Nettle is an unpretentious perennial plant that can be found everywhere, starting with your own garden and ending with a city park.
Translated from Latin, the name of this plant means "burning".
Avicenna spoke about the wonderful properties of this medicinal herb, who mentioned it in the “Canon of Medicine”, considering nettle to be an excellent hemostatic.
It was this property that attracted the close attention of doctors to this plant, and already from the beginning of the 16th century, nettle broth began to be used everywhere for uterine, intestinal, and pulmonary hemorrhages.
However, in the 20th century, for unknown reasons, nettle began to be forgotten as a medicinal plant, and only during the Great Patriotic War, when hemostatic drugs were especially relevant, they remembered about it again. Scientists were able to create a liquid extract - a decoction of nettle, which served a huge service in hospitals and infirmaries.
For medical purposes, almost all parts of the plant are used - leaves, rhizomes, seeds, which are collected from late May to early August. Fresh leaves, from which nettle broth is prepared, contain in large quantities formic, succinic, gallic and oxalic acids, as well as mineral salts, iron, many vitamins, carotenoids, essential oil, sitosterol, etc. These compounds are responsible for the high anti-inflammatory, antidiabetic, anemic, hemostatic and diuretic properties of the plant.
Nettle rhizomes are an excellent remedy for chronic cough, you just need to chop them finely and cook in sweet water. Take this drug several times a day.
Nettle decoction treats inflammation and diseases of the genitourinary system, spleen, liver, and bile diseases. As a rule, it is prescribed to those who have high blood sugar. This plant has a mild laxative effect on the human body, so it is especially useful for those to whom the doctor prescribed diuretics.
Nettle is popularly used as an anesthetic, which helps even with the most severe pains.
Tea or a decoction of nettle helps with bacterial infections and viruses: simply brew fresh or dried leaves of this herb in boiling water and drink all day long.
In some European countries, nettle infusion is considered an excellent tool for washing hair. The recipe for this natural “soap” is very simple: pour one hundred grams of leaves with 500 ml of vinegar and water, boil and filter for half an hour.
Traditional healers say that the periodic rubbing of nettles into the scalp and hair makes the curls healthier, thicker, and also contributes to the regeneration of the hair cut, prevents increased sebum secretion, dandruff and hair loss.
It is a good infusion of nettles to rinse your mouth from time to time - this protects the oral cavity and teeth from infection.
Many women when they approach menstruation experience discomfort, discomfort, considering this condition to be natural. In many ways, they are right - this is the destiny of the entire female sex, however, nettles help to relieve these unpleasant sensations, which, among other things, also reduces bleeding.
A decoction of nettle with menstruation has long been the most popular of folk remedies. If a woman has heavy menstruation or any other bleeding, then you need to take a liquid extract or nettle juice, which constrict the blood vessels, tone the muscles of the uterus.
If you take liquid nettle extract regularly, at least for several weeks, then in addition to the hemostatic effect, the cycle of menstruation will be normalized.
Nettle is prescribed as an auxiliary therapeutic agent for uterine fibroids.
However, like all other medicinal plants, nettle has its contraindications: it can not be consumed by those people who have high blood clotting.