What dose Nettle tea do?
The herb stinging nettle is an herb very high in vitamin K, which guards against excessive bleeding. Nettle improves kidney function and neutralizes uric acid, preventing its crystallization, aiding in its elimination from the system, thus relieving gout and arthritis. Nettle is useful as a tea for anemic children, due to its nutritive value. Nettle is also high in minerals such as iron, calcium, sulfur, sodium, copper, manganese, chromium, and silicon. Nettle is also used as an astringent to help stop bleeding and to reduce menses flow…. brilliant for nasty menses cramping and bloating too …. Nettle is also a blood purifier and assists in lowering blood pressure. Go get yourself some of the loose leaf, organic variety of the herb from the health food store and put 1 – 2 teaspoons full into a teapot and top with hot water…. leave to brew for 10 – 15 minutes. Only organic will do mate as the commercial varieties have had so much of the goodness pulverised from them that they could
