of urtica dioica.

Stinging nettle (Urtica dioica)Herbaceous perennial with a long creeping rhizome and erect quadrangular stem height of 100 to 150 cm. The leaves are opposite, petiolate, ovate-lanceolate, covered with stinging hairs. Each mature plant armed with about ten million stinging hairs. The flowers are small, greenish, collected in the spike inflorescence. The fruits - small nuts. It blooms from June to September.
Leaves contain many vitamins, as a kind of natural multivitamin concentrate vitamins K, and B2, carotene (14-30 mg / 100 g), ascorbic acid (100 to 200 mg / 100 g), and pantothenic acid. It also is 17% protein, 10% starch, about 1% sugar, many iron salts and potassium. Fruits detected up to 22% of a fatty oil. Used to treat the leaves and rhizomes with roots. The leaves are harvested throughout the summer, and rhizomes -late autumn. Nettle has hemostatic, wound healing, stimulating, tonic, vitaminizing action. It increases metabolism, increases the tone of the uterus, bowel, cardiovascular and respiratory systems, improves blood composition, strengthens cartilage, promotes renewal of the mucous membranes, removes from the body of the excess sugar, soothes rheumatic pain, cleanses the body of toxins, reduces allergic reactions .
AVITAMINOSIS
Pour 2 tablespoons of dry powdered nettle leaves 1 cup boiling water and infuse for 15-20 minutes, drain. Take 1 tablespoon 3 times a day.
CARDIAC ASTHMA
Take 1/2 tablespoon of young nettle leaves, 1 tablespoon of young leaves and quinoa leaves reeds. Mix and crushed leaves, pour 1 cup boiling water, leave, wrapped, for 2 hours, add 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda, stir and insist 10 days in a warm light. Take 1 teaspoon 1 times a day for 30 minutes before meals for 3-4 weeks.
GASTRITIS
Pour 1 tablespoon of dried nettle leaves 1 cup boiling water, boil for 10 minutes on low heat, cool, strain. Take 1 tablespoon 4-5 times a day.
HEMORRHOIDS
Take 2 tablespoons of leaves and roots nettle pour 1 liter of boiling water, put on fire and boil for 15 minutes, drain. Take 1 cup in the morning on an empty stomach and at night before going to bed.
HYPERTENSION
Pour 1 tablespoon of crushed leaves Nettle add in glass of boiled water, 30 minutes. Take 1/4 cup 4 times a day for half an hour before meals. The course of treatment are two weeks , then take a break for 5 days to start a second course of treatment. Infusion helps initially disease.
HEADACHE
Pour 3 tablespoons chopped nettle leaves 2 cups of water and boil for 2-3 minutes. Infuse for 1 hour. Take 1/2 cup during the day.
CHOLELITHIASIS
Squeeze the juice from the leaves of nettle. Take 1/4 cup of juice 2-3 times daily or 1 tablespoon every 2 hours.
LIVER DISEASE
Pour 1 tablespoon chopped nettle leaves 1 cup boiling water, leave for 30 minutes. Take 1/2 cup 1 time a day for a month. Pour 4 tablespoons of crushed leaves 0.5 liters of water, boil for 5 minutes, drain. In broth diluted with 1 tablespoon of honey and drink hot 1/2 cup 4 times a day.
STROKE
Take 20 grams of crushed nettle pour 1 liter of boiling water, put on fire and boil for 10 minutes. Insist night, filter. Take 1/2 cup 3 times a day.
CARDIAC ISCHEMIA
Pour 0.5 liters of boiling water 5 tablespoons of dried and chopped herbs nettle collected before flowering, and boil for 5 minutes on low heat. Take with honey or sugar 1/2 cup 4 times a day.
Pour 15 g of crushed roots of nettle 1 cup boiling water, simmer on low heat for 10 minutes, for 30 minutes. Take 2-3 tablespoons 2-3 times a day 30 minutes before meals for 3-4 weeks.
COUGH
Brew 2-4 tbsp of nettle seeds 0.5 liters of boiling water and infuse overnight in a thermos. Drink 1/2 cup 3-4 times a day or more often, but in smaller portions. You can brew 1 cup boiling water 2 tablespoons nettle root, heat on low heat for 5 minutes, for 30 minutes. Take too. Fresh roots of nettle finely chopped and boiled in sugar syrup. Take 1 tablespoon several times a day in chronic cough.
Pour 1 tablespoon of minced root nettle 1 cup boiling water, keep in a boiling water bath for 15 minutes, cooled at room temperature, strain, sweeten with honey. Drink 1/2 cup 4-6 times a day 30 minutes before meals with strong attacks of coughing.
Pour 1 teaspoon of flowers of nettle 0.5 liters of boiling water, leave, encased 20-30 minutes, drain. Drink as a tea for the liquefaction and expectoration of sputum.
Urticaria, ALLERGY
Pour 1 tablespoon dried or fresh flowers of nettle 1 cup boiling water. Insist, wrapped, 30 minutes, drain. Take 1/2 cup 4-5 times a day, or 1 glass 3 times a day in the form of heat.
Bleeding gums
Pour 1 tablespoon chopped nettle leaves 1 cup boiling water, leave for 30 minutes, drain. Take the form of infusion of 1/2 cup 3 times daily after meals.
FEVER
Take 2 tablespoons of ground roots of nettles, and 1 clove of garlic, which is also necessary to grind. Pour 1 cup vodka. Infuse for 6-7 days, strain. Take 1 teaspoon 3 times a day or rub the patient.
ANEMIA
When anemia is recommended to eat soup from young nettle tops, fresh or dried: 1 handful of herbs to 1 liter of water.
Uterine bleeding, heavy menstruation
Squeeze the juice from the fresh leaves of nettles. Take 1 teaspoon 3 times a day for 20 minutes before eating, spreading juice 1/2 cup water.
Mix in equal proportions, nettle leaves, grass shepherd's purse, horsetail. Take 1 teaspoon of the mixture, pour 1 cup of water at room temperature, insist 8 hours and drain, add 1/2 cup of boiling water. Take 1/2 cup 2 times a day.
METABOLIC DISEASE
Pour 1 tablespoon of dried nettle leaves 1 cup boiling water, leave for 10 minutes, drain. Take 1 tablespoon 3 times a day.
POOR Lactation
Squeeze the juice from the fresh leaves of nettles, and dilute it with water at a ratio of 1: 2, bring to a boil, cool. Take 1-2 teaspoons 3 times a day with meals.
Pour 1 tablespoon of dry powdered nettle leaves 1 cup boiling water and infuse for 10 minutes. Take 1 tablespoon 3 times a day.
Nephritis, pyelonephritis
Pour 1-2 tablespoons of dried nettle leaves and 1 cup of boiled water, in a water bath for 15 minutes. Take 1/2 cup before meals 3 times a day.
Take equal parts of nettle leaves and flowers of calendula. Pour 1 tablespoon of the collection and 1 cup of boiling water. Take 1/2 cup 3-4 times a day, 1 hour after meals.
INCREASED blood sugar
Take equal parts of nettle leaves, blueberry leaves, grass Hypericum perforatum. Pour 1 tablespoon of the mixture of 1.5 cups of hot water, boil for 5 minutes, leave for at least 30 minutes, drain. Take 1/2 cup  for 3 -4 times a day before meals for a month. Instead, St. John's wort can also use the dandelion leaves and grass knotweed.
Take 2 tablespoons of chopped nettles and pour it into 1 cup of yogurt. Drink 1-2 glasses a day.
DIARRHEA
Mix 1 teaspoon of leaves of nettle and blackberry leaves, pour 1.5 cups of boiling water, leave in a warm place for 2 hours. Drink 1 / 3-1 / 2 cup 3-4 times a day.
RHEUMATISM
Squeeze the juice from the fresh leaves of nettles. Take 1/2 cup of juice with 1 tablespoon honey 3 times a day.
Thrombophlebitis
Pour 1 tablespoon of nettle leaves and 1 cup of boiling water for 40 minutes, drain. Drink 1 -2 tablespoons 3-4 times a day before meals. It should be a diet: do not eat meat, fish, and fried foods.
TUBERCULOSIS
Mix 1 tablespoon of nettle leaves and roots, pour 0.5 liters of boiling water, heat on low heat for 5 minutes, insist 30 minutes and strain. Drink 1/4 cup 3-4 times a day for 30 minutes before eating. You can also prepare individually decoctions of the leaves and roots of the nettle.
Blurred vision
Take daily 30 g of fresh leaves and young shoots of nettles in any form.
Enterocolitis
Take 2 parts nettle 1 part alder  buckthorn bark and yarrow. Pour 2 tablespoons of the mixture in  1 glass of  boiling water, leave for 1 hour, cool, drain, bring the volume of liquid boiled water to 200 ml. Take 1/3 cup in the morning and at night.
CERVICAL EROSION
Squeeze the juice from the fresh leaves of nettles, moisten a cotton swab in it, which is inserted into the vagina for 5-10 minutes.
Oily seborrhea, hair loss
Mix 0.5 liters of olive oil and 2 tablespoons of nettles and burdock (roots) and to insist 14 days. Strain, rub into the scalp. Rinse hair should be acidified with vinegar or lemon water.
Pour 2 tablespoons chopped nettle leaves 1 cup boiling water, leave for 10 minutes, drain and rinse your head after washing.
Prepare the infusion of nettle leaves at 1:10. The resulting infusion to connect with water and vinegar, taking them in the ratio of 1: 5: 5. Rinse after washing the head 2-3 times a week. The course of treatment - 10 procedures.
WOUNDS
Fill in half-liter jar of fresh nettle leaves, pour it 70 per cent alcohol and infuse for 2 weeks. Treat the wound with tincture or make cold compresses.
When bleeding from the wound applying fresh, boiling water scalded nettle leaves.
RHEUMATISM
Fresh nettle whip sore spots. You can alternate: one day whip sore spots nettles, the next day to rub them with kerosene.
SPURS
The leaves and roots of the nettle pound, apply at night to the Spurs, before bed legs steamed in hot water with the needles of spruce and sea salt (1 tablespoon at a foot bath).