Stinging Nettle

A perennial herbaceous nettle plant grows almost on every vegetable garden, but not everyone knows that it is one of those early food products in which there are many multivitamins.

Nettle can be seen immediately after melting snow, and in early April it can already be eaten.

Varieties of nettle a few, but the most common, nettles, dioecious, in Russia was often used: its tops fed by chickens allowed them to get more eggs from them, young shoots of nettle were increased by a milk nap, cooked soup, cabbage soup, salads, eggs and Etc.

The plant dioecious nettle is known as medicinal enough for a long time, Avicenna wrote about its miraculous properties. If you exfoliate his leaves, you can get an excellent hemostatic. Since the 16th century, the hemostatic properties of this miraculous plant have caused doctors to prescribe decoctions of nettles for diseases such as uterine, intestinal and pulmonary hemorrhages, as well as for abscesses.

The raw materials for the medicine are both leaves and seeds of the plant. It is collected during the period from June to August, when the flowering process is in progress. Knowing the burning of nettle, it needs to be cut off in gloves, although folk medicine believes that even a nettle burn is very useful.

Then the plant is spread in a dry ventilated place, dried under a canopy or in an attic, making sure that there is no direct sunlight on the raw material, otherwise the vitamins will break down.

The leaves of the plant are very useful for eating, since the caloric and nutritional content of the nettle is not inferior to many leguminous crops. It contains vitamins K, B1, C, potassium, protein, iron, calcium, formic and silicic acid, fats, glycoside and much more. By the amount of carotene content nettle surpasses even carrots, and ascorbic acid - black currant.

Miraculous hemostatic property of nettle is due to the content in it of vitamin K, which in such quantities occurs in a very small number of plants.

Infusion of nettle is an effective tool in the treatment of various bleedings, with a decrease in the resistance of the human body to external factors. It is prepared as follows: a tablespoon of dried crushed leaves is poured into a glass of steep boiling water, it is infused for ten minutes and after a percolation is taken three times a day for one spoonful.

Many doctors and healers believe that nettle is an excellent remedy for metabolic disorders, so they prescribe infusion for anemia, rheumatism, constipation, atherosclerosis and stomach disorders.

No less popular is nettle and in cosmetology. It helps to strengthen the roots of hair, reduces the greasiness of the fatty layer of the scalp, and fights dandruff. At home, for this purpose, you can simply rinse it with a decoction of hair or rub it into the scalp.

If you eat dried leaves together with yogurt from the calculation of two spoons of nettle on a glass, you can lower the blood sugar level in the blood, and also relieve inflammation in the small intestine.

Nettle nettle seeds are very helpful in various male problems, increasing potency and sexual desire. To do this, they are brewed as tea, as well as poured red wine at the rate of 20 grams of seeds per two glasses, insisted for a week and drink a spoonful a day.

Today in pharmacies you can find briquettes of crushed nettle leaves, the lobules of which are convenient to pour boiling water and drink infusion.

However, we must not forget that the use of nettle has its limitations. It can not be taken to those people who have increased blood clotting, have gastritis, an ulcer, hypertension, as well as pregnant women on the last term.