Stinging Nettle

Stinging Nettle urtica dioica is one of natures blood cleansing and blood building herbs which is very effective in treating skin diseases such as ezcema, disorders and inflammation of the urinary passage and suppression of urine. All parts of stinging nettle starting from the roots, stems, leaves, flowers have medicinal properties.

I have just read from Maria Treben Health Through God's Pharmacy that she once told a mother who since her last birth had suffered from eczema and headaches to try stinging nettle tea. She said in a short time she was free from eczema and headaches too. She attributed this amazing success to the fact that the cause of eczema often lies internally and has to be treated internally with blood cleansing herbs such as stinging nettle.

Stinging nettle can also be used for ulcers in the intestines, congestion of the lungs or stomach and lung disorders.  It is also said to work against colds, gout and rheumatism. Maria Treben told a story of a lady who suffered from sciatica and was under medical care for 3 years. She advised this lady take stinging nettle baths where 200gm of stinging nettle are added. After six stinging nettle baths the lady lost all pain within six months.

Sciatica Natural Remedies

We all hate pain more especially sharp pain and sciatica is a condition where there is pain caused by the irritation or compression of the sciatica nerve. Doctors usually recommend pain killers and some exercises which in most acute cases may not sort out the underlying problem. Fortunately there are some natural remedies that can help in curing the body of this condition by sorting out the underlying causes of this diseases. Before we go to the natural remedies we need to learn what this condition is all about.

Doctors tell us that the sciatic nerve is the longest nerve in your body. It starts from the back of your pelvis, through your buttocks, and all the way down both legs, ending at your feet. That is the reason why when this nerve is irritated or compressed, the pain that results radiates out from your lower back and travels down your leg to your calf. In somes it can be very painful resulting in a situation where the patient is almost incapacitated due to the pain. The common cause of sciatica is a slipped disc. For most patients the pain usually only lasts for a few days or weeks but for some it may last for some time and may in some instance require surgery especially in the case of slipped discs.

Types of sciatica

There are two types of sciatica:

• acute sciatica, which lasts up to six weeks
• persistent (chronic) sciatica, which lasts longer than six weeks

Natural Remedies

There are some natural remedies that are very effective against sciatica are and Dr Schulze  a prominent medical herbalist recommends the following:

• Applying Dr Schulze Deep Tissue Oil. 
• Taking Dr Schulze Intestinal Formula #1
• doing alternating hot and cold hydrotherapy over the affected area. You do this this use of hot and cold packs over the affected area.

Doing some structured exercises with a trained physiotherapist also helps in sorting out sciatica.