The white dead nettle can be recognized by its large lip flowers.

Latin name: Lamium album
Genus: Mint family
Common names: Cuckoo nettle, flower nettle

Plant description

The plant grows 40 to 50 cm high, the stem hollow and square, the leaves opposite, stalked, heart-shaped and toothed on the edge. Grow along the stem All around large, pure white lip flowers.

Flowering time: April to October.
Occurrence: Widely used at Roadsides, bushes and at embankments.

Plant parts used medicinally

The blossoms.

ingredients

Saponins, mucilages, little essential oil, flavone glycosides.

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Medicinal effect and application

The Conventional medicine does not use this drug. Applied in folk medicine at painful menstruation, white discharge of the young girls. But also with Stomach and intestinal discomfort and at Catarrhs ​​of the upper respiratory tract as well as sleeping pills and sedatives for the elderly.

preparation

Dead nettle tea: 1 to 2 teaspoons Pour ¼ l of cold water over dead nettle blossoms, heat to the boil, 5 minutes let it steep, strain. One can 2 to 3 cups a day drink for a long time. At to cough and sweeten with honey to calm them down.

Combination with other medicinal plants

With the complaints described above, a Mixture of dead nettle and yarrow proven in equal parts. The preparation as described above. For external use at poorly healing wounds you can use the dead nettle flowers Arnica flowers Mix in equal parts. One out of it tea prepare and as envelope apply.

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Side effects

None expected with normal dosage.


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