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Nettle tea is prepared from the fresh or dried leaves, flowers and sometimes the roots of a herbaceous plant named common or stinging nettle (Urtica dioica). Having several biologically active compounds, the tea made from nettle has a lot of medicinal benefits.
Being a native of Asia, Europe, North America and North Africa, it is widely used in Bulgaria, Greece, Denmark and other European countries. The various medicinal uses of this plant have been recorded by Hippocrates in the fourth and fifth century.

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Being high in potassium, this herbal tea also acts as a good diuretic and detoxifier, helping body fluids to pass smoothly through the bladder and kidney, preventing water retention. It is also functional in breaking down or dissolving stones formed in the kidney. In the Journal of Herbal Pharmacotherapy, the role of nettle tea in freeing the urinary tract of toxins is stated. Nettle root tea helps in treating benign prostate hyperplasia (a disorder in men above 50), reducing the prostate size along with its symptoms.