Therapeutic properties of nettle

The healing properties of nettle ... It seems about them and so already written a lot. Since childhood we remember how our grandmother collected and dried nettle, and how delicious the dishes became, it was worth adding a few leaves of this amazing plant.

Elderly people say that the use of nettle is simply huge. Due to its ability to cure various ailments, nettle can easily replace seven healers.

She was used in different ways, for example, in the old days. It was considered:

• A universal medicine for getting rid of many diseases;
• An excellent food product, able to enrich the diet with virtually all necessary and useful substances;
• It is an indispensable component in the light industry. From its raw materials ropes, fabrics and ropes were made.

In my article, I propose to talk about the benefits of this plant for health. And here it can not but be noted that the curative properties of nettle become almost all-powerful, primarily due to its rich vitamin-mineral composition.

Composition of nettle

The plant contains a huge, almost incredible, a variety of useful substances: here and proteins, and fats, and carbohydrates, and fiber.

Mother Nature was not stingy, choosing carefully and vitamin-mineral composition of grass.

In a lot of the plant contains vitamins such as carotene and carotenoids, which can be synthesized in the body in vitamin A, vitamins B, vitamins E and K, ascorbic acid.

Among the trace elements, we can not fail to mention aluminum, barium, iron, potassium, calcium, manganese, copper, molybdenum, sulfur and chromium.

In addition to the substances listed above, nettles also include histamine, tannins, formic acid, urticin, phytoncides, flavonoids, chlorophyll.

It's hard to imagine that, for example, vitamin C in nettles is twice as large as, let's say, in lemons, and about 10 times more than in apples that are familiar to us. Carotene in this plant contains even more than carrots, sorrel or sea-buckthorn.

Effects of nettles on the body

Therapeutic properties of nettle Are vast. This plant has an excellent anti-inflammatory and tonic effect, improves blood clotting, for example, in cuts, wounds or ulcers.

Very often nettle is recommended for anemia. It also helps to get rid of dark circles under the eyes and greatly facilitates the course of profuse and painful menstruation in women.

Although, it should be noted that with this plant you need to be extremely careful people with blood diseases, for example, with atherosclerosis, thrombophlebitis and varicose veins. A powerful hemostatic effect can provoke the appearance of blood clots. Also nettles are not recommended for pregnant women, too. Her broth may well lead to premature birth, causing a contraction of the uterus musculature.

Among other things, the curative properties of nettle are used in radiculitis and rheumatism, diseases of the bladder and liver, as well as with muscle pain. This plant is able to stimulate the metabolism of carbohydrates and proteins in the human body. And for the visual organs of nettle can be useful, due to the high content of carotenoids.

Without exaggeration, it can be said nettles are a benefit given by nature. The composition of its leaves includes organic acids, which promote both strengthening of the whole organism as a whole, and, in particular, raising the immunity. This herb quickly restores the body after surgery, resists radiation, protects tissue suffering from a lack of oxygen.

Nettle is also used in cosmetology. It is considered an excellent remedy for dandruff and strengthens the hair. Broths from nettles are used even with baldness. Patients suffering from hair loss, it is recommended to rinse the head with decoction for 2 weeks, as a result, as a rule, the intensity of the fallout is significantly reduced.

The curative properties of nettle are widely used in modern cooking. It is added to various salads and soups.