Nettle: medicinal properties.
This plant can be called a natural vitamin concentrate. Nettle is just a multivitamin warehouse! There are twice as much ascorbic in it as, say, in black currant and lemons, carotene is more than in the same berries of sea-buckthorn, carrots and sorrel. And 20 nettle leaves could provide our daily need for such a trace element as vitamin A. Nettle is rich in many trace elements, such as calcium, copper, magnesium, iron and others. It contains a lot of vitamins: B, E, K. Nettle leaves contain flavanoids, tannins, tannic compounds, phytoncides, glycosides, chlorophyll, organic acids. This richest set of biological components allows us to talk about a wide range of therapeutic and preventive actions of nettle. The plant helps to restore the vital functions of the organs and to normalize the work of the entire human body.
This plant contains organic acids and silicon compounds. They provide the restorative properties of nettle. Nettle can increase the body's resistance to pathogenic microflora, toxic compounds, radiation. It can boost the immune forces of the body, provide protection to our body from oxygen shortage. It helps to flow all the processes in our body without failures, it stimulates the metabolism of proteins and, of course, carbohydrates. This is the reason why doctors recommend nettle in the treatment of chronic diseases, because it is at this time that immunity decreases, and the resistance of the organism to negative influences on the part worsens.
As mentioned above, there is vitamin K in the nettle, it contributes to the use of nettle as a powerful remedy for stopping bleeding. It is able to increase blood coagulability, and also it gives the nettle an anti-inflammatory effect, due to which it is used both for external injuries and for internal bleeding: pulmonary, uterine, renal and others.
Nettle leaves contain chlorophyll in its pure form. Here it is present without other pigments. It has a powerful toning and stimulating effect on the entire body. It helps improve metabolism, increase intestinal tone, cardiac and vascular system, uterus, respiratory center. It is able to stimulate the epithelialization of damaged tissues and their granulation. This provides the nettle with a wound healing effect.
The nettle contains secretin. It is able to normalize all metabolic processes, stimulate insulin formation, which leads to a decrease in blood sugar. It is useful to know people who suffer from diabetes. There are also nettle properties of choleretic and diuretic action. This explains the use of this plant for kidney and liver diseases, lesions of the whole gastrointestinal tract and gallbladder.
Treatment with the help of nettles, tinctures and decoctions of nettle leaves.
This plant is used as an ointment. She is lubricated by skin with affected areas, wounds. This ointment is made from powdered crushed nettle leaves, petroleum jelly and grass 1-year old pepper. Wounds on the skin are smeared a couple of times a day.
If you suffer increased fattening, dandruff, hair loss, then nettle is the remedy for you! Rub the tincture of the nettle leaves into the scalp. We take tables. a spoonful of nettle leaves, brewed with boiled water (a glass), in a thermos can withstand hours 1, 5 and filter through cheesecloth. We rub into the skin once a week, but for a long time.
Nettle can be a vitamin remedy, which can normalize the metabolism with such a disease as anemia. A couple of spoons of flowers or nettle leaves are poured over with boiling water (a glass), we insist 15 minutes. Through gauze, we filter everything. It is necessary to take this remedy for a couple of glasses of 3 times a day on an empty stomach.
If you have a weak coagulability of blood, then you need to take 2 tablespoons of nettle leaves and brew with boiled water (a glass). We keep everything on the fire for 10 minutes, wait until it cools down, filter through a sieve or gauze. We drink up to five times a day on a spoon.
If the bleeding started, then such a decoction will help. Spoon the nettle leaves brewed with boiling water (a glass). We keep on fire for about 10 minutes. We cool it and strain it through gauze. We drink up to five times a day. Or another recommendation: 2 tablespoons of leaves of the plant are brewed with two glasses of boiled water, we stand in the thermos for an hour and filter through a sieve. We drink half a cup a couple of times a day.
To strengthen hair and accelerate growth, you can prepare an infusion of 100 gr. nettles (leaves), previously shredded, filled with half a spoonful of vinegar and half a liter of water. All must be cooked (30 min.), As usual: cool and, of course, drain. Tincture rub into the roots.
The prescription of strengthening hair with nettle "Bulgarian". The broth should be washed before going to bed. Do not use soap. Composition: crushed nettle leaves-100 gr. , half a spoonful of vinegar, a half liter of water. Cook, cool, squeeze.
Nettle broth for rheumatism and gout. Take a spoonful of leaves, add the boiled water (glass), wrap it and stand for 60 minutes. Through gauze filter. We drink on a spoon up to 4 times a day for 30 minutes before lunch.
If you have a chronic cough, you need to cut the leaves of the nettle and boil it in syrup from sugar, drink it in a spoonful. Or, you can dilute 1 pinch of leaves with 2 cups of boiled water, in a thermos for an hour, drink, strain, like tea.
Nettle well anesthetizes. By the number of parts: nettle (1), buckthorn (1). Mix and add a liter of water (boiled), heat for 10 minutes, stand for 30 minutes, strain, drink on the cup up to 4 times.
The nettle broth affects the general well-being of a person. To improve it, make a decoction. Take the nettle nettle (grams 200), pour the vodka (0, 5 lit.), stop the bottle with gauze. Keep the day in the world and another 8 in the dark. Filter, as usual, squeeze. We drink before lunch on a spoon and before going to bed. It is necessary to drink the whole bottle.