Salubrious Health Benefits Of The Nettle Herb

20 04 2009

The latin name of this wonderful nettle herb is Urtica dioica. It provides various kinds of benefits that can be used for the treatment of allergies such as hayfever. While the leaves of this herb help to cure many ailments when blended with food products for direct consumption, the roots of the nettle herb are helpful to increase the protein in the blood.

Stinging nettle leaves help cure allergies like hayfever

Stinging nettle leaves help cure allergies like hayfever

Nettle leaves are easily ignored these days or at the very least not given due importance because it grows in plenty in the gardens and also as its cultivation is not a tough thing. In fact no need of any conventional cultivation is required. Just one or two nettle plants planted in the garden will within three months become crowds of this herb. But when we look at the uses of this little herb plant nettle it is highly amazing. Particularly for treating the allergy or allergic fever, nettle leaves or nettle extract are more effective than most other medicines.


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Nettle tea is very useful for building a healthy intestine curing the weaknesses that might have surfaced through improper food habits, diarrhea or malnutrition. This herb is also beneficial to cure kidney weakness or bladder weakness because this acts as a diuretic.

Nettle leaves have to be boiled in water and the extract is filtered. This extract can then be consumed with little jaggery, for cleaning the digestive system. This will help to remove the excess fluid in the body.

Nettle leaves juice can be effective in healing arthritis and gout. Uric acid, the product of digestive protein, gets accumulated in the joints and tissues leading to an inflammatory condition causing pain. This inflammatory condition is called gout. Nettle juice consumption thrice or four times a day will eliminate the Uric acid and give relief to these painful problems. Nettle herb has the property of stinging and this stinging is the main reason by which it cures the inflammation and also for curing eczema.

Nettles consist of vital nutrients like vitamin D (very rarely found in plants), vitamin C and vitamin A, apart from minerals like iron, calcium, magnesium and phosphorus. All this makes that the nettle herb help in adding nutrition for the weak people because this can be cooked like spinach either individually or with any kind of pulses or grains and can be consumed.

The juice of the Nettle leave can be mixed with any fruit juice for the consumption of the people affected by AIDS and Cancer. This boosts some level of immunity in the body.

The dried roots of this nettle plant are powdered and the resulting extracts are consumed to promote protein in the blood simultaneously reducing the sex hormones that are unbound, which affects the body tissues.


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The nettle leaves paste is applied to the hair as a shampoo, which acts as instant dandruff remover.

Because of their infamous sting, nettles require gloved hands and a long-sleeved shirt for harvesting. The finely toothed leaves growing on its two foot stems are covered with downy hair and sharp spines. Each spine is a hollow needle filled with venom. If you touch the plant, the venom feels like a bee sting and produces a red rash.

The venomous qualities of the stinging nettle are destroyed by cooking and drying, so no need to worry if you include this excellent plant in your herbal medicine cabinet. Gathering it yourself would be quite uncomfortable, but that’s why we have the Internet.


Organic Nettle Leaf

Organic Nettle Leaf

If you suffer from allergy or hayfever then, don’t hesitate and try out nettle herb or nettle leaves. I am sure that you will experience considerable relief pretty soon.



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4 09 2009
sonia

this site help me in the search of finding cure for my 6 ys. old son. thank you for the inforomation . i am going to a herb store to get this stinging nettle plant and plant it in my bvack yard

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