Plant profile · Europe
Nettle
Stinging nettle. A mineral-rich spring green once you cook the sting out. Gloves for harvest. Respect after that.
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Benefits and traditional uses
- Cooked spring green
- Traditional tea for seasonal skin and joints
- Wildlife and fiber plant
European households ate young nettle as a pot herb and drank the dried leaf. The sting is formic and mechanical — cook or dry it and the sting goes.
Precautions
- Fresh plant stings. Gloves.
- Seed and root are different preparations than leaf — learn which part you have.
Prepare
Young tops cooked as food, or dried leaf as tea. Harvest with gloves. Do not eat raw stinging leaves.
Dosage
Dosage is not provided in this prototype. A later sourced record can sit here. Do not treat any number on this site as a prescription.
Grow
Moist, nitrogen-rich ground. It will make a patch. Butterflies use it.
Gloves · Cook the sting out · Patch-forming
Cultural context
Character-led stories and cultural notes will live here once Maria’s research pass is in. Region on this card: Europe.
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