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

• Urtica Dioica Moist Magma containing solids         100gm
• Plant Moisture                                                               300ml
• Purified Water                                                               200ml
• Strong Alcohol                                                               537ml