NETTLE LEAF

NETTLE LEAF

The Nettle Leaf is widely spread over the world and consist of about 500 species, mainly tropical, though several occur widely in temperate climates. It's imported from Europe, but now naturalized here, the common stinging nettles the Utica diocia, can grow as high as seven feet, and the smaller Urtica urens are fixtures in Western herbal medicine. Nettle is an herb with at least five distinct internal uses. Because is is a mild, food like plant, it is well tolerated, and widely useful. Also nettle is a traditional food. The leaves are consumed as a spinach like vegetable leaf throughout Europe. Nettle leaf is remarkably nutritious. Nettle leaf is a very effective herb for the lungs, and would fairly appear on a top 10 list of general lung remedies. Nettle root is being recognized as an effective medicine for the prostate. Nettle root has a complicated, but measurable, effect on human sex hormones. it has shown the benefit of this herb in inflammatory conditions of the prostate, including benign prostatic hyperplasia.

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