Uses
- Catarrh,
- Leucorrhea,
- Bronchial Hemorrhage
- Blood Spitting Uterine Hemorrhage
- Nephritis
- Hematuria
- Menorrhagia
- Laxative (from young leaves)
- Asthma & bronchial problems (from dried leaves)
Description
Non Woody plants lasting for 3 seasons or more, usually having both re-productive organs in same plant, bearing either staminate or pistillate flower pubescents, stinging hairs.
Stem
Erect, usually simple upto 2 m tall.
Leaves
Slender, petioled, ovate cordate, oblong or lanceolate, serrate, acute or acuminate, 5 to 15 cm long; stipules free, linear lenceolate, 5 to 15 mm long, cinereous puberulent. Inflorescence branched, many flowered, loose or dense, commonly cyme, unisexual, exceeding the subtending petioles.
Fruiting
Calyx ovate, about 2 mm long, pubescent and longer then outer calyx. Fruit an achene, ovate about 1.5 mm long
Distribution
Great Britain, Europe, Japan, U.S.A. and India
Constituents
- Acetylcholine;
- histamine; and
- 5-hydroxytryptamine
Microscopical
Leaf:
Dorsiventral; glandular hairs (having a stalk and a head) and conical, silicified stinging hairs present. Stomata confined to lower surface only; cystolith present.
Petiole:
is t.s. through distal end showed a depply cresentic arc of widely spaced collateral bundles.
Stem:
cork arising much deeper in the cortex; cortex well developed; pericycle consists of isolated patches of fibers, individual fibers sometimes 7 cm tor more long.
Vascular bundles conjoint, collateral and open; wood parenchyma cells of two types; with normally lignified walls and paratracheal and with thin unlignified walls occuring as bands or islands; in cross section the ray tissue included within such parenchyma usually unlignified, some times contain solitary crystals.
Alternating zones of lignified and unlignified ground tissue noted in the xylem.
Mention In
- Introduced in 1856, Hirschel's Archiv. II, 162;
- Homoepathic Pharmacopoeia of United States, 7th Edition, 569.
Preparation
Mother Tincture Q- Urtica Dioica Moist Magma containing solids 100gm
- Plant Moisture 300ml
- Purified Water 200ml
- Strong Alcohol 537ml
Language | Synonym |
---|---|
French | Ortie Brulante |
Botanical | Urt. Dio. |
Botanical | Urtica Dioica Linn. |
English | Urtica Dioica |
English | Common Nettle |
English | Stinging Nettle |
German | Grosse Brennessel |
Urdu | بچھو بوٹی |
Urdu | بچہوا |
Specification | |
Part | Whole Plant |
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Tags: Catarrh, Leucorrhea, Bronchial Hemorrhage Blood Spitting Uterine Hemorrhage Nephritis Hematuria Menorrhagia Laxative (from young leaves) Asthma & bronchial problems (from dried leaves)