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What is This Extraordinary Powerhouse Nature’s Plant that Burns and Heals?
Is it a Weed, A Nutraceutical with Pharmological Benefits or Is It Another Nature’s Miracle Food?
Today for supper I will feast at the table of Nature’s Bounty with an amazing weed steamed and fried in butter, little salt and pepper, tasting like spinach but nuttier with a woodsy flavor. I will enjoy feeding my cells with vitamins, minerals, protein, iron, fats, amino acids, polyphenols and carotenoids pigments.
Have you heard of Stinging Nettles?
Earlier, I picked this powerhouse plant wearing thick gloves and scissors to avoid its stinging hair-like barbs that can cause rashes, swelling, numbness and itchiness because of chemicals found at the base of the fine hairs acting like small needles on the skin.
Indeed, many times in the picking I have accidently touched this nettle feeling its burning irritation for hours being sure not to scratch the area so as not to push the chemicals further into the skin, extending the numbness for days. I should have remembered to wear socks to protect my ankles.
What are Stinging Nettles?
Its scientific name, Urtica dioica, comes from the Latin word uro, which means “to burn,” because its…
