N Is For Nettle Pagan Blog Project

Behind schedule a thick breather I am in the long run back to the Pagan Blog Extension and this week I am script about Vex. An stunning herb full of power and workable, Vex can be eaten, brewed inside a tea (or wine or beer!), hand-me-down for protection and so much more!Ordinary Folk Names: Smarting Vex, Ordinary Smarting Vex, Ortiga Ancha, Devil's Apron, Devil's LeafBotanical Name: "Urtica dioica"Gender: MasculinePlanet: MarsElement: FirePowers: Exorcism, Protection, Patch-up, LustAnimal: SerpentGemstone: Maroon or Net OpalSome Associated Deities: Thor, Pluto, Hades, Horus, Osiris, Vulcan, YamaHabitat: Vex grows all patronizing the world in diluted, mysterious seats as well as in area, listed fences, fortifications and roadsides. It is a unkempt plant budding from 2 to 7 feet high with promptly grass and affront greenish vegetation which flourish from July to September. To the same extent you can gladly support nettle yourself it ghost hurriedly ramble patronizing an region so it is conceivably easier to instruction it from a saloon herbal store or if you must support your own, support it in a extensive pot to coolness it from invading the utter yard!Medicinal Properties: Histamine, biting and diuretic. Vex has been hand-me-down to development gout, insufferable joints, anemia, urinary tract troubles, hay ecstasy, niggle bites, as an expectorant, a laxative and haughty.Vex is high in efficient, vitamins A and C and both impulsive in protein which is one of the account they are hand-me-down to development anemia. Vex can be hand-me-down to make wine or glug down as well as oodles new necessities items. Vex can be hand-me-down to make a hair sponge down which ghost pull out hair amplify shiny and strong minus stripping the natural oils from the hair. It restores color as well as the health if the scalp. Upfront flax, Vex was hand-me-down to make leave high and dry, thread and cloth; Vex is alleged to be stronger than flax and resemble hemp in rig. Magically Vex is hand-me-down to constituency of ghosts and spirits, coolness evil out of the home and benefit a quick recovery. Brooms through of Nettles are hand-me-down to swab evil out of an region. To coolness evil out of the home, torrent Vex tell the hall and to constituency off ghosts, reproduction nettle in your hand. To help a not well person's recovery place a toss of a moment ago cut nettle under their bed. To coolness despair dated wear Vex in an amulet and to remove a curse and send it back stuff a poppet with nettle or reproduction nettle in a small package. To give an Athame, heat the blade and as a result put it inside an herbal health spa through of nettles.According to Scott Cunningham, Mexican spiritualists be redolent of Vex in decontamination baths having the status of it is "haughty carnivorous" that other herbs and ghost work haughty attractively. Lively Vex Lore: According to Maurice Zigmond in his book Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, children of the Kawaiisu chase of Southern California who required to study witchcraft had to provoke before nettles in propose for the practice (of witchcraft). (The peak areas of study that I was keen about, which I explored in impenetrability to the same degree attending Arizona Entry, were Archaeology and Occupant American studies so the choice lore was one haughty account for me to outline about Vex).SourcesBooks:Scott Cunningham: Calendar of magical HerbsMaurice Zigmond: Kawaiisu EthnobotanyWebsites:http://complete-herbal.com/details/nettle.htmlhttp://www.witchipedia.com/herb:nettlehttp://www.janih.com/lady/herbs/magick/N.htmlhttp://www.merciangathering.com/nettle.htm(recipes for Vex Wine and Cold drink are at home)http://www.pagansworld.org/tag/stinging-nettle/http://www.alchemy-works.com/urtica dioica.htmlhttp://www.magialuna.net/n.htmlhttp://dallia.hubpages.com/hub/interesting-facts-about-stinging-nettles