Hippochaete debilis (Roxb. ex Vaucher) Ching.
| Synonym : | Equisetum debile Roxb. ex Vaucher Hippochaete debilis (Roxb. ex Vaucher) Holub |
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| Bangla Name : | - |
| English Name : | Horse Tail. |
| Family : | Equisetaceae |
| Disease : | Cooling, gonorrhoea and bone fracture. |
| Description : | Stem scrambling, from a perennial creeping rootstock, often attaining 3 m among bushes. Branches long, slender, few, often only 2-3 in a whorl. Internodes 3.8-10 cm long. Leaf teeth 1.75-3 mm long, subulate-acuminate, black. Cone 8-18 mm long. |
| Distribution : | Chittagong and Jessore, mostly in shady hills and stream banks. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Various species of Equisetum contain flavonoids, glycoside, sterols, phenolic acids, large amounts of silicic acid and silicates. They also contain lipids containing triacontanedioic (equisetolic) and octacosanedioic acids, rhodoxanthin, silicon compounds |
| Uses : | The plant is administered as a cooling medicine, given for the treatment of gonorrhoea and bone fracture |
| Habit : | - |