Osteoporosis can creep up on you overnight, despite any healthy lifestyle changes you may have made to prevent it. Sometimes, however, osteoporosis arrives without warning, because the changes you've made haven't been sufficient, or simply because that's the way your body is. If taken early enough, gentle alternatives can help sufferers to live their daily lives in a much more flexible and pleasant way. Chemical medication isn't essential for everyone, and it's much better to use the magic of plants to relieve this kind of ailment.

In phytotherapy, we recommend remineralizing plants to strengthen damaged bone mass. Even if the use of such plants is much more interesting for prevention, the rich quality of these plants can nevertheless help a suffering body and limit the damage already underway.

Horsetail: a plant with rare and irreplaceable virtues

Horsetail, Equisetum arvense, also known as "scouring herb", "rat's tail" or "fox tail", is a member of the equisetaceae family. The plant contains tannins, resin, sugars, pectin, silica, vitamin C and glutathione. Its high silica content makes horsetail a very interesting plant for organic remineralization. It also contains other minerals such as calcium, sodium, iron, potassium, magnesium and sulfur, among others, making it a plant with rare and irreplaceable virtues.

Directly assimilated by the body, horsetail is a jewel in herbal medicine because of its exceptional quality. Used in many fields, it is particularly suitable for people suffering from rheumatism or osteoporosis. Horsetail is available to everyone in a variety of forms: capsules, powder, dried leaves, mother tincture, juice and even ampoules. Each with its own possibilities and dosage, depending on the desired objective. Of course, depending on the degree of suffering involved, one form may be used to a greater or lesser extent than another.

Of course, being a remineralizing plant, it will also be very useful if you suffer from brittle nails, damaged or brittle hair, tooth decay, rheumatism, osteoarthritis, ... which are disorders linked to this mineral concern. As with all plants, horsetail should be used with care.

Fresh nettle

Also known for its phytotherapy qualities, nettle - Urtica Dioica, not to be confused with its little sister Urtica Urens - is also a plant to be highlighted for its remineralizing properties. It contains chlorophylls, serotonin, potassium, iron, calcium, sulfur, manganese, silica and tannins. Nettle is a great ally, as its benefits are numerous, and here again, the methods of intake are different and adaptable to your needs. Of course, fresh nettle should only be consumed with a knowledge of botany, to avoid the plant's teeth, which contain skin-irritating formic acid.
Like its friend horsetail, nettle is easily assimilated by the body.

Of course, plants are not magicians; they don't repair, but they support an organism in the process of transformation. It is therefore vital to understand that the advice given in phytotherapy must go hand in hand with a new lifestyle that combines a diet adapted to the problem and physical hygiene, which is none other than sport. In contrast to conventional, chemical medication, naturopathy supports and helps the body through a holistic approach.