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Plant Spotlight: Don't Settle, Increase Your Health and Mettle With Some Nettle (in your Kettle)
Urtica Dioica, also known as Stinging Nettle, Common Nettle, and Garden Nettle, is another highly useful weed, that more often than not, most people will find themselves pulling and discarding from unwanted spots in your garden, and suffering the well known rash that usually accompanies handling the plant sans gloves.
You probably recognize the origin of the name "Nettle", it was named after the Anglo-Saxon word for needle, because when you look at this plant, it just screams "pointy". As early as the Bronze Age, nettle was used to weave fabric, and as recently as WW1, Germans used it for the same purpose when Cotton supplies were low. It can also make a dye that will dye wool shades of yellow and green.
Shakespeare makes mention of nettle when his character Hotspur warns, " ‘Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink, but I tell you, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety" (I Henry IV, Act II Scene 3).
Nettles are an herbaceous perennial flowering plant, native to Europe, Asia, northern Africa, and North America.The plant has many hollow stinging hairs called "trichomes" on its leaves and stems, which act like needles that inject histamine, formic acid and other chemicals that produce a stinging sensation.
So why do we care about it? First off, it IS an edible. I recommend harvesting with gloves. You need to steam or boil, dry it, or grind it to rid the trichomes of their potency, and then it becomes like any other edible green. We would choose to eat it because it's packed with Vitamin K, Vitamin A, Vitamin D, Vitamin C, Calcium, Manganese, and Iron, with smaller amounts (5-15% DV or so) of Copper, Magnesium, Zinc, Phosphorus, Riboflavin, Pyridoxine, Dietary Fiber, and also contains Phytonutrients Alpha and Beta Carotene and Lutein. As an edible that you can find practically EVERYWHERE, it leaves you little excuse for starving when Bill Gates' jew handlers decide to Georgia Guidestones you.
Medicinally, it's been used to treat arthritis, gout, used as an anti-inflammatory, treating circulation disorders, asthma quite effectively (and allergies), intestinal weakness, malnutrition (and anemia, rickets, etc), and it's an effective diuretic. It's been used when prepared properly to actually treat skin rashes, not just cause them, and eczema, increase mother's milk, lower blood sugar, decreasing profuse menstruation (probably the vitamin K), and even verified by studies to reduce prostate inflammation.
This makes a great soup, and it has been used traditionally to this effect, or tea, or a nice Spring tonic to improve general health. It's a healthy addition to scrambled eggs, pasta dishes, casseroles, and young shoots can be steamed and tossed in salads. Many people juice nettle.
Nettle is truly a plant that is part of your history, and has saved many lives. Why on earth would you trade this medicine for Biktarvy?
Urtica Dioica, also known as Stinging Nettle, Common Nettle, and Garden Nettle, is another highly useful weed, that more often than not, most people will find themselves pulling and discarding from unwanted spots in your garden, and suffering the well known rash that usually accompanies handling the plant sans gloves.
You probably recognize the origin of the name "Nettle", it was named after the Anglo-Saxon word for needle, because when you look at this plant, it just screams "pointy". As early as the Bronze Age, nettle was used to weave fabric, and as recently as WW1, Germans used it for the same purpose when Cotton supplies were low. It can also make a dye that will dye wool shades of yellow and green.
Shakespeare makes mention of nettle when his character Hotspur warns, " ‘Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink, but I tell you, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety" (I Henry IV, Act II Scene 3).
Nettles are an herbaceous perennial flowering plant, native to Europe, Asia, northern Africa, and North America.The plant has many hollow stinging hairs called "trichomes" on its leaves and stems, which act like needles that inject histamine, formic acid and other chemicals that produce a stinging sensation.
So why do we care about it? First off, it IS an edible. I recommend harvesting with gloves. You need to steam or boil, dry it, or grind it to rid the trichomes of their potency, and then it becomes like any other edible green. We would choose to eat it because it's packed with Vitamin K, Vitamin A, Vitamin D, Vitamin C, Calcium, Manganese, and Iron, with smaller amounts (5-15% DV or so) of Copper, Magnesium, Zinc, Phosphorus, Riboflavin, Pyridoxine, Dietary Fiber, and also contains Phytonutrients Alpha and Beta Carotene and Lutein. As an edible that you can find practically EVERYWHERE, it leaves you little excuse for starving when Bill Gates' jew handlers decide to Georgia Guidestones you.
Medicinally, it's been used to treat arthritis, gout, used as an anti-inflammatory, treating circulation disorders, asthma quite effectively (and allergies), intestinal weakness, malnutrition (and anemia, rickets, etc), and it's an effective diuretic. It's been used when prepared properly to actually treat skin rashes, not just cause them, and eczema, increase mother's milk, lower blood sugar, decreasing profuse menstruation (probably the vitamin K), and even verified by studies to reduce prostate inflammation.
This makes a great soup, and it has been used traditionally to this effect, or tea, or a nice Spring tonic to improve general health. It's a healthy addition to scrambled eggs, pasta dishes, casseroles, and young shoots can be steamed and tossed in salads. Many people juice nettle.
Nettle is truly a plant that is part of your history, and has saved many lives. Why on earth would you trade this medicine for Biktarvy?