Nettle 🌿 Recipe 🌱 Benefits
Health & Wellness | Posted By Jenny Griffith | Posted on Jan 31st, 2022
Today, I will share with you the growing conditions and amazing benefits of Nettle!
“That which hurts you can sometimes heal you”
Nettle is an herbalist’s go-to herb and is extremely versatile for almost anyone. This nourishing tonic plant grows across the states at sea level and sub-alpine elevations.
Nettle loves cool, wet, shady woodlands, streams, and ditches. She can grow up to 3-4 ft tall even with an upright stature.
Some people who aren’t familiar with Nettle think she's a nuisance and is invasive, but I think she's a blessing! Her medicinal benefits far outweigh her sting.
Nettle can be harvested in the early spring and summer. It’s best to harvest the young sprouts for medicine, but the whole plant can actually be used for different benefits.
What's so special about Nettle? Except for it stings you and hurts in a maybe good way?
She works on the whole body, completing an incredibly nourishing tonic for the organs and boosting the actions of the organs.
Nettle has a TON of minerals, vitamins, and nutrients like calcium, tons of protein, iron, magnesium, zinc, potassium, phosphorus, and chlorophyll. And Vitamins, A, C, B, K, amino acids, and silica.
This is a preventative herb that you can take daily as a tonic. I would recommend trying it out and drinking nettle tea for 8 weeks just to see what happens!
It has an anti-allergic/ anti-histamine action that combats seasonal allergies like itchy, runny nose, and sneezing.
One of the main draws to Nettle is the pain-relieving benefits it provides. Even stinging yourself with a nettle can bring circulation to the pain area of the body.
Pregnant Mommas can drink this to aid in lactation after birth if they have issues.
Nettle is a semi-adaptogen, so she also helps with physical stress responses, cognition, muscle coordination, and reduces anxiety.
Ayurvedically, Nettle carries the energetics of cooling, astringent, and has a pungent post-digestive effect. Nettle will pacify kapha + pitta, and aggravate vata if overused.
For culinary uses, you'll need to either blend or cook the nettle to make it safe to consume. Once you have done that you won't get stung in your mouth. I like to saute nettle and eat it as a side or puree it into a smoothie... There are so many ways to consume it! I've given you my fav NESTO recipe below, nettle pesto!
That's about it! Now go make some nettle tea :)
Love, J
Here’s my nettle recipe
NESTO and Medicinal Weed Pesto
2 c Nettle
1 1/2 c nasturtium, dandelion, or basil
2-3 cloves garlic
1 1/2 c of pumpkin seeds
1/4 c nutritional yeast
1/4 c parsley, packed
1/4 c olive oil
1tsp lemon zest
1Tbs lemon juice
1/2 tsp salt
Pasta + Toppings
2 raw spiralized zucchinis or whatever veggie you have on hand crispy chickpeas
sundried tomatoes
Instructions
1. Spiralize or cut zucchini into long spaghetti-like noodles
2. Add all pesto ingredients to a high-speed food processor. Process until smooth and creamy.
3. Leave the noodles raw- the pesto will soften them. Combine the noodles and pesto.
4. Serve and top with crispy chickpeas and/or sundried tomatoes.
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