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I have taken to drinking (stinging) nettle tea. Does anyone have experience drying the nettles themselves? I was wondering if one can/should dry part of the stalk as well - when I make it from fresh nettles I just use the leaves, but some of the dried stuff I have bought looks like it has a fair amount of skinny little stalks in it as well - so I was wondering if the stalks are as beneficial as the leaves or if they are simply padding out the weight with the stalks?
Ok I'll bite what is it that you get from stinging nettle that you cant get from some other plant that doesn't cause you to break out in a rash when exposed to it?
Ok I'll bite what is it that you get from stinging nettle that you cant get from some other plant that doesn't cause you to break out in a rash when exposed to it?
LOL - I am totally into herbs (and gardening).
Stinging nettles only sting in the raw form They are delicious as a vegetable (steamed with butter (taste kinda like spinach).
The tea is super good for the bladder and kidneys! I kept getting bladder infections and started drinking nettle tea and it completely eradicated the problems.
Stinging nettles only sting in the raw form They are delicious as a vegetable (steamed with butter (taste kinda like spinach).
The tea is super good for the bladder and kidneys! I kept getting bladder infections and started drinking nettle tea and it completely eradicated the problems.
Yeah I know, TMI, but you did ask!
Cool thanks. I know about nettle. I just want to post in your thread as it looked lonely.
Cool thanks. I know about nettle. I just want to post in your thread as it looked lonely.
Its cousin the Thistle is also very good for you.
LOL - yeah - not finding too many nettle fans! Nettles also makes a wonderful organic pesticide - you just soak a bunch of nettles in a bucket with water, leave it outside for a few days, then strain the liquid off and put it in spray bottles and spray as needed on plants - it works really well! Quick, free and organic!
LOL - yeah - not finding too many nettle fans! Nettles also makes a wonderful organic pesticide - you just soak a bunch of nettles in a bucket with water, leave it outside for a few days, then strain the liquid off and put it in spray bottles and spray as needed on plants - it works really well! Quick, free and organic!
Interesting. You know human urine works well as a organic pesticide as well but I dont want to make a tea out of it. LOL
JUST KIDDING. couldnt help myself.
Seriously though I have access to fields of this stuff. I think I might just get some.
Is this the same plant that we called bull nettle in deep east Texas? I once had a horse throw me off on top of one of those and I can't imagine making a tea from it. They sting like a hundred wasp stings.
Keeping to the subject of teas, as a kid I always did like sassafras roots for making tea. The tea smells like modern root beer and I always wondered if sarsaparilla drink of the old west was the same.
Stinging nettles are used in tea by a lot of people for arthritis. Can't say if it works or not. I'm constantly trying to eradicate the stinging nettles from my farmyard.
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They are delicious as a vegetable (steamed with butter (taste kinda like spinach). 
