White dead nettle
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.
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.
Side effects
None expected with normal dosage.
