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What is it?

The dried leaves of Nettles, a remarkably nutrient-rich herb which has acrid components in its stinging hairs such as formic acid and histamine.

How has it been used?

Nettles are a traditional spring tonic for people that had become depleted and deficient through winter. Similarly Nettles has long been used to boost and enrich milk supply in both humans and animals and Nettles were traditionally used with Raspberry leaf as a pregnancy tonic to avoid anemia and support healthy growth.

Nettles is recognized as one of the great cleansing herbs and has been widely used for the treatment of rheumatism, gout, kidney stones and chronic skin diseases, especially eczema.

Nettles were used directly for severe joint pain where they would take fresh stinging nettle and liberally roll and rub the herb over the affected areas. That would hurt, a lot, and youcan be sure that no-one would have done this if it did not help considerably.

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Personal experiences

I use Nettles as part of tea and tincture formulae that work to cleanse the body, especially when people are stuck with chronic skin, joint or gut problems. Nettles are intensely cleansing and nutritive.

Nettles combines with Raspberry leaf in pregnancy and it works perfectly with Alfalfa for anaemia.

~ Allergy Tea

150gms Nettles                               
150gms Elder flower      
100gms Sage leaf            
100gms Eyebright           
25gms - Peppermint  

These are bulk amounts to give you the proportions, make much less for personal use.

The dose is 3 full teaspoons into one large cup of freshly boiled water. You cover the cup and let it sit for 10 minutes before straining it off (you could use a tea-pot or coffee plunger etc to do the infusion). It is ok to add honey and you need to sip the tea whilst it is still hot to get all the benefits.

I have a high success rate with seasonal hay-fever and hives using this formula.. Don’t expect the tea to work immeditely like an anti-histamine but most people do start obviously responding to the treatment if they have at least one dose a day for at least three days.

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Excerpt from Felter & Lloyd's Kings Dispensatory from 1898

Nettles are astringent, tonic, and diuretic. A decoction is valuable in diarrhoea and dysentery, with profuse discharges, and in hemorrhoids, various hemorrhages, and scorbutic affections, and has been recommended in febrile affections, gravel, and other nephritic complaints. The leaves of the fresh plant stimulate, inflame, and even raise blisters on those portions of the skin with which they come in contact, and have, in consequence, been used as a powerful rubefacient. Paralysis is said to have been cured by whipping the affected limbs with them. Applied to bleeding surfaces, they are an excellent styptic. Some physicians prescribe the remedy internally at the same time that they are using it locally. It is also a remedy for chronic cystitis, with mucous discharges. Warts, rubbed with the freshly expressed juice of this plant, 3 or 4 times a day, continuing the application daily for 10 or 12 days, disappear without any pain being produced

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