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Plant Details

Accepted name: 
Equisetum hyemale L. [Equisetaceae]
Source: 
World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant: 
Plants of the World Online
Non-scientific name: Class of name: Medicinal source:
bitongcao Other Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
carricillo Other Farmacopea Herbolaria Mexico (2001)
Guía de Pl. Med. en Valle de México (Fonseca Chávez et al., 2020)
cavalinha Other Med. Pl. Traded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Leitãoa et al., 2014)
cola de caballo Other Guía de Pl. Med. en Valle de México (Fonseca Chávez et al., 2020)
Med. Pl. for Diabetes in C America (Giovannini et al., 2016)
Pl. Res. of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, Mexico (Casas et al., 2001)
cola de caballo, tallo Other Farmacopea Herbolaria Mexicanos (2013)
common scouring rush herb Other Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
common scouring-rush Other GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
dutch rush Other U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
equiseti herba Pharmaceutical Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)
equiseti hiemalis herba Pharmaceutical Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014)
Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
Pharmacopoeia of China (2015)
equiseti hyemalis herba Pharmaceutical Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
equisetum hyemale Other U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
great scouring-rush Other GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
herba equiseti hiemalis Pharmaceutical Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
horsetail Other U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
horsetail* Other U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
k uture Other Guía de Pl. Med. en Valle de México (Fonseca Chávez et al., 2020)
mu zei Other Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
muzei Other Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014)
Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
Pharmacopoeia of China (2015)
Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
pitillo Other Guía de Pl. Med. en Valle de México (Fonseca Chávez et al., 2020)
prêle d'hiver Other GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
rough horsetail Other GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
scouring horsetail Other U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
scouring rush Other Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
scouringrush Other U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
scouringrush horsetail Other Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
shave-grass Other GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
skavfräken Other GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
tall scouring-rush Other U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
tokusa Other GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
western scouringrush Other U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
木賊 Other Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014)
Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
木贼 Other Consv. of Endangered Med. Pl. in Arid Desert Region (Lang et al., 2017)
Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
笔筒草 Other Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)