Stinging Nettle-Urtica dioica

Nettles are healing and useful in a variety of ways: soups, infusions and fermented.

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[wintersolstice84]

Thank you Susun for all the new videos! I am in need to a bit of clarification, when older nettle is no longer good to eat, are they still good to harvest for drying (and then make infusions with)? Or is it still better to dry the younger parts? Thank you!

[wisewomantradition]

Stinging Nettle Hair Tonic

Thickens hair texture, helps eliminate dandruff, aids in preventing hair

loss during chemotherapy and restores hair growth afterwards.

1/2 oz. dried nettle*

2 cups boiling water

1 Tbs. nettle root tincture

* leaf, stalk, and/or seed

Pour boiling water over nettle in jar, cover tightly and let sit overnight. Next morning, strain into a plastic bottle, and add tincture. Keeps only a day or two. Use as rinse after shampoo and conditioner, leaving it in hair

[wisewomantradition]

Nettle Hair Lotion

Mild enough for everyday use.

4 oz. fresh nettle or

1 oz. dried nettle

4 cups water

1/4 cup vinegar

3 drops rosemary or

3 drops lavender oil

Prepare infusion of nettle. Strain out plant material. Add oil and vinegar to infusion. Keep in refrigerator between uses.

Nettle Infusion: Place 1 oz. dried nettle into a quart/liter jar. Fill the jar to the top with boiling water, put the lid on and let it steep for at least four hours at room temperature.

[NWforager]

baby learns valuable lesson , stinging nettle is aptly named.

[bluesdog88]

I think the kid stung himself ;)

[Jason2da]

does kid know you smoke that cannabis??

[dghergich]

Yes, I'm allergic. I had to go and get shots to stop the irritation. It never stopped itching and burning for two weeks and in fact created raised pink lines up and down my arms and legs.

[callum12321232]

How do you prepare the nettle for smoking?

[TheSoulAssassin20]

@dghergich Are you sure your allergic? When you touch the plants it injects folic acid into you through little hairs which cause stinging and irritation.

[SCENARIOBABY]

hi wisewomantradition I love your shirt and patch of stinging nettles

[dghergich]

I think that I am allergic to Stinging nettle, Do you know if it can be used in oral contraceptives? I had heard that could be possible.

[elmagicocom]

Respect to urtica dioica, you must be crazy to consider it a weed.

[toddz1972]

Can you smoke it?