I spoke with Hugh Courtney this a.m. He said 'yes' to working with the equisetum UNSTRAINED after simmering it for 1 hour.
He said 'yes' to putting it in a 5gal earthenware crock and keeping it out of sunlight. There were lots of other questions I should have asked, I guess. I'm still very interested in hearing what works for the remaining several hundred readers of BD Now! Thanks -Allan
