Stinging nettle

The plant has exclusive gynoecium- or stamen flowers (Dioeciously). The blossoms from June until October with in clusters hanging flowers.
The large stinging nettle has a square, bushy stem that 2 meters become high can.
The plants is general prevented and is to be found weigh near, edges of the wood and neglected gardens. The plant thrives nearly everywhere but has a preference for a good fertilised soil as by compost hills or at the edge of a field.

Stinging nettle has green, strongly zigzag leaves with a downy underside.
The most important characteristic of the stinging nettle is that he covers is with fire hair. This are fine hollow her, want to give breaks that a burning when the breakable point. The hairs contain formic acid and other matters that blisters, burning spots cause and itch on the skin.

The name Urtica dioica comes from the Latin uro or "I burn", what refers to the pricking character of the plant, and dioica or 2 houses what refers to the separation of the masculine and feminine plants. The Dutch name is originating from the Anglo-Saxon and diverted by the word noedl or needle.

The plant became uses for many purposes, used weaving as one the stiff fibres matters from. This became immortalized by Hans Christian Andersen in the fairy-tale of the princess and the 11 swans: the coats that they for them had to make before dawn made they of stinging nettles. The plant became uses also by the production of paper. In 1835 discovered the herbalist, that stinging nettle Watch birds, to a visit at the Indies, are patients cured of tear belly.

As a medicine, the herb and the root becomes uses.

Working and character.
Blood purifying, blood set pen, weak drainer, anti-allergic, nutritiously.

Indications.
- Skin problems, as eczema
- Allergic put on, as hay fever and asthma.
- In the menstruation heavy blood to light.
- By an increased prostate (use hereby the root).

Application.
Drink of a tea 2 time daily 2 decilitre and of the root decoction daily 2 dl. Take in of the tincture 3 time daily 3 ml (60 drops). Process the young tops of the leaf through a soup. Use the soup as daily tonic.

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The working in the body.
Although the stinging nettle known state round its pricking working, he has not has been exposed boil this effect as he at heat, through or by preparation till tea. Ironically enough he becomes uses by skin problems, as eczema and related allergies. Stinging nettle has also astringent and blood set pen qualities and can about that applied become by serious blood of wounds or by the menstruation. The presence of vitamin C and iron make the herb sore arranged as a tonic by anaemia and by an iron deficiency. The root becomes uses well to treat an increased prostate. Stinging Nettle juice and tea are useful drinks pregnant are when you or gives breast-feeding. The juice and the tea are beneficial by gout and arthritis.

External use.
- Rub by stiff joints the painful place in with fresh stinging nettle leaf.
- Snuff by a blood nose fresh Stinging Nettle juice on.
- A compress Make against burnings.
- The oil-extract is beneficial by lit psoriasis.
- Use the tea or tincture as a rinse by hair outburst and a dry head skin.

Many insects feed self with stinging nettle as butterflies and by. The fibre can be woven till matter. The leaves give a green dye and the roots a yellow.
The small stinging nettle (urtica urens) becomes uses in the homeopathy by Urticaria. The young top leaves can be boiled eaten the whole year as a spinach or as a soup. Boiled stinging nettles do not stick. See also by culinary.

Bitters matter ( cnicine ), tan-bark matter, mucus matter, ethereal oil (little), chlorophyll, classified (for instance: histamine and serotonine), acetylcholine, vitamin C, beta carotene, iron, potassium Calcium, sulphur, manganese, silicon and dietary fibre.

With some people, irritation can act. If this is with you the case, stopper then with the use.
Ripe plants do not eats is bad raw, this for the liver.
Ups and downs carefully by the picking. The nettle hairs stick. A good remedy against the irritation causes is Ground-ivy through the stinging nettle. What pick leaves of the Ground-ivy (that it almost always in the neighbourhood grows) and rub this on the itching spot.

The young top leaves can be boiled eaten the whole year as a spinach or as a soup. Boiled stinging nettles do not stick.

Requisites.
Stinging nettles (as they everything parent be, only the tops)
Thin lard blogs
Paste (for instance Fusili)
Cream sauce from a package, by garden herb
Grated cheese

Method.
Stinging nettles good wash and coarse cuts.
Pastes done boil and the lard blogs even bins.
The stinging nettles by the lard blogs join and let shrink (there remains little from over, use thus many stinging nettles)
The cream sauce join closed and after that yet some through warming.
Stir the boiled paste through it and it clearly on is to be served.
Do there on your plate what grated cheese over.

This recipe has infinity many variation possibilities: what salami by the lard or for instance crème freche or cream culinary instead of the cream sauce.

The leaves and the height of the small stinging nettle its smaller than that of the large stinging nettle. The heights are 10 until 60 cm. The small stinging nettle has deeper/ larger saw tooth at the leaf then that of the large stinging nettle. The leaves are dark green and rather shining.

Literature

[1]. Britton, Jade & Kircher, Tamara; - the healing power of herbs - First busily;
Groningen: TextCase (2000). ISBN 90 , 5764 , 030 , 9
[2]. Shaw, Nun;- herb medicine - First edition; Cologne: Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH
(1999). ISBN 3-8290-1511-9
[3]. Rüdt, YOU; - Therapeutic and poisonous plants - First busily; Zutphen: B. V. W. J. Thieme & Cie
(1973). ISBN 90-03 94630 , 2
[4]. Mathijssen, Eugene;- Better knowledge is healthier life - First busy; Hema (1998).
ISBN 90389 0746x


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