Nettle root tincture 50ml (Urtica dioica)
Ingredients: nettle root (Urtica dioica radix) and alc 45%
Content: 50ml
Nettle is a medicinal plant known since the Bronze Age. What can be said to cure all diseases, it is one of the most remarkable and yet the most despised plants of the world.
"Nettle is one of the most useful medicinal plants. If people understood how much this plant is medicinal, would plant just nettle. "
Nettle root tincture 50ml (Urtica dioica)
Nettle, stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) is herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family Urticaceae, that grows up to 150 cm high, tho there are bigger specimens. It is native to Europe, Asia, northern Africa, and western North America and introduced elsewhere. The species is divided into six subspecies, five of which have many hollow stinging hairs called trichomes on the leaves and stems, which act like hypodermic needles, injecting histamine and other chemicals that produce a stinging sensation when contacted by humans and other animals. The plant has a long history of use as a source of medicine, food, and fibre.
Nettle contains extremely high content of minerals, but primarily a lot of iron, specially this biodegradable iron, which body can use (as opposed to those who can not absorb more often, tablets). Iron is with other minerals key factor that helps in the prevention of spring fatigue. Nettle also contains plenty of potassium (along with dandelions is the biggerst source of this mineral) which is especially important for people who are on diuretics (people who use long time medicines for high blood pressure, heart, water retention, etc.) and for people who have migraine and other forms of spasm. Nettle contains large amounts of calcium, magnesium, sodium, phosphorus, magnani, wrinkles, provitamin A (which is extremely useful for bad night eyesight), vitamin B2, C and K. It may sound unbelievable but the 100 g of this amazing plant is more vitamin C than oranges or lemons! In addition to the abundance of minerals and vitamins, this miracle plant contains plenty of flavonoids, chlorophyll, enzymes, tannins, lecithin, phytosterols, mucus, wax and a multitude of other substances that have a beneficial effect on the whole body. Yet all is not rosy, nettle contains histamine and many acids and especially formic acid.
This tincture is good in care of use to massage head with bad hair.