BENEFITS OF STINGING NEEDLE (SISNO)
Rahul Senchuri
Master's Student with experience in Breeding in Turkey birds and enthusiastic in new research opportunities.
Nutritional value:
Stinging needle contains various beneficial elements like iron, vitamin A, vit. C and Vit. D. But due to the ignorance, many people don’t eat stinging needle.
Medicinal value:
1.Iron found in abundance help women revitalize her during high blood loss in menstrual cycle.
2.It also helps to control hair fall and other skin related problems.
3.Reduce the problem of constipation and improves digestibility.
4.The fluid extract can be used by the patient of rheumatic fever as a marvellous cure.
5.The regular feeding of stinging needle can help you prevent diabetes and heart related problems.
6.Helps in cellular and nuclear regeneration.
How to use stinging needle?
1.After well cleaning its leaves, it can be used as curry. Adding salts, chilly, garlic can improve the test of stinging needle.
2.Chopping the plants, cutting it into fine pieces and sun drying to make it fine powder. Thus, prepared powder can be used in either curry or as soup.
3.Nowadays, we can also find tea of stinging needle. Like green tea, its powdery form is first mixed in water and boiled to get herbal tea.