Names: Bottle Brush, Corn Horsetail, Dutch Rushes, Equisetum, Field Horsetail, Horse Tail, Horse Willow, Horsetail Grass, Horsetail Rush, Paddock-Pipes, Pewterwort, Prele, Scouring Rush, Souring Rush, Shave Grass, Shavegrass, Toadpipe. Equisetum arvense; Equisetum telmateia.  

Family: Equisetaceae.

Properties:

disperse wind-heat – red-painful eyes, blurred vision, pterygium
clear heat, stop bleeding – blood in stool, haemorrhoids

Dosage: 3 – 9g.

Also Used For:

Orally, Mu Zei/Horsetail is used for diuresis, edema, kidney and bladder stones, urinary tract infections, and general disturbances of the kidney and bladder. It is also used for alopecia, tuberculosis, brittle fingernails, rheumatic diseases, gout, frostbite, profuse menstruation, and nasal, pulmonary, and gastric hemorrhage.

Topically, Mu Zei/Horsetail is used for supportive treatment of wounds and burns