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Equisetum

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Equisetum Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification

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  • Category: 🌿 Herbal Remedy
  • Miasm: Psoric Miasm
  • Temperament: Neutral
  • Aggravation: ☀️ Afternoon

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🌿 Traditional Herbal Medicine Profile This page outlines the crude botanical applications, traditional herbal infusions, and active properties of Equisetum. Herbal preparations act biochemically on body tissues.
▲ GENERAL
  • Affinity for the urinary organs.
  • Pain in the kidneys (especially right), in the bladder and urinary passages.
  • Irritation of the bladder and kidneys.
  • Urinary retention and dysuriaPainful or difficult urinationDiscomfort, pain, or a burning sensation during urination, often indicating a urinary tract infection., especially in women during pregnancy and after confinement.
  • Constant desire to urinate and passes large quantities of clear, lightcolored urine without relief.
  • CystitisInflammation of the urinary bladderInflammation of the urinary bladder, typically caused by a bacterial urinary tract infection, causing painful urination..
  • Severe, dull pain tha t does not lessen after urination.
  • Aching, full, tender bladder, not better after urinating.
  • Pain in bladder as from distention.
  • Pricking, burning, cutting pain in urethra while urinating.
  • Dribbling urine in old women with involuntary stool.
  • Much mucus in urine.
  • Bedwetting (Lyc., Nat-m., Sil..
  • Sep.).
  • Nocturnal bedwetting of children without causes except habit.
  • Bedwetting when he dreams, he always sees a crowd of people.
  • Pain in sacroiliac joints
▲ HERBAL PROPERTIES & MODALITIES
  • Better in afternoon.
  • Better lying down.
  • Better continued motion.
  • Worse right side.
  • Worse movement.
  • Worse touch.
  • Worse pressure.
  • Worse contact.
  • Worse sitting down.
  • Worse at c lose of urination
▲ HERBAL INTERACTIONS & SAFETY
📊 Comparative Herbal Actions:

Compare: ( 1 ) Sars., Apis, Berb., Hydrang., Ferr-p., Linaria, Chim. (2) Cann-i., Puls., (3) Canth.
comes closest, there is less bleeding, tenesmus, scalding and fibrinous flakes than w ith Canth., but more
mucus.

▲ MIND
  • Very irritable and easily fatigued.
▲ HEAD
  • Severe headache with intense pain in upper part of eyes or roof of orbit.
  • Headache with heat of face without red ness.
  • Constrictive feeling across forehead.
  • Sticking and darting pains, changing locality.
  • Constriction of whole scalp, as if drawn tightly over whole skull.
  • Feeling of skin continuing to contract, continual desire to wrinkle up forehead.
▲ EYES
  • Severe pain in roof of right orbit.
  • Sharp pain in outer angle of right eye
▲ EARS
  • Dull, transient pain and stiff feeling behind left mastoid.
  • Confused feeling in ears.
  • Confusion of sounds, confused noises, fearful rumbling
▲ FACE
  • Face flushed, feeling of heat.
  • Disposed to frown.
  • As if blood pressed into face.
  • Heat and burning without redness
▲ THROAT
  • Sharp sticking in throat.
  • Urine - Copious amounts of watery urine flows only drop by drop.
  • Profuse urination of clear, watery urine.
  • Passes large quantities of clear, light -colored urine withoutrelief.
  • Album inuria.
  • Urine cloudy.
  • Great excess of mucus on standing.
  • COMMENTS - Equis, is a deep anti-sycotic.
  • Pain in the kidneys, especially the right.
  • Pain in the bladder and urinary passages, as from distention.
  • Retention and dysuria, especially in women during pr egnancy and after confinement.
  • Severe cystitis.
  • Acute bladder infections, especially when passing large amounts of pale urine.
  • PolyuriaAbnormally excessive urinationThe production of abnormally large volumes of dilute urine, causing frequent urination..
  • Frequent urination or lack of urination.
  • ParalysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body. of the bladder, urinary retention (Aeon., Apis., Caust.).
  • Constant desire to urinate, passes large quantities of clear, light-colored urine without relief.
  • Severe, dull pain that does not lessen after urination, irritation of the bladder, especially in women.
  • Burning pain at the end of urination (Sars.).
  • Diabetes with fre quent urination.
  • General paralysis with loss of control over bladder and rectum.
  • Multiple sclerosis cases with incontinence of the urine.
  • For the side effects of strong diuretics.
  • Loss of hair, and weak nails.
  • Mending broken bones, can help retain calcium and prevent osteoporosis.
  • Hot flashes.
  • The tinctureConcentrated liquid raw extractA mother tincture prepared by soaking botanical, animal, or mineral raw materials in alcohol and water. is a natural diuretic and tonic for weak kidneys, and is also good for hemor rhoids.
  • Farrington noted the bedwetting with frequent painful urging to urinate, caus ing the patient to rise at night.
  • According to Grimmer, this remedy cured a case of uterine cancer
▲ CHEST
  • Sharp pain in region of heart, worse by inspiration.
  • Kidneys - NephritisInflammation of the kidneysAn inflammatory condition of the kidneys, affecting their filtering units, which can cause pain, blood in urine, or swelling..
  • Diabetes insipidus.
  • Weak and sensitive kidneys from abuse of diuretics.
  • Slight pain in right kidney, then in left, extending down left side of sa crum.
  • Frequent urination at night.
  • Deep pain in region of right kidney, extending to lower abdomen with urgent desire to urinate.
  • Polyuria associated with diabetes.
  • Frequent urging, with severe pain at the close of urination
▲ ABDOMEN
  • Excessive hunger, appetite greatly increased.
  • Temperature - Creeping chills beginning below and creeping up back.
  • Distended feeling.
  • Sharp pains on either side of hypogastrium, extending to middle line.
  • Dull, heavy pains in either side of lower abdomen and bladder with frequent desire to urinate, not better by urinating.
  • Severe pain in lower abdomen with passage of fetid flatus
▲ GENITALS ETC
  • Violent erections in the afternoon.
  • Soreness of testicles and cords, worse left
▲ EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Pain in upper part of shoulders and in region of vertebra prominence, worse by least motion or contact.
  • Pain in right shoulder to middle of upper arm.
  • Pain in left shoulder with shi veringo vet body and great heat of head.
  • Pain in right hip joint and near knee joint.
  • Knees very weak on least exertion.
  • Dull, heavy pain under left patella.
  • On awakening, sharp pain inner side of left knee, better after moving about a short time
▲ BACK AND NECK
  • Pains in back, especially while sitting, better lying on back and walking.
  • Right lumbar region painful.
  • Heavy sensation like a lump in right lumbar region.
  • Severe rheumaticRelating to joint or muscle painDescribe pain, stiffness, or inflammation affecting joints, muscles, or connective tissues. pains in region of sacral-lumbar joint and through left hip joint extending down outer side of left leg, ending in front three inches above knee.
  • Bladder - Frequent, profuse urination of clear, watery urine.
  • Urgent desire to urinate with prickling, biting, itching, and soreness of meatus from contact and pressure, worse scrat ching.
  • Retention of urine after childbirth.
  • Retention and dysuria during pregnancy.
  • Pricking in urethra a short distance back from meatus.
  • Severe, dull pain in bladder.
  • Feeling of fullness in bladder, not relieved by urinating.
  • Profuse urination with burning in urethra and sharp pain at root of penis.
  • Sharp, burning, cutting pain in urethra while urinating.
  • Involuntary urination during daytime.
  • Bedwetting, nocturnal and diurnal.
  • Bedwetting in children with dreams or nightmares when passing urine.
  • Obliged to rise several times at night to urinate.
  • Incontinence in old women, with involuntary stools.
  • Breasts - Sharp stitch in left breast, one inch to left and over nipple
▲ SLEEP
  • Very sleepy, heavy eyelids.
  • Sleep disturbed by tiresome dreams of many persons, places and things.
  • Dreams of crowds of people.
  • Nightmare when passing urine

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Andrew Chevallier, FNIMH — Herbal Remedies (Eyewitness Companions), and Dr. David Keifer, MD — Herbal Remedies Reference Guide. Synced with traditional botanical use and pharmacological outlines.
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This profile has been verified by the Herbalhomeo medical team in accordance with authoritative homeopathic references.

⚕️ Information is for educational purposes only. Always consult a professional homeopathic practitioner.