
times without its use. Like vitamin E with Selenium, Horsetail
also improves the quality of connective tissue regeneration
with remarkablely less scar tissue formation. It is my
recommendation that if you have a riding or raci41 injury that
you consider Horsetail in you rehabilitation treatment protocol.
Horsetail (Equisetum Arvense), also known as Silica, has been
long used by herbologist and natural healers all over the world.
Horsetail is rich in silica and silicon. It also contains high
levels of potassium, calcium, and a significant variety of fatty
acids. Horsetail, when included into the daily diet, facilitates
all connective tissues to build and/or regenerate in about one
half the time. It also encourages the absorption of calcium
and the breakdown of vitamin B. Horsetail, not only stimulates
new hair and fingernail growth, but also helps eliminate excess
oil from skin and hair in the process.
Horsetail and its wonderful healing activation and repair properties
nourish all connective tissues, bone, blood vessels, skin, nails
and hair. It makes connective tissues and bones stronger, thicker,
and resilient to higher stress loads. And Horsetail allows the
natural healing processes to occur, not only better, but also
faster. Some of the more popular uses for this herb include:
1. Arthritis
2. Bed wetting
3. Bladder disorders
4. Body’s new growth during
the first twenty years of life
5. Circulation enhancement
6. Connective tissue repair (all), such as, ligaments,
tendons,
muscles, bone,
and cartilage
7. Detoxification
8. Finger
nail growth
9. Hair growth
10. Immune system (building)
11. Incontinence
12. Kidney disorders, such as, kidney stones
13. Nervous system (repairing and building)
14. Skin disorders
15. Urinary tract disorders
16. Water retention disorders (as a diuretic)
17. Wound healing (external & internal) for stopping bleeding,
antibiotic properties,
and for its unique ability to initiate the
healing process at the wound site
Horsetail is also used for:
1. Healing all connective
tissue, such as broken bones (hard
tissue) and muscle, tendon and ligaments (soft tissue).
2. Straightening and helps prevent hernia, ruptures,
or fractures
of connective
tissue, bone, and peri tissues (the tissues that
surround other tissues, structures, and organs)
3. Helps prevent and helps accelerate recovery of bruising and
swelling from trauma or jaundice
4. Restores both vascular channels and blood loss
out of its
proper vascular
channels
5. Aids in the phagocytic (clean-up) actions
in the body
6. Helps the bowels to function properly
and aids in digestion
7. Stimulates the kidneys
and functions as a diuretic
8. Used in liver and
gallbladder disease and disorders
9. Used in the
treatment of skin disorders
10. Helps eye problems and opens blocked tear ducts
11. Stimulates hair growth
Horsetail is an amazing Herb that helps build and provides elasticity
to bones, hair, skin, nails, and teeth. Fractured bones heal
in half the time when horsetail is included as a supplement
in the daily diet.
Detoxification
Horsetail is a diuretic and astringent that has been used to
help control incontinence including bed-wetting - it both strengthens
the bladder and eliminates water. It is a good "Spring
Cleaning" detoxification herb. Like with connective tissues
there also is evidence that horsetail builds the immune and
nervous systems, as well. It is recommended for urinary tract
infections due to its antibiotic properties.
Horsetail is a very important organic Herb used in the preventing
and the repairing of connective tissues, such as, bone, muscles,
tendons, ligaments, blood vessels, nerves, skin, and other body
structures. It is very constructively used in accelerating bone
regeneration during the repair process shortening the healing
times.
Athletic Training
It should not be surprising that athletes use Horsetail as a
daily dietary supplement in helping to prevent injuries. In
prevention, horsetail helps allow the building of connective
tissues and bones to grow stronger, more resilient, and recover
faster from overstress and injury. This quality is most definitely
an asset in any form of competition.
Recommended
Dosages
Pehabilitation - Orally, 1 to 3 capsules daily depending upon
the degree of stress demands placed upon your body. The general
population will require a smaller dosage than that of athletes
and business executives. But remember, the high the mental or
physical stress loads and demands placed upon you, the higher
the daily-required dosage. Horsetail works better when taken
with a meal.
Rehabilitation - Orally,
3 to 6 capsules daily. Take one to two capsules with each meal.
Normally, injured body tissues repair and regenerate themselves
in a time range from 7 to 120 days. Horsetail will shorten that
time period by approximately one half.
During
The First Week Of Usage
During its first week of usage you may want to build a faster
higher concentration (titer) of horsetail within the body. This
can be accomplished by a few different methods.
1. By placing the contents of one capsule under the tongue,
for two
or more minutes, each morning
for the first week.
2. By placing the contents of one, or two, capsules in a cup
of hot
water (tea) drinking it
just before bedtime for the first week.
3. Or, by adding one additional capsule to the morning dosage
for
the first week.
Which
Herbal Products Perform The Best
In all athletic competition, performance is the name of the
game. Out of all the Herbal products available that I have actually
tried and used, Natures Sunshine’s "Horsetail"
has consistently out performed the rest. Horsetail has 360 mg
(5.56 grains silica) per capsule.
Is It Safe
To date, there is no records of Horsetail ever having any harmful
effects to man. However, there are abundant accounts and records
attesting to the great benefits found from the re-establishment
in the quality of man’s health when it is included into
a rehabilitation daily diet.
Horse Tail should not be taken on a regular daily bases unless
you are in the treating or rehabilitating a injury.
Caution
Not all manufacturers’ herbs work the same. Some manufacturers
dilute their products so much that the product works slower
or not at all. In raci41 I have learned that only performance
counts. And if I continued using the product it was because
it was performing. So remember, many manufacturers’ products
just don’t work at the levels necessary for the racers.
I personally know that the ones listed here do perform and so
do the riders who use them.
Be your own judge about which works best for you. If you do
not know than call the company or look for these words on the
container:
1. Cold Pressed
2. Cold Processed
3. All Natural
Then it will not perform like those who do.
This amazing healing herb called "Horsetail" can be
purchased in our college Bookstore.
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