Nettle MAYOR

urtica dioica

Nettle MAYOR
urtica dioica

English: Nettle.

French: Orti / dïoique Orti.

From the family of Urticáceas.

Excellent diuretic. Impurities from the skin. Digestions weak. Respiratory colds. Disorders of the matrix. Arthritis. Hemorrhoids. Diarrhea. Bleeds. Diabetes. Hives caused by seafood.

External use: macerated in alcohol, in hair lotions (fall and dandruff.

Fortunately, their venom is not lethal, but just a single drop of liquid stinging for 'sting' 50 times. The hairs that cover leaves and stems are able to cross dresses to reach the skin, nailed it and download its toxicity.

Stems of nettles with their heads in the form of panicles. The whole plant is covered with stinging pelillos, which are opened and poured its contents into formic acid to produce the injury.

The clumps of nettles growing in wet and trails among bushes.

Note herbaceous perennial plant of pasta and half a meter tall stalk of green, branched, fibrous and squared - section: if we try to break it with your hands (with gloves) was "fraying" over its entire length. The leaves, oval, finished puma, toothed, is available on the stems of four on four, forming knots that are inserted in the other four hanging flower stalk. The stem and leaves are completely covered with stinging hairs that are nailed to contact with the skin to inject a liquid irritant: The grief is immediate and very annoying (like the bite of a mosquito)

LOCATION: This is a plant that develops in virtually any corner of the northern hemisphere, with the sole condition that it is inhabited by people. She lives next to the houses, attached to the walls, along roads and adjacent to the landfill sites.

COLLECTION: Leaves and stems can be cut at any time of year, their hands protected with thick gloves.

USES AND APPLICATIONS: In the Middle Ages were fighting rheumatism with nettles as a very original way: it ravaged the patient with one or more branches on the affected area. I also thought that the effects purifiers got wallow on the grass. E Xll and xvll centuries, when cotton was not used in Europe, was used fiber of the stems to produce a sort of muslin (the muslin cloth is a little thin dense that was manufactured in Mosul, Iraq, in India and in Persia) As haemostatic (to stop bleeding) applied to the wound with the juice obtained by grinding the plant. The best way is to use the nettle comiéndola like vegetable hirviéndola for about 20 minutes. Suitable for diabetics and to assist digestion. The resulting from the boiling water should not be discarded, because it is useful as an antidiarrheal or to invigorate the body (can take three cups a day)

Used Part.

Sumidades the air and roots. Under the heading of nettle are used both the Urtica dioica (stinging nettle largest) as Urtica urens L. nettle lower)

Active Principles.

Leaves, fresh plant: Chlorophyll a and b (2, 5 - 3%) carotenoids (beta - carotene) Flavonoid derivatives quercetol, kenferol and ramnetol. Minerals (iron, calcium, silica, sulfur, potassium, manganese) Organic acids (caféico, chlorogenic, gallic, formic, acetic) provitamin A. Mucilages. Escopoletósido. Sitosterol. In the trichomes (stinging hairs) acetylcholine, histamine, serotonin (5 - hidroxitriptamina)

Roots: Tannins. Phytosterols: beta - sitosterol. Ceramides. Fenilpropanos. Lignano. Polyphenols. Monoterpendioles. Agglutinins of Urtica dioica (lectin) Polysaccharides: glucan, glucogalacturonanas, arabinogalactan. Escopoletósido.

Seeds: mucilage, protein, oil (30%) with a high content of linoleic acid. Tocopherols.

Drug Action.

Leaves, fresh plant: restorative, remineralizing, diuretic (promotes the elimination of chloride and urea, uric acid) colagoga, hemostatic, slightly hypotensive and hypoglycemic. In external use is rubefaciente, analgesic, used also for its astringent power in Skin and mucous membranes. The fresh leaves are highly topical application in rubefacientes.

Roots: anti - inflammatory, with a antiadenomatosa (inhibits 5 - alpha - reductase) astringent.

Seeds: Used popularly as galactagogo, astringent, and the oil, as emollient.

Indications.

Leaves: States that require an increase in urine output: genitourinary disorders (cystitis, ureteritis, urethritis, pyelonephritis, oliguria, urolithiasis) prostatitis, benign prostate adenoma, hiperazotemia, hyperuricemia, gout, high blood pressure, edema, overweight accompanied by fluid retention, edema by inadequacies of venous return.

Diabetes, anemia, vitamin deficiency or mineral convalescence.

Hepatobiliary dyskinesias, cholecystitis, diarrhea.

In topical use: osteo inflammations, seborrheic dermatitis, stomatitis, pharyngitis, vulvovaginitis.

Root: dysuria, frequency, voiding disorders associated with benign prostate adenoma (Grade I and II of Alken)

His job as rubefaciente (stinging) for the treatment of rheumatic pain is in disuse.

Contraindications.

Do not prescribe oral dosage forms with alcohol content to children under two years or consultants in the process of alcohol addiction.

Side Effects.

The decocto roots can irritate the gastric mucosa.

The intake of 20 - 30 seeds produces a laxative effect drastic.

Caution / Poisoning.

The fresh plant has a highly irritating to the skin (stinging) with production of a wheal burning.

Its use as a diuretic in the presence of hypertension, heart disease or kidney failure moderate or severe, should be done only by prescription and under medical supervision, to the danger that can result in uncontrolled contribution of liquids, the possibility of an uncompensated tension.

When prescribing for patients with diabetes, the doctor should monitor blood sugar levels to adjust, if necessary, the dose of insulin or oral agents.

Take into account the alcohol content of the fluid extract and tincture.

Galenica forms / Dosage.

Sheets, internal use:

Decoction (leaves) a spoonful of soup bowl. Boil three minutes, infuse for 20. Three or more cups a day.

Fluid extract (1: 1) 50 drops three to six times a day.

Tincture (1: 10) 50 - 100 drops, three or more times a day.

Dry extract (5: 1) 0. 5 - 1 g per day.

Syrup (10% extract fluid) 1 to 3 tablespoons a day.

Juice of fresh plant: 10 - 15 ml, three to six times a day.

Sheets, topical use:

Decoction: 100 g / l, boil 30 minutes. Apply in the form of baths, towels, gargarismos, mouthwashes, vaginal irrigations, friction on the scalp, and so on.

Juice of fresh plant embedded in a cotton against epistaxis, or in the form of incontinence, in rheumatic disorders.

Roots (treatment of benign prostate adenoma)

Decoction (roots) 50 g / l, boil 10 minutes. 4 cups per day.

Dry extract (5: 1) 0. 5 - 1 g per day.

Fluid extract (1: 1) 50 drops, one to three times a day.

Tincture (1: 5) 50 - 100 drops, one to three times a day.

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