Les Essentiels de Santane ORGANIC Spicy Nettle Loose Herbal Tea 30g

For almost 50 years, our team specialized in phytotherapy has been selecting exceptional plants of recognized quality for you.| We choose our suppliers with the utmost care to obtain the best plants, al giusto price. This is why we implement responsible sourcing and fair trade.| Origins and uses of Nettle | Nettle is a plant belonging to the Urticaceae family. Often classified as a weed, it has been used as a medicinal plant since ancient times, it is a plant that contains flavonoids, trace elements and even minerals.| There are more than twenty species of nettles: the two species most used in herbal medicine are theUrtica dioecious, or also nicknamed the dioecious nettle or the large nettle; And Urtica urens, nicknamed the burning nettle or the little nettle.| This plant is particularly renowned for its stinging power: that is, it causes an inflammatory reaction on the skin.| The Greek physician and botanist Dioscorides referred to Nettle in his works and promoted its use. At the same modo even Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, was interested in this plant.| Nettle is present in many regions of the world, particularly in Europe. It grows on rich soil and is very easily found in the wild in uncultivated or abandoned places.| Its leaves and roots are used in herbal medicine.| Appearance of the Nettle plant | Nettle has a quadrangular stem and toothed, oval-shaped leaves. They are covered in prickly hairs. Depending on the species, the size, color and roots vary. Some have rhizomes and some do not.| It is possible to consume Nettle in soup or salad, but also as a food supplement, in infusion, mother tincture, dry extract or fluid extract.| Packaging produced in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Practical resealable and reusable kraft bag.