Nettle.Stinging nettle,Nettle leaf,Nettle root,Common Stinging Nettle?Therapeutics and Pharmacology,Historical or traditional use of Nettle.

Nettle Pharmacology:Pharmacodynamics/Kinetics.

Nettle Extract INCI Name Urtica Dioica Extract EINECS ELINCS No 281-685-5 CAS 84012-40-8 Urticae radix Extracts Nettle Root Extract photo picture image After oral administration of 20mg of Urtica dioica agglutinin (UDA) to healthy volunteers, 30-50% of the dose was excreted in the feces. The total amount of UDA in the urine was less than 1%.

Prior to use as an herbal medicine, stinging nettle was used in fabric weaving. Archaeologists have discovered fabric burial shrouds made from nettle dating back to the Bronze Age. By-products of nettle, such a sugar, starch, protein and ethyl alcohol, have also been used. Nettle fibers have been used to make paper.

Nettle can be cooked and eaten as a vegetable, and there are several recipes for nettle beer, nettle wine, nettle and potato soup, nettle tea, Scotch nettle pudding, creamed nettles, and nettle puree.

Nettle was used as a medicinal agent as early as 3 BC both internally and externally mainly as a treatment or antidote for bites, wounds and poisonings. Nettle was smoked to treat asthma. Native Americans used nettle tea for pregnancy complications and to stop uterine bleeding after childbirth. The early settlers adopted these uses and used it to increase breast milk production. The juice of the nettle leaf was believed to be a hair growth stimulant.

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1.Nettle.Stinging nettle,Nettle leaf,Nettle root,Common Stinging Nettle?Therapeutics and Pharmacology,Historical or traditional use of Nettle.

last edit date:2nd,Mar.2010.

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Name:Nettle Extract
Serie No:R018.
Specifications:4:1 TLC Silica 1%UV; Beta-Sterols 1%UV
INCI Name:URTICA DIOICA EXTRACT
EINECS/ELINCS No.:281-685-5
CAS:84012-40-8
Chem/IUPAC Name:Urtica Dioica Extract is an extract of the aerial parts of the nettle,Urtica dioica,Urticaceae

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