Stinging Nettles by MH
To my suprize, the Dr. John R. Christopher books don't cover the subject of Stinging Nettles and this is really sad, because no one covered herbs like Dr. Christopher did. And no one could be trusted as much as Dr. Christopher. Today's info on the internet is so conflicting, so confusing and has no foundation...just a bunch of people writing what ever they feel like writing and usually to make buck $$$$ from.....
Before this, I had used fresh Nettle leaves and used nettle roots that were dry and cut into tea size use. I was suprised fresh roots were very deep yellow, almost orange in color and reminded me of the orange star fish that cover the ocean floor. These orange roots seek to take over the land and this makes the nettle patches very dense and few humans can stand to walk through a patch, because they would get thousands of needle injections causing the most ichiest of stings.
Some sources suggest you want that poison for your MEDICAL use.....I will pass on that theory.....while the roots are used for their MINERAL CONTENT and most famous currently for prostrate and for hair, etc.... SEEMS that orange color shows their IRON CONTENT and also very high in potassium...some of the better authors that have written real herb books, love this herb.
I think the reason Dr. Christopher didn't write aabout it was because he used YELLOW DOCK in his state for an excellant IRON source..... Yellow Dock is basically a miracal herb to help a human with iron problems and if humans used it in their foods, there would probably be many less homicides in America. Makes me wonder what Nettles and Yellow Dock as a blend would turn out to be good for, maybe mixed in with some fresh Turmeric. I raised Turmeric one year and that stuff is the most yellow fluid in a root I have ever seen, almost strong enough to use as a yellow dye and suppose to be an excellant source of vitamin C.
Speaking of Vitamin C, I was reading the otherday about the couple of doctors that received nobel prizes for the invention of the scam we know today as VITAMINS and one of the early pioners tried his best to obtain VITAMIN C and went to great lengths to obtain it and it could not be done......not until they discovered a simple herb used as a spice was absolutly loaded with what the medical scientist called VITAMIN C....but Medical never used it for humans, instead they created the acid known today as absorbic vitamin c acid...and these fake toxic waste products is what the doctors got Nobel Prizes for....not for using real herbs, but making chemical FAKES!
mh