Ideal Sea Minerals with added Stinging Nettle is a balance of minerals and special herbs which will help your internal organs to function better at the same time boosting your immune system. It will help your body get back on track.
Stinging Nettle
Stinging Nettle
Stinging nettle has been used for centuries to treat rheumatism, eczema,
arthritis, gout, and anemia. Many people use it to treat the early
stages of an enlarged prostate, for urinary tract infections, kidney
stones, hay fever, and in compresses and creams to treat joint pain,
sprains and strains, tendonitis, insect bites and rheumatoid arthritis.
With distinctive yellow, widely spreading roots it is a herbaceous
perennial, growing to 1-2 m tall.
The soft green leaves are 3-15 cm long, with a strongly serrated margin,
a cordate base and an acuminate tip. Both the leaves and the stems are
covered with brittle, hollow, silky hairs that were thought to contain
formic acid as a defence against grazing animals. Recent research has
revealed the cause of the sting to be from three chemicals - a histamine
to irritate the skin, acetylcholine to bring on a burning sensation and
serotonin to encourage the other two chemicals (Elliott 1997).
It is abundant in northern Europe and much of Asia. It is less frequent
in southern Europe and North Africa. It can be found in Canada and the
USA (excepting Hawaii and South Carolina) and also occurs in Mexico.
In the UK it has a strong association with human habitation and
buildings. Sites of long abandoned buildings can often be deduced from
the presence of nettles. This is believed to relate to elevated levels
of phosphate in soils from human and animal waste. This is particularly
evident in Scotland where the sites of crofts razed to the ground during
the Highland Clearances can still be identified.