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Nettles are a traditional spring tonic for people that had become depleted and deficient through winter. Similarly Nettles has long been used to boost and enrich milk supply in both humans and animals and Nettles have been traditionally used with Raspberry leaf, Oatstraw and Alfalfa as a pregnancy tonic to avoid anemia and support healthy growth.
 
Nettle is recognized as one of the great cleansing herbs and has been widely used for the treatment of rheumatism, gout, kidney stones and chronic skin diseases, especially eczema.
 
Nettles were also very widely used directly for severe joint pain where the practice of 'Urtication' involved taking fresh stinging nettle and rubbing the herb over the affected areas. Of course this hurts somewhat and you can be sure that no-one would have done this if it did not considerably help!