Eclectic Institute botanicals are carefully harvested at their optimal potency. They are either cultivated without the use of chemicals, preservatives, herbicides, pesticides, fumigation, and irradiation or wildcrafted in their natural habitat. ...
Native Americans used horsetail as a poultice to promote wound healing. The Thompson tribe in British Columbia applied the ashes of horsetail fern stems to burns. The herb's high silica content makes it abrasive, and in the past it was used to polish metal and wood. Its common name, bottlebrush, indicates another of its uses. Horsetail was also tie ...