The Weekly Update - Nettles

The Weekly Update - Nettles

So, the sun arrived at last and the nettles are coming out of the ground. I hope you had your healthy dose as a soup or in a salad. But if you do not like the stinging in your mouth, the stinging nettle is actually a very useful homoeopathic remedy as well.

The homoeopathic preparation of the stinging nettle is called, Urtica urens, like the botanical name of this useful weed.

In folk medicine the nettle was boiled and used against anaemia, and beatings with stinging nettles were used for arthritic joints.

In Homoeopathy the stinging nettle is used for burning sensations and actual first degree burns to the skin. It is also used for allergic reactions which cause burning, swelling and itching. So it can be used in heat rashes or for sunburns with intense burning and itching.

Another area where this remedy is used homoeopathically is acute and chronic gout and rheumatism with urticaria like eruptions. It also has a special affinity with the right deltoid muscle particularly where there is continuous pain , which is worse when rotating the arm inwards.

And last but not least it can be beneficial for breast-feeding mothers. It not only increases the milk flow when weaning, it diminishes it was well when weaning-off.

This short portrait of the homoeopathic remedy Urtica urens is not intended for self medication. In Homoeopathy the whole person with all the symptoms is taken into account to find the right prescription for the individual. So if you need any help or think that this remedy might help you, please contact me.