The infusion of nettle tea has been used in folk medicine for centuries. Nettle tea is made from the dried leaves of this herb. Although we usually stay away from this stinging weed as much as ...

Nettle, or stinging nettle (Urtica dioica), is an herbaceous flowering plant that has been used as a natural remedy for thousands of years due to its medicinal and nutritional properties. You've ...

I took some friends to the woods this week to teach them about nettling. My son and I think nettles are the easiest wild things to "catch." They're faster to find than mushrooms and are certainly not ...

Spring is here. The days are warmer, the sun is brighter, birds are singing, and allergy season is close at hand. Sure, some people sneeze and wheeze all winter long due to exposure to dust, mites and ...

As is the arc of many folk herbalists, one of the first revelatory herbal preparations I was introduced to was the nourishing herbal infusion. These herbal drinks are made with “weeds” such as nettle, ...

When it's cold and damp outside, we no longer have to resort to methods the Romans used in order to keep warm when they invaded England some 2000 years ago. Then the freezing soldiers rubbed stinging ...