Stinging Nettle Remedy

Posted on June 16, 2009
Category: health | 2 Comments

My apologies first of all for not posting for a while here at Alternative Cures, but I’ve become so widely spread lately that its getting hard to get round all my blogs like I used to be able to! Still, at least when I do post, its quality!

This time around, I want to re-visit an aspect of alternative health that I touched on almost two years ago and that involves the use of the humble stinging nettle. To many, this invasive weed is something to be stamped out of one’s garden, but to a true gardener, and us natural health aficionados, it is an all rounder that possesses many healing properties as well as being useful to the gardener as a compost activator and producer of liquid plant feed for free! But that’s for another blog…

Plenty of people are finding this blog looking for a stinging nettle remedy and while my original post went some way into it, there is more to tell. Of course that depends upon whether you’re looking for a remedy that makes use of the stinging nettle in some way, or you’re looking for a cure to the actual sting from the plant!

Well, I can tell you that while the sting from the plant is irritating in the extreme for a short while, it soon dies down of its own accord, although rubbing a dock leaf that you will often find growing nearby into the area of the sting will sooth it. Other remedies for the sting include vinegar (a great all round sting calming liquid), Aloe Vera or am infusion made from the nettle tops themselves!

So on to other uses for this incredible plant.

Burns. The juice extracted from the plant makes a good soothing and healing balm for burns

Cuts. The juice of the stinging nettle is stringent and therefore useful in staunching bleeding in wounds.

Insect Bites. Again the plant juice acts as an antihistamine and helps to nullify bee and wasp stings as well as sings from the plant’s own stingers!

Of course, there is more information which you will find by visiting the older post on stinging nettles in this blog here: Stinging Nettles for the rest of the info!

Ok, at the start of this post, I did say quality and not quantity. Right now I simply do not have time for one of my epic thousand word plus posts, so this smaller one will have to do just so that you know that I’m still here and this blog is still being updated!

See you again sometime (soon I hope!)

Terry Didcott
Alternative Cures

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2 Responses to “Stinging Nettle Remedy”

  1. luke on June 21st, 2009 11:04 pm

    how do you get the juice and is there any remidies using the leaves

  2. tel on June 25th, 2009 2:06 pm

    Luke, the juice is best bought from a herbalist store, although you can do it yourself using a juicing machine if you have one. The stinging nettle leaves have lots of uses, especially in making tea, soups and stews

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