Urtica dioica

Botanical Name:

Urtica dioica, LINN

Family Name:

Urticaceae.

Local Name:

Jumi

Urdu Name:

Bichu-buti

English name:

Stinging nettle

Part used:

Whole Herb

Flowering:

May - July

Description:

Urtica dioica is a perennial herb, stem erect, slender, long, grooved, covered with stinging hairs. Leaves ovate or lanceolate, opposite, apex pointed, margins toothed, also covered with stinging hairs. Stipule present. Plant is monoecious, in which male and female flowers are born on separate plant, flowers minute and green, arising in axillary and terminal branching pyramidal clusters. Fruit flattened achenes.

Habitat:

In Gilgit/Baltistan it is found in moist places along streams, water channels etc.

Medicinal uses:

It is used in haematuria, jaundice, fever, consumption, nephrites, eruptive skin diseases, gouts and kidney diseases.

Locally its young leaves are used as a vegetable.

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