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Digestate Improves Stinging Nettle (Urtica dioica) Growth and Fiber Production at a Chlor-Alkali Site [PDF]
PlantsMarginal lands have been proposed to produce non-food crop biomass for energy or green materials. For this purpose, the selection, implementation, and growth optimization of plant species on such lands are key elements to investigate to achieve relevant ...
Chloé Viotti +9 more
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Agronomy, 2022 Poultry litter and fertilizers are normally added as soil amendments. The effects of poultry litter and inorganic fertilizers on three mixed-season perennial forages were studied for two years in the field to understand growth dynamics, metals, and ...
Ngowari Jaja +4 more
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Mechanism of Action of Stinging Nettles [PDF]
Wilderness & Environmental Medicine, 2011 Objective Inadvertent exposure to the ubiquitous weed, Urtica dioica, called “stinging nettles” produces an immediate stinging and burning sensation on the skin. This investigation evaluates the structural effect that stinging nettle spicules may have on the clinical manifestation of these symptoms.
Alexander J, Cummings, Michael, Olsen
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Antimutagenic and antioxidant activity of a protein fraction from aerial parts of Urtica dioica [PDF]
, 2014 Context: Urtica dioica L. (Urticaceae), stinging nettle, has been employed as a folklore remedy for a wide spectrum of ailments, including urinary disorders, prostatic hyperplasia, and liver diseases.
DI GIACOMO, Silvia +6 more
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Optimization of nutritional and sensory properties of fermented oat-based composite beverage
Heliyon, 2022 Oat (Avena sativa) is well-known for its nutritional value and health-promoting properties. There are only a few oat-based value-added products on the market in Ethiopia, and this study attempted to develop a new product that is both nutritionally ...
Getaneh Firew Alemayehu +3 more
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Local knowledge held by farmers in Eastern Tyrol (Austria) about the use of plants to maintain and improve animal health and welfare [PDF]
, 2016 Background The sustainable management of animal health and welfare is of increasing importance to consumers and a key topic in the organic farming movement.
Vogl, Christian R. +2 more
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Obtaining Nettle Extracts (urtica Dioica) by Means of Hydro-cavitation
Chemical Engineering Transactions, 2022 Stinging nettle (Urtica dioica L.) is considered a great source of secondary metabolites of commercial interest and the extraction of this kind of metabolites is important for the process viability and scale-up. Different alternatives have been evaluated,
Esteban F. Aguirre Duran +2 more
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Topical herbal therapies for treating osteoarthritis (review) [PDF]
, 2013 Background Before extraction and synthetic chemistry were invented, musculoskeletal complaints were treated with preparations from medicinal plants. They were either administered orally or topically.
Cameron, Melainie, Chrubasik, Sigrun
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CABI Agriculture and Bioscience, 2022 Background Stinging nettle, Urtica simensis, has a wide range of distribution in the highlands of Ethiopia with untapped potential for a sustainable supply of healthy and nutritious food.
Tigist Tadesse Shonte +1 more
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The Poison of the Stinging-Nettle [PDF]
Nature, 1886 IN the interesting article in your issue for May 6 (p. 5), on “Plants and their Defences,” there is one sentence on which I should like to be allowed to offer a few remarks. It runs thus:—“This fluid [of the stinging-gland of the stinging-nettle] is generally conjectured to be formic acid—a view based on the fact that this acid can be obtained from the
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