I don't feel I fully understand why equisetum is what it is. I used to think that the tea was contributing Si but now I think it is much more subtle than that. I sent in a post a while back about JPI's analysis showing that the tea has a high S content. And the plant itself can be described as a Ca plant. RS describes it as "pushing back" excessive etheric force, as opposed to "drawing in" higher formative forces, as done by the Si in 501. Or the "pulling in" of etheric forces as done by the oak bark /skull prep. This sort of connects with Ca and sort of connects with having a purely vegetative stalk. And S is the important catalyst for bringing in higher formative forces. I also note that RS described equisetum in a different context from the other preps. It's separated from the 500/501 axis, separate from the compost pile preps, and included in his discussion of lunar/water aspects connected with remedies for "disease". All makes it a very interesting subject.IN one of his lectures, Chadwick mentions that from the beginning of gardening equisetum has been used as an anti-fungal tea. He points out that by it's disposition of growth: commonly wet areas, its signature is profoundly anti-fungal.
We identify it differently in BD. I think that it is important to know that in European peasant traditional farming equisetum was apparently used to control fungal outbreaks, at least according to Chadwick, who is rumoured to have known all about such things.
-Allan
