Nettle

Scientific name: Urtica urens.

Common name: nettle.

English name: annual nettle.

Properties: promotes prostate function.

Parts used: leaves, seeds and roots. Each part has distinct active principles with differing actions.

SEEDS: they contain fatty oil (up to 30%) of a yellow-green color, due to a high content of chlorophyll, carotenoids, tocopherol, linoleic acid and phytohormones. 

Currently it is considered a perfect herbal geriatric for its tonic and stimulating actions that increase all vital processes. In traditional popular use it is instead considered an antirheumatic remedy and cosmetic.

LEAVES: specific phyto-complex rich in minerals up to 18-20% in dry leaves. The presence of chlorophyll, vitamins C, K, and B complex, carotenoids, flavonoids (quercetin, campferol, etc.) is very important. The leaves have always been used as a purifying, remineralizing, anti-anemic and anti-rheumatic.

ROOT: a set of active ingredients, sitosterols or precursors of plant hormones, which make preparations very useful in urination disorders. The nettle root can be also used in herbal tea.