Herb Of The Week

Purple Dead Nettle, also known as “Lamium purpureum” can be described as a weedy plant and  an annual herbaceous plant that is native to Asia and Europe. It is often found next to Henbit Dead-nettle (Lamium amplexicaule), which can cause many to mistake it for Purple Dead Nettle since they both have the same leaves and similar bright purple flowers. This weed contains astringent, purgative, diuretic, and diaphoretic properties, which medically are beneficial.

Purple dead Nettle is  anti-inflammatory, antifungal and antibacterial.

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Therefore it can be used to:

• Treat cuts/wounds/ Insect bites 

• Add to your drinking tea 

• UTI treatment 

•  alleviate joint pain

• eaten fresh, sprinkled in salads, or used in pestos

• Infused Oils

• Homemade herbal salve

Be cautious with too much use can cause a laxative effect.

When trying to locate these beauties you can often describe and notice them in your backyard, field's, and many other places with their Purplish flowers have a top hooded petal with 2 lower lip petals, and their leaves that are crowded heart-shaped leaves tend to overlap; upper leaves are often purplish with greenish undersides and hairy. Short petioles. Wavy to serrated margins. They are around yearly from Fall, Spring, Summer, and Winter depending on your location in the U.S.A.