Word Finder - nettle

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Any plant whose foliage is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.

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Certain plants that have spines or prickles:

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Certain non-stinging plants, mostly in the family Lamiaceae, that resemble the species of Urtica:

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Loosely, anything which causes a similarly stinging rash, such as a jellyfish or sea nettle.

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Of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting, causing a rash in someone.

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The children were badly nettled after playing in the field.

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To pique, irritate, vex or provoke.

She has a kind of nettle rash on her back.

The regular trampling of cattle can wipe out common nettle.

The natives eat extensively the bulbs of the Martagon lily, and weave cloth out of the fibres of the Kamchatka nettle.

Who hasn't sucked the nectar from the flower of the dead nettle?

If the Tories do not grasp this particular nettle then they will slide into oblivion like The Whigs before them.

Garden nettle patch survey Have you got your own nettle patch survey Have you got your own nettle patch?

Hereditary angioneurotic edema This is an inherited condition that can cause nettle rash and swelling around the eyes, mouth and hands.

If a thorough examination shows that there is no apparent trigger for the chronic nettle rash, do not be alarmed.

They have got up to everything from making nettle twine to extracting honey from our beehives at previous sessions.

Stinging nettle may be a natural antihistamine, and herbalists often recommended it as a tea.

Dead Nettle (Lamium) - Perennial herbs of which there are a few plants occasionally worth a place in poor dry soils, where little else will grow-such as are found on dry banks or beneath trees.

You may find dietary supplements such as turmeric, nettle, grapeseed extract, or hawthorn included.

For example, in 2002 a manufacturer of nettle capsules found to contain lead recalled the product following a warning from the FDA.

Herbal supplements that will benefit individuals who have anemia include bilberry, dandelion, goldenseal, mullein, nettle, Oregon grape root, red raspberry, and yellow dock.

Herbal supplements that benefit individuals who have iron deficiency anemia include alfalfa, burdock root, dandelion, dong quai, mullein, nettle, raspberry leaf, shepherd's purse, and yellow dock.

For symptom relief, western herbal remedies including eyebright (Euphrasia officinalis) and nettle (Urtica dioica) may be helpful.

The company also has wild nettle, soy, and hemp fabrics.

They may, for instance, be glandular or stinging, as in the common stinging nettle, where the top of the hair is very brittle, easily breaking off when touched.

In waste places, white dead nettle, violets and coltsfoot may be in flower, attracting early bumblebees and honey bees.

Both sites had new species including water chickweed, common toadflax, snapdragon, common hemp nettle, dwarf mallow and greater knapweed.

We decided to start off with the ' skin purifying ' tea, which includes red clover and nettle leaves?

As a treatment for the pain, I have recently started on hox alpha, which is concentrated nettle extract.

Alan also uses a kind of nettle soup that he applies through the year as a foliar feed.

The Southbank has that classic gooseberry fool profile with a touch of nettle too.

In recent times the nettle has also been found to be effective in the treatment of benign prostate hypertrophy.

Despite the occasional stylistic infelicity and the overuse of the first person singular, Nettle writes well.

Stinging nettle infusion replaces the nutrients and proteins that Kundalini uses up.

Nowhere in the country has been faster to grasp the biotech nettle than Dundee.

The dried nettles may well benefit from being left for a while in a mixture of cream and nettle water.

My advice is to go eat a nettle raw or something, it'll be more interesting.

At lunchtime Fergus the Forager had a queue lining up for his range of wild food quiches and nettle soup.

The beginner can rest assured, however that the fear of nettle stings is always far worse than the actual sting.

Some people have urticaria (skin reactions similar to nettle rash or hives ).

Grasping the nettle There is no simple resolution to the quandary of police reform in Northern Ireland.

Some people have urticaria (skin reactions similar to nettle rash or hives).

Many people take nettle tea in the spring time as a natural method of cleaning the body.

Commercial nettle tea has a very strong taste which may take some getting used to, or you can sweeten it with a little honey to make it more palatable.