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No one grows nettles in their garden on purpose, does not create favorable conditions for it, does not water it from a watering can at sunset on a hot summer day. Nettle does not take offense and itself comes to visit or to a permanent place of residence.
Nettle does not like mischievous people who encroach on someone else's harvest, and greets them with a "handshake" that burns their skin. From such a technique, the desire to continue the journey to the neighboring garden disappears, and the fancier to feast on someone else's expense leaves the same path along which he came.
Why stinging nettles
The world around us is full of enemies, from which everyone defends himself to the best of his ability. Stinging (nettle) cells, which have a capsule with a poisonous stinging liquid, are the defense tool of the nettle. The cells grow tiny hairs that cover the stem and leaves of the plant. One has only to lightly touch the nettle, as the hairs that are sensitive to mechanical stress break, and the burning liquid enters the body of the troublemaker. If you want to become a friend of nettles, be careful and attentive.
The healing properties of nettle
Over the multimillion-dollar history of its life, nettle has adapted to accumulate substances that accelerate the clotting of human blood; killing pathogenic microbes that spoil health, and, therefore, human life. People are grateful to nettle and resort to its help when it is necessary to stop bleeding from a wound, to cleanse the damaged surface of the skin from pathogens of inflammation. To do this, putting on protective gloves on our hands, we quickly run to the fence, pluck fresh sprigs of nettles, turn them into a gruel with the help of a table crush and apply this gruel to the wound. Nettle guarantees quick healing of injury without harmful consequences.
Today's perfume industry adds nettle extracts to shampoos, creams. But why waste money, which is always and for many things, when a wonderful healer grows in his own garden. Preparing to go to the bathhouse, boil fresh nettle with boiling water and after washing your hair, rinse it with this broth. Hair will gratefully respond to such a simple procedure with lively shine, health and beauty.
The bathhouse is a good healer in itself, but in collaboration with nettles, its rating grows before our eyes. In addition to strengthening hair, nettle will help strengthen the walls of blood vessels, improve metabolism in the body, relieve rheumatic boring pains, which, although not fatal, but deprive life of joy. To do this, after the bath procedures, you need to reinforce yourself not with Indian tea, but with nettle brewed with boiling water. This tea is contraindicated only for people with heart and kidney failure.
Slavic cuisine
Nettles, wildly growing near the wattle fence, simply ask for the dining table. In early spring, when the garden is just beginning to fill with seeds and undersized seedlings, nettles are ready to help you in the kitchen.
Nettle will generously share the rich composition of vitamins if you add it to a light spring green soup or Russian cabbage soup. She just does not like pots made of copper and iron, stealing and destroying its useful components, and also prefers to be added to the dish as a last resort.
In order not to burn yourself with a green spring salad, the nettles should be doused with boiling water, and only then cut for the salad.
From nettle in collaboration with chicken eggs, you can prepare a puree rich in vitamins for hearty and healthy sandwiches. Or you can bake fragrant pies stuffed with nettle in the oven.
Nettle can even be prepared for the long winter by fermenting it in a similar way to fermenting cabbage. To grow cabbage, you need to devote a lot of time and labor to watering, weeding, collecting caterpillars and others who want to share a meal with you. And the nettle turns green at the fence, not requiring a single drop of your attention.
Not only people, but also butterflies love to eat nettles. One of them even received a consonant name - the urticaria butterfly, since its caterpillars feed on nettle leaves.
Reliable watchman
Nettle, in addition to a large number of useful properties described above, is a faithful and reliable guardian of your garden and garden harvest. Not every prankster dares to climb into your territory if there is a thick and high strip of nettles parallel to the fence.
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