Purify Your Blood, Boost Your Immune System And Stop Internal Bleeding With A Tea You Can Grow In Your Own Backyard

Stinging Nettle (Urtica Dioica)

This tiny little plant is a perennial flowering plant, native to most of the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and northern Africa. Considered a weed by most people, nettles usually appear in bunches or groves in the same places year after year. Look for them in rich soil, disturbed habitats, moist woodlands, thickets, along rivers, fence lines, and along partially shaded trails.

Nettle Health Benefits

Nettle has been documented as an amazing restorative herb for hundreds of years. As one the earliest flowering plants in the spring, nettles are easy to brew into an amazing tea, to easily provide you with all of the health benefits it has to offer. Just take a look at all of the things nettle can do for you:

Improve heart action
Cure headaches

Stop internal bleeding
Beneficial for kidneys, and can help dissolve kidney stones
Blood purifier

Detoxifies body

Grow Your Own Nettles

Head out to your local gardening store and add some of this hardy little plant to your garden. This is one of the first plants to come up after the snow clears after winter, which makes this tea an incredible way to detoxify if you’ve been hit with the winter blues.

When harvesting the leaves from this plant, you need to be careful and know what you’re doing. The nettle’s leaves and stem pack a sharp sting that is mildly painful, and can last for hours. No one wants that, especially when you’re about to sit down with a relaxing cup of tea!

Tips For Harvesting Nettle

To avoid being hurt, use gloves and long sleeves to harvest the plant
Use scissors or garden clippers to cut the top two bracts of leaves. This will leave the rest of the plant able to regenerate and continue to grow.

Bring a pot or container with you, and harvest about a cup of fresh leaves. This will be enough for one or two cups of tea.

How To Brew Nettle Tea

Once you’ve harvested the nettle, the hard work is over.

Directions

Bring a pot of water to a near boil and add your collected leaves. There’s no need to measure either the water or the leaves, but you can make the tea stronger or weaker by adding less water (it all depends on your taste)
Once the water has boiled over, reduce heat and simmer for several minutes
When the time is up, pour water through a small strainer into a mug. Your tea should be ready to drink

Some people prefer small amounts of sugar to offset the taste of the nettles, but its up to you.

But Wait! A Little Caution

As with any new substance, nettle tea should be introduced to your system gradually, so the body has time to get used to it. One cup of nettle tea a day is enough for you to enjoy the benefits.

And of course, you do need to be careful with the stinging properties of the nettles, especially if you have children. Make sure they know to wear gloves like you when handling the plants