NETTLE

Folium Urticae

This is a herbaceous annual plant which blooms on May-August months, 20-100 cm in length and grows up some roadsides and  near walls. Its stem is erect and has caustic hairs on it. The stalked  leaves are oval shaped and toothed and their upside is  dark green coated with  caustic hairs.  Fruits are brown coloured and look like hazelnuts and its seeds has a fatty stock. It has a glycoside called as urtic acid and nitrates in leaves. Even though  it’s recorded that  caustic hairs contain formic acid, they  also have essence fluid that includes acetylcholine and histamine. It used to be used for rheumatism and sciatic. The infusion prepared from leaves used against balding

USES:

-10 gr. Common nettle seeds are taken orally  with a spoon of tragacanth salt it heals cancer and diseases like leprosies and psoriasis that has malignant wounds. For the same purpose the water is drunk after boiling. 

- In  bulges near ear ; its seeds and leaves should be applied by preparing a mush of them.

- The seeds  can be boiled with  grapes juice and if one tablespoon of this sherbet is drunk everyday ; it increases the   sexual power, affects as an expectorant and mucolytic.

- In inflamed wounds , blains, lupus and muscle diseases; if common nettle is pounded in a mortar and converted to a paste and applied as a mash it heals this diseases.

-In case of nose bleeding; dust of its leaf  stops bleeding if taken as a snuff.

- In case of descensus of uteri, it is used as a mash.

-When its seeds mixed with honey and eaten, it increases the sexual power and facilitates giving birth by relaxing the vaginal  muscles.

-The water derived by boiling converted to a syrup by mixing with honey; stops shortage of breath when a little glass of it is drunk  everyday.

- When it’s mash is applied to  people who have articular rheumatism, intra articular inflammations; it comforts the patient by ending the inflammation.

-When it’s boiled  and drunk with barleymeal it affects like and expectorant and cleans the nasal passages.

-When its water  mixed with honey and vinegar it heals spleen, stops kidney pains, lubricates intestines and shows carminative effects.

-Daily oral usage of 3 gr seeds dissolves kidney and bladder stones. Comforts the patient by letting the coated blood out.

-Destroys the warts when cauterized with its wood.

-In costive problems, if  a glass of  water extracted by boiling is drunk everyday ; it comforts the patient by cutting chronic costive.

-It stops pains sourced from bladder combustions when it’s drunk after boiling with water.

-It causes discharging of sweat, menses and urine when it’s drunk by boiling.

-When it’s drunk by boiling it expels out the   poisonous matters, helps getting rid of tiredness especially in breast feeding women.

-Turns on sexual power, cleans out  the stomach and respiratory tract. Opens the vessels of spleen and liver.

- Common nettle seeds with myrrh helps to start menses if it is used as suppository. 

-If it’s mashed leaf is placed  it deodorises vaginal smell.

-In case  of being bitten by a dog; it is placed o wound area with some salt.

-If common nettle is boiled and  drunk with liquorice it heals bladder diseases.

-When common nettle seeds are boiled and drunk  with celery seeds ; this mixture really increases the libido.

-Placing the powder of  its seeds and leaves on malignant and cancerous wounds triggers a healing process.

-When its juice used as a gargle  it helps to heal swelling of  uvula.

 

NIGELLA SEED

 Nigella sativa

Increases urine and breast milk excretion whets the appetite and  helps starting period in women. 

 

NUTMEG
Myristicae

Used especially against stomach ache as carminative and antiseptic.