Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1400/en

The Composition of the Stinging Nettle Preparation

As the third in the alliance with yarrow and chamomile, the stinging nettle shows in its characterful outward appearance scarcely any family resemblance to these — yet it does so in the manner of its dealings with potassium, calcium, and additionally iron. The sulphur process permeates the whole plant from above with great power. It bestows upon the stinging nettle the capacity to lift these substances out of their earthly-inorganic nature and to incorporate them into its life processes. Rudolf Steiner calls it "the greatest benefactress of plant growth […] The stinging nettle is truly a jack-of-all-trades, it can do an enormous amount […] besides the fact that the stinging nettle carries potassium and calcium in its radiations and streams, it also has a kind of iron radiations, which are almost as beneficial to the course of nature as our own iron radiations in the blood. The stinging nettle does not really deserve, for all its goodness, to grow out there so often despised in nature. It ought really to grow around the human heart, for it is truly in outer nature, in its magnificent inward working, its inner organization, actually similar to what the heart is in the human organism." (Figure 28, p. 383).