Medicinal use: The greater nettle is also a powerful purifier, both of the blood and of the whole organism. Nettles are used as a textile fiber and as food, since once cooked they lose their stinging power and have a pleasant taste. They are eaten as a vegetable, in tortilla soup, pizza.
Medicinal use: Among the variety of uses in medicine can be highlighted. Antiarrhythmic: Used to mediate tachycardia and accelerated palpitations. Cardiotonic: That allows to regulate blood pressure in cases of people with high pressures. Sedatives: Used to aid in anxiety or insomnia problems of neuronal origin, Oxytocic: Which promotes the release of oxytocin and causes contractions in the uterus. It can be used for menorrhagia and metrorrhagia (abnormal vaginal bleeding caused by abnormalities).
Medicinal use: The essential oil of this plant is used to make violet cream liqueur, which also has cinnamon and vanilla, purple in color and 36º graduation. The flowers have been consumed in salads and sweetened in pastries. They also make ice cream flavored with the flowers. It has external uses as a healing agent, in cleaning suppurating wounds, ulcers, dermal eruptions and conditions.
Medicinal use: Its leaves are often used to give aroma and flavor to both hot and cold tea. The leaves are also used to flavor dishes as a substitute for lemon peel. The fresh leaves give a lemony flavor to salads, soups, sauces, herb vinegars, game and fish (especially in Spain), and are an ingredient in Agua del Carmen, Liquors such as Benedictine and Chartreuse and cordials of vina.
