Nettles Sentence Examples

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  • Nettles are high in minerals and vitamins, too.

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  • The rash that occurs after being stung by nettles happens within minutes of contact.

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  • Stinging nettles are especially good for treating hay fever with its bothersome watery eyes and sneezing.

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  • If you are diabetic or if you take anticoagulants, blood pressure medication or diuretics, you should discuss nettles with your doctor before you use this supplement.

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  • Young nettles, grass cuttings and comfrey are good natural activators.

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  • I 'm not sure what the heavy plant in question was - but Martin tells me the nettles were fairly weighty !

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  • Evidence of effectiveness is limited; however, nettles have been used to treat hay fever in other countries for years.

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  • If you do not notice a difference within a week, nettles may not work for you.

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  • Pegasus can be used for breaking up the soil or clearing brambles and nettles.

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  • The butterflies usually oviposit on nettles growing in smallish clumps in sunny woodland glades, or in the vicinity of hedgerows.

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  • The banks are full of wild plants including buddleia, thistles and nettles, all of which provide habitats for butterflies and other insects.

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  • In the garden I have dandelions, clover, dock, nettles and a big patch of ground elder to take care of.

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  • The new European rules primarily ban lawn treatments which kill dandelions, nettles and brambles.

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  • Joe needs some new trousers, tho, he was wearing shorts and got stung by nettles!

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

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  • You just need brightly colored flowers, with a good mix between cultivated and wild flowers, including nettles and thistles.

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  • I'd much prefer fresh stinging nettles any day!

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  • Then, with a deft swing he sent him crashing into a clump of tall nettles, which closed receptively round him.

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  • Garnish with chopped parsley and serve with jacket potatoes and steamed young stinging nettles.

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  • The plant is entirely parasitic on Nettles and feeds on their sap using especially adapted ' suckers ' .

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  • Nettles are useful in ridding the lungs of excess phlegm and cleansing the body of toxins and make an ideal herbal cuppa.

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  • A few plants were in flower, including red and white dead nettles, groundsel, yarrow, charlock and field speedwell.

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  • I'm not sure what the heavy plant in question was - but Martin tells me the nettles were fairly weighty!

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  • Nettles are an overall astringent, cleansing tonic.

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  • Thus the Zulu says to the ancestral ghost, "Help me or you will feed on nettles"; whilst the still more primitive Australian exclaims to the "dead hand" that he carries about with him as a kind of divining-rod, "Guide me aright, or I throw you to the dogs."

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  • Ashes particularly rich in potash are those of burning nettles, wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), tansy (Tanacetum vulgare), fumitory (Fumaria officinalis), and tobacco.

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  • Fungus-galls on leaves and stems are exemplified by the pocket-plums caused by the Exoasceae, the black blistering swellings of Ustilago Maydis, the yellow swellings on nettles due to Aecidium, &c.

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