Today we will analyze what constitutes nettle. The use of this burning herb as a valuable food product, oddly enough, is very popular. It is often used in cooking. Skillful culinary specialists prepare delicious cabbage soup from young leaves and shoots. They are also taken for the preparation of various salads, and pickled, they get a wonderful seasoning for meat dishes.
But there is another side of the nettle - healing. Here, nettle performs slightly different functions - it acts as a hemostatic (by the way, traditional medicine also recognizes this property). Even nettles have a positive effect on the blood composition, while helping to cure anemia. This herb remarkably increases blood coagulability, hemoglobin, increases platelet and red blood cell levels. It is also effective in atherosclerosis, hemorrhoids, diseases of the bladder and kidneys, tuberculosis, diseases of the gallbladder and liver. It is recommended to use nettle after suffering quite serious illnesses, as well as to strengthen immunity.
All these properties are attached to nettle by its chemical composition. It contains vitamins B6, K, C, B2, B1, A, as well as pantothenic acid, salts of calcium, iron, potassium, sulfur, sugar and proteins.
Nettle is extremely useful for diabetics, because it lowers blood sugar, helps to heal wounds and has a fairly strong diuretic effect. Nettle also helps strengthen the body and give it the strength to resist various diseases.
The use of plants in cosmetology also takes place. His most famous cosmetic effect is hair strengthening. It has long been known that nettle for hair is an ideal, wise decision. To do this, prepare an infusion: 3 table. l dried leaves are insisted in 1 cup of boiling water for about 30 minutes, then carefully filtered. This nettle infusion must be rinsed after washing it with shampoo. As a result, the hair not only strengthens, but also becomes stronger, shiny and accelerates its growth.
Nettle: application
Rummaging in the literature on traditional medicine, you will surely find many interesting recipes for reliable strengthening of the body, as well as its individual organs.
To improve the cardiovascular system, nettle leaves are used. The use of a decoction for these purposes is as follows: take 5 table. tablespoons of dried leaves, and boiled in ½ liter. water. Take this decoction 4 times a day.
If there is a stomach problem, nettle is also used. Using its roots helps relieve vomiting and painful symptoms. To prepare the product, you need to take a spoonful of well-dried roots and boil them in a glass of cow's milk. Immediately you need to drink ¼ part of it, and divide the rest into parts and drink at intervals of 2 hours. Continue until the feeling of nausea disappears. With menstruation, nettle will also help. Its use in case of painful symptoms and a broken cycle will help to restore everything and establish, relieve pain sensations.
One of the varieties of nettles is dioica nettle. The use of this species of this plant is also quite widespread. The liquid extract and the infusion of dioica nettle significantly increase blood coagulation, significantly increase hemoglobin and the number of red blood cells, have a tonic uterine musculature and a vasoconstrictor effect.
French doctors have determined that nettle is very effective in chronic and acute enteritis and in long-term diarrhea in tuberculosis patients.
Fresh young nettle, the use of which is also popular, is used for rubbing with fever and rheumatism. Juice from fresh young leaves is used in the presence of kidney and liver stones, lung diseases, paralysis and fever.
After analyzing all the properties of nettle, we can say that it is deservedly used in medicine.