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Common Name: STINGING NETTLE
Scientific Name: Urtica dioica
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Description:
  • Perennial
Culinary Uses:
  • Cook leaves like spinach
  • Soup
Parts Used:
  • Leaves and flowering tops
  • Fine hair on leaves and stems cause skin irritation.
  • Use gloves to harvest.
  • Cure - apply Bulbine juice
Medicinal Uses. It is said that:
  • Nutritional supplement.
  • Rich in calcium, potassium, iron, flavonoids
  • High Vitamin C content - help body absorbs iron properly
  • Rheumatism, arthritis, gout
  • Natural diuretic - cleanse system
  • Prevent and treat kidney gravel
  • Roots treat enlarged prostate
  • Analgesic (pynstillend)
  • Anti-inflammatory
  • Tonic for debilitated conditions (verswaktes) and anaemia
  • Stop nose bleeds
  • Hayfever, asthma, eczema, itchy skin

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