Urtica dioca

Urtica dioca

Stinging nettle: Description. Perennial herb with a long rhizome. Stems erect, furrowed with stiff stinging stripes. The leaves are opposite, ovate-lanceolate, coarsely serrated, covered with stinging hairs. Flowers small, green, with chetyrehrazdelnym perianth, are collected in long racemes. Fruit - egg-shaped nut. Plant height 30 - 150 cm
Flowering time. June - August.
Habitat. The ravines, forest edges and clearings of forests, rivers, gardens, shrubbery, and along roads.
The applied part. Leafy, flowering tops, rhizomes and roots.
Collection time. June-August, during flowering. Rhizomes - late fall.
Stinging nettle: Chemical composition. Nettle herb contains minerals (iron, silica, potassium, calcium), vitamins B, K, C, carotene (provitamin A), a glycoside, tannins, resin, and proteins, gum, mucilage, organic acids. The seeds contain fatty oil.
Stinging nettle: Action. Vasoconstrictor, stimulating tonic, hemostatic wound healing, diuretic, expectorant, laxative weak, anticonvulsant, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, analgesic, choleretic, "blood-purifying" multivitamin. The root acts as an anti-cancer, antifebrile, expectorant, antirheumatic. Grass infusion increases the amount of hemoglobin and red blood cells. Regulates the functional activity of the gastrointestinal tract, the composition and amount of beneficial bacteria in the intestine, increases the contraction of smooth muscles of the uterus muscle and skin tone, eliminates inflammation. Stimulates the kidneys, lowers blood sugar and urine, improves the respiratory center stimulates granulation and epithelization of damaged tissues, improves metabolism, activity of the heart and overall health, restores the sense of smell, strengthens the milk.
Stinging nettle: Application. At different bleedings (lung, intestine, hemorrhoids, uterine). In the gastro-intestinal diseases (dysentery, chronic constipation, diarrhea, gemokolitah, flatulence, gastritis, gastric ulcer.
Method of application.
1. 1 tablespoon herb to 1 cup of boiling water, leave for 1-2 hours in a thermos. Drink 1 / 3 cup 3 times a day for 30 minutes. before eating. Outwardly rub into scalp one time per week for growth and strengthen hair.
2. 2 tablespoons of herb per 1 cup boiling water, leave. Use as a rinse, lotions for skin diseases.
3. Fresh juice of the nettle 1 teaspoon 3 times a day.
4. The powder of dried leaves to use for dusting and weeping wounds festering.
5. Crushed leaves and seeds applied to purulent wounds of the wild meat and ulcers.