Making A Lather: stinging nettle tea

Saturday, May 21, 2022

lucky blocks

I guess, I wanted a little shamrock luck making these hole in the barn blocks for the rainbow scrap challenge at so scrappy.

pink blocks here

My husband harvested a laundry basket of stinging nettle from our yard. He adds it to his peppermint herb tea for the anti- inflammatory properties. It filled the whole dehydrator. we joke that we spent years trying to eradicate this weed from our yard and now, we harvest it. Ha-ha. I am just glad he handles it and I don't have to do it.

other benefits:

pain reducer

aids in digestion

boosts the immune system

improves kidney health

has vitamin a,c, potassium, iron, and beta carotene

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Wednesday, June 9, 2021

what I am working on

Do you know what stinging nettle is? It is a mean little weed that has spines all over it's stems and leaves, and, if you touch them, it injects a little bit of acid into your skin for a day's worth of burning and itching. Sometimes rubbing a maple leaf over it will neutralize the effect. When we bought our property 30 years ago, we had a forest of stinging nettles and burdock to clean out. We have worked very hard to eliminate most of them. So this year, I have watched youtube videos about gardening and herbs, and, they are saying stinging nettle tea is great for arthritis and inflammation. What? I did some research....

I definitely wore gloves to gather them. I still had an elbow get bit. I dried them and sure enough, I could touch them and crumble them.