Plant Details

Accepted name:: Urtica dioica L. [Urticaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants
Infraspecies:: 11

Urtica dioica subsp. afghanica Chrtek

Urtica dioica subsp. dioica

Urtica dioica subsp. gansuensis C.J.Chen

Urtica dioica var. glabrata (Clem.) Asch. & Graebn.

Urtica dioica var. hispida (Lam. ex DC.) Tausch ex Ott

Urtica dioica var. holosericea Fr.

Urtica dioica subsp. kurdistanica Chrtek

Urtica dioica var. sarmatica Zapał.

Urtica dioica subsp. sondenii (Simmons) Hyl.

Urtica dioica subsp. subinermis (R.Uechtr.) Weigend

Urtica dioica subsp. pubescens (Ledeb.) Domin

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
ain	Other	Ethnomed. Pl. of Chamba District, India (Rani et al., 2013)
anjoreh	Other	Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
anjuraa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
bhicchughas	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bicchu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bichhu buti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bichhu-buti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bichu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bichu buti	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bichubati	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
brandnetelwortel	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Urtica spp., rad. (2008)
brennesselblätter	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Urtica spp., fol. (2007)
brennesselwurzel	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. in N.I.S. (WHO, 2010)
brennnesselwurzel	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Urtica spp., rad. (2008)
brännässelrot	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Urtica spp., rad. (2008)
brännässla	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
brännässleblad	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Urtica spp., fol. (2007)
brændenælderod	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Urtica spp., rad. (2008)
california nettle	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
chalkan	Other	Med. Pl. Uzbekistan & Kyrgyzstan (Eisenman et al., 2013)
chayan oot	Other	Med. Pl. Uzbekistan & Kyrgyzstan (Eisenman et al., 2013)
chhoku	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
chichicaste	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
chidghints	Other	Med. Pl. Use: Tajik & Afghan Pamirs (Kassam et al., 2010)
chine	Other	Med. Pl. at Markets in S Ecuador (Tinitana et al., 2016)
chule	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
chutle	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
cleavers	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020)
comfrey	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020)
common nettle	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. in N.I.S. (WHO, 2010)
common stinging nettle	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020)
common stinging nettle for homoeopathic preparations	Other	British Pharmacop. 2012, Vol. 4 (2011) British Pharmacop. 2015, Vol. 4 (2014) European Pharmacop., 6th edn. (2007) European Pharmacop., 7th edn. (2012)
csalángyökér	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Urtica spp., rad. (2008) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. in N.I.S. (WHO, 2010)
csalánlevé	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Urtica spp., fol. (2007)
dhyo	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
european nettle	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
european stinging nettle	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
folia urticae	Pharmaceutical	Med. Pl. of the Russian Pharm. (Shikov, 2014)
galbang	Other	Pl. of Shawar Valley, Pakistan (Hussain et al., 2006)
gazanda	Other	Med. Pl. Uzbekistan & Kyrgyzstan (Eisenman et al., 2013)
gazaneh	Other	Med. Pl. in Markets of Mashhad, Iran (Amiri & Joharchi, 2013) Survey in Kohghiluyeh va Boyer Ahmad, Iran (Mosaddegh et al., 2012) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. in N.I.S. (WHO, 2010)
gazgazuk	Other	Survey in Kohghiluyeh va Boyer Ahmad, Iran (Mosaddegh et al., 2012)
gazna	Other	Med. Pl. in Tajikistan (Williams et al., 2012)
giant nettle	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
grande ortie	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. in Djerba Island, Tunisia (Ben salah et al., 2019) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. in N.I.S. (WHO, 2010)
great nettle	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
greater nettle	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. in N.I.S. (WHO, 2010)
grosse brennessel	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. in N.I.S. (WHO, 2010)
große brennessel	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
għerq il-ħurrieq	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Urtica spp., rad. (2008)
haarnesselwurzel	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. in N.I.S. (WHO, 2010)
hanfnesselwurzel	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. in N.I.S. (WHO, 2010)
hhurrayq	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. in N.I.S. (WHO, 2010)
horeig	Other	Wild Med. Pl. in M'Sila, Algeria (Boudjelal et al., 2013)
hyo	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
isirgan	Other	Med. Pl. in E Black Sea Region of Turkey (Toksoy et al., 2010)
jaggy	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020)
jhaduk	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
jon	Other	Ethnobot. of Pl. Resources, N Pakistan (Sher & Hussain, 2009)
kajyang	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
kali	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kalsyoon	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kandadli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kandali	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kanddali	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
khaeshing	Other	Pl. for Musculoskeletal Disorders, N. Pakistan (Malik et al., 2018)
kichitki oot	Other	Med. Pl. Uzbekistan & Kyrgyzstan (Eisenman et al., 2013)
kopriva	Other	Native Med. Pl. of Mt. Rtanj (Zlatković et al., 2014)
kopřivový kořen	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Urtica spp., rad. (2008)
korenina koprive	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Urtica spp., rad. (2008)
korzeń pokrzywy	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Urtica spp., rad. (2008)
krapiva	Other	Wild Pl. for Food & Healing in Liubań, Belarus (Sõukand et al., 2017)
krapiva dvudomnaya	Other	Med. Pl. Uzbekistan & Kyrgyzstan (Eisenman et al., 2013)
kugas	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kurras	Other	Trad. Med. in Syria: Folk Med. in Aleppo (Alachkara et al., 2011)
kurras harek	Other	Trad. Med. in Syria: Folk Med. in Aleppo (Alachkara et al., 2011)
nelau	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
neslerot	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Urtica spp., rad. (2008)
nesselwurzel	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. in N.I.S. (WHO, 2010)
nettle	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) Herbal Sector of Serbia (Stevanovic, 2011) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Med. Pl. in Tajikistan (Williams et al., 2012) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
nettle beer	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020)
nettle herb	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Urtica spp., herb. (2006)
nettle leaf	Other	British Pharmacop. 2009, Vol. 4 (2008) British Pharmacop. 2012, Vol. 4 (2011) British Pharmacop. 2015, Vol. 4 (2014) EMA Com. Monog.: Urtica spp., fol. (2007) European Pharmacop., 6th edn. (2007) European Pharmacop., 7th edn. (2012)
nettle root	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Urtica spp., rad. (2008) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. in N.I.S. (WHO, 2010)
nettle tops	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020)
nettles	Other	Jamaican Root Tonics (Mitchell, 2011)
nhyakan	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
nokkonen, juuri	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Urtica spp., rad. (2008)
nrobin-run-the-hedge	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020)
nõgesejuur	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Urtica spp., rad. (2008)
nātru saknes	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Urtica spp., rad. (2008)
ortica	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. in N.I.S. (WHO, 2010)
ortica maschio	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
ortica radice	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Urtica spp., rad. (2008)
ortie	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. in N.I.S. (WHO, 2010)
ortie (feuille d’)	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Urtica spp., fol. (2007)
ortie (racine d')	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Urtica spp., rad. (2008)
ortie brulante	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
ortie dioïque	Other	Med. Pl. in Djerba Island, Tunisia (Ben salah et al., 2019) Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacop.: Liste A (2000)
ortiga	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) MHT. 103 Especies Vegetales (Ministero de Salud, Chile, 2010) Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. in N.I.S. (WHO, 2010)
ortiga caballuna	Other	MHT. 103 Especies Vegetales (Ministero de Salud, Chile, 2010)
ortiga mayor	Other	MHT. 103 Especies Vegetales (Ministero de Salud, Chile, 2010) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
ortiga, hoja	Other	Farmacopea Herbolaria Mexicanos (2013)
ortiga, raíz de	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Urtica spp., rad. (2008)
pokrzywa	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. in N.I.S. (WHO, 2010)
polo	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
pulu	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
pŕhľavový koreň	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Urtica spp., rad. (2008)
qichitqi o’t	Other	Med. Pl. Chatkal Reserve, Uzbekistan (Egamberdieva et al., 2012)
qurrays	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. in N.I.S. (WHO, 2010)
racine d'ortie	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
racine d’ortie	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. in N.I.S. (WHO, 2010)
radix urticae	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. in N.I.S. (WHO, 2010)
raiz de ortiga	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. in N.I.S. (WHO, 2010)
rădăcină de urzică	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Urtica spp., rad. (2008)
sarba zaila	Other	Pl. for Musculoskeletal Disorders, N. Pakistan (Malik et al., 2018)
satu	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
seero	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
seezunkay	Other	Ethnobot. of Pl. Resources in Swat, Pakistan (Ali et al., 2011) Ethnopharm. Important Med. Pl., N Pakistan (Sher et al., 2010)
sezonkae	Other	Pl. of Shawar Valley, Pakistan (Hussain et al., 2006)
sezonkai	Other	Econ. & Ecolog. Important Pl. Commun., Pakistan (Sher et al., 2011)
sezonkay	Other	Med. Pl. in Shahgram Valley, Pakistan (Hassan et al., 2020)
shisoon	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
shisuun	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
sikya	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
sisna	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
sisno	Other	MAPs in Makawanpur, C Nepal (Bhattarai & Tamang, 2017)
sisnu	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
sisona	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sizunkay	Other	Wild Pl. of Dughalgay Valley, Pakistan (Zeb et al., 2013)
slender nettle	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
soi	Other	Ethnobot. of Monochlamydeae Pl. from Kashmir (Farooq et al., 2014)
stinger	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
stinging nettle	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) Food & Med., Rural Sweden, Ukraine & NW Russia (Stryamets et al., 2015) Food Pl. in Seven Circum-Medit. Areas (Hadjichambis et al., 2009) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Jamaican Root Tonics (Mitchell, 2011) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018) Med. Pl. Use: Tajik & Afghan Pamirs (Kassam et al., 2010) Med. Pl. Uzbekistan & Kyrgyzstan (Eisenman et al., 2013) Med. Pl. of Yaegl Community, Australia. (Packer et al., 2012) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009) U.S. Pharmacop. USP 32 (2008) U.S. Pharmacop. USP 37 (2013) U.S. Pharmacop. USP 39 (2016) U.S. Pharmacop. USP 43 (2020) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. in N.I.S. (WHO, 2010)
stinging nettle herb	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
stinking nettle	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
syak	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
tall nettle	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
tsuknida	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. in N.I.S. (WHO, 2010)
urtica	Other	Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
urtica dioica	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
urtica dioica ad praeparationes homoeopathicas	Pharmaceutical	European Pharmacop., 6th edn. (2007)
urtica dioica ad praeparationes homoeopathicas	Pharmaceutical	European Pharmacop., 7th edn. (2012)
urticae folium	Pharmaceutical	EMA Com. Monog.: Urtica spp., fol. (2007) European Pharmacop., 6th edn. (2007) European Pharmacop., 7th edn. (2012) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
urticae herba	Pharmaceutical	EMA Com. Monog.: Urtica spp., herb. (2006) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
urticae radix	Pharmaceutical	EMA Com. Monog.: Urtica spp., rad. (2008) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
urtiga	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
urtiga, raiz	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Urtica spp., rad. (2008)
urtiga-maior	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
urtiga-mansa	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
urtiga-vermelha	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
urtigão	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
vrishchhiyaa-shaaka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
vrscikali	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
wild nettles	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020)
yi zhu qian ma	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
za-chhag	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
zwa	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
zwyczajna	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. in N.I.S. (WHO, 2010)
ısırgan	Other	Med. Pl. Trade Turkey (Özhatay et al., 1997)
ρίζα κνίδης	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Urtica spp., rad. (2008)
газна	Other	Med. Pl. in Tajikistan (Williams et al., 2012)
кpaпiвa	Other	Wild Pl. for Food & Healing in Liubań, Belarus (Sõukand et al., 2017)
коприва, корен	Other	EMA Com. Monog.: Urtica spp., rad. (2008)
кропива	Other	Food & Med., Rural Sweden, Ukraine & NW Russia (Stryamets et al., 2015)
кропива дводомна	Other	Food & Med., Rural Sweden, Ukraine & NW Russia (Stryamets et al., 2015)
кропива жалка	Other	Food & Med., Rural Sweden, Ukraine & NW Russia (Stryamets et al., 2015)
انجره	Other	Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
قراص	Other	Trad. Med. in Syria: Folk Med. in Aleppo (Alachkara et al., 2011)
قراص حارق	Other	Trad. Med. in Syria: Folk Med. in Aleppo (Alachkara et al., 2011)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
flowering plant		British Pharmacop. 2015, Vol. 4 (2014)
Flowered tops		Wild Med. Pl. in M'Sila, Algeria (Boudjelal et al., 2013)
whole plant, root		Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacop.: Liste A (2000)
Folium		Native Med. Pl. of Mt. Rtanj (Zlatković et al., 2014)
folium		EMA Com. Monog.: Urtica spp., fol. (2007)
herba		EMA Com. Monog.: Urtica spp., herb. (2006)
radix		EMA Com. Monog.: Urtica spp., rad. (2008)
Aerial part		Survey in Kohghiluyeh va Boyer Ahmad, Iran (Mosaddegh et al., 2012)
root, rhizome	dried roots and rhizomes	U.S. Pharmacop. USP 39 (2016)
Herb		Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
Root, Leaf		MAPs in Makawanpur, C Nepal (Bhattarai & Tamang, 2017)
Seed		Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Whole plant		Pl. for Musculoskeletal Disorders, N. Pakistan (Malik et al., 2018)
leaves		Food Pl. in Seven Circum-Medit. Areas (Hadjichambis et al., 2009)
leaves, roots		Trad. Med. in Syria: Folk Med. in Aleppo (Alachkara et al., 2011)
Root		Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
Whole plant		Med. Pl. in Shahgram Valley, Pakistan (Hassan et al., 2020)
Whole plant		Ethnopharm. Important Med. Pl., N Pakistan (Sher et al., 2010)
Whole plant		Ethnobot. of Pl. Resources, N Pakistan (Sher & Hussain, 2009)
whole plant		Ethnobot. of Pl. Resources in Swat, Pakistan (Ali et al., 2011)
leaves	fresh leaves	Wild Pl. of Dughalgay Valley, Pakistan (Zeb et al., 2013)
leaves	dry leaves	Med. Pl. in Djerba Island, Tunisia (Ben salah et al., 2019)
roots		Ethnobot. of Monochlamydeae Pl. from Kashmir (Farooq et al., 2014)
Plant without root		Med. Pl. at Markets in S Ecuador (Tinitana et al., 2016)
leaf, root		Med. Pl. in E Black Sea Region of Turkey (Toksoy et al., 2010)
whole plant		Med. Pl. in Markets of Mashhad, Iran (Amiri & Joharchi, 2013)
seeds, flowers		Med. Pl. Chatkal Reserve, Uzbekistan (Egamberdieva et al., 2012)
leaves	dried leaves	Ethnomed. Pl. of Chamba District, India (Rani et al., 2013)
aerial parts, leaves, seeds		Wild Pl. for Food & Healing in Liubań, Belarus (Sõukand et al., 2017)
roots, rhizomes		U.S. Pharmacop. USP 43 (2020)
root, seed, vegetative parts		Med. Pl. Trade Turkey (Özhatay et al., 1997)
root, rhizome	dried root and rhizome	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004)
herb, root		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
leaf	dried, whole or cut leaf	British Pharmacop. 2009, Vol. 4 (2008)
rhizome, root	dried root and rhizome	U.S. Pharmacop. USP 32 (2008)
leaf	whole or cut dried leaf	European Pharmacop., 6th edn. (2007)
Leaf		Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)
roots, rhizomes	dried roots, dried rhizomes	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. in N.I.S. (WHO, 2010)
leaf	Whole or cut dried leaves	European Pharmacop., 7th edn. (2012)
rhizome, root	dried roots and rhizomes	U.S. Pharmacop. USP 37 (2013)
hojas, ramas, raíz, rizomas		MHT. 103 Especies Vegetales (Ministero de Salud, Chile, 2010)
hojas	hojas secas enteras, hojas secas cortadas	Farmacopea Herbolaria Mexicanos (2013)
leaves, roots, fruits		Med. Pl. Uzbekistan & Kyrgyzstan (Eisenman et al., 2013)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 3 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Urtica dioica subsp. eudioica Selander Svensk Bot. Tidskr. 231: 271 (1947), not validly publ.
Urtica dioica var. latifolia Ledeb. Fl. Altaic.: 240 (1833), not validly publ.
Urtica dioica var. vulgaris Wedd. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 16(1): 50 (1869), not validly publ.

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Urtica dioca L.	Ethnobot. of Pl. Resources in Swat, Pakistan (Ali et al., 2011) Ethnobot. of Pl. Resources, N Pakistan (Sher & Hussain, 2009) Ethnobot. of Swat Valley, Pakistan (Ali et al., 2018) Wild Pl. of Dughalgay Valley, Pakistan (Zeb et al., 2013)
Urtica dioica	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) Handbook African Med. Pl. (Iwu, 1993) Herbal Sector of Serbia (Stevanovic, 2011) Jamaican Root Tonics (Mitchell, 2011) Med. Pl. Trade Turkey (Özhatay et al., 1997) Med. Pl. and Extracts Market News Service (Brinkmann et al., 2009) Med. Pl. in Djerba Island, Tunisia (Ben salah et al., 2019) Med. Pl. in E Black Sea Region of Turkey (Toksoy et al., 2010) Med. Pl. in Shahgram Valley, Pakistan (Hassan et al., 2020) Med. Pl. in Tajikistan (Williams et al., 2012) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007) Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Urtica dioica L	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. in N.I.S. (WHO, 2010)
Urtica dioica L.	British Pharmacop. 2009, Vol. 4 (2008) British Pharmacop. 2012, Vol. 4 (2011) British Pharmacop. 2015, Vol. 4 (2014) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2017) EMA Com. Monog.: Urtica spp., fol. (2007) EMA Com. Monog.: Urtica spp., herb. (2006) EMA Com. Monog.: Urtica spp., rad. (2008) Econ. & Ecolog. Important Pl. Commun., Pakistan (Sher et al., 2011) Ethnobot. in W Granada Province, Spain (Benítez et al., 2010) Ethnobot. of Monochlamydeae Pl. from Kashmir (Farooq et al., 2014) Ethnomed. Pl. of Chamba District, India (Rani et al., 2013) Ethnopharm. Important Med. Pl., N Pakistan (Sher et al., 2010) European Pharmacop., 6th edn. (2007) European Pharmacop., 7th edn. (2012) Farmacopea Herbolaria Mexicanos (2013) Food & Med., Rural Sweden, Ukraine & NW Russia (Stryamets et al., 2015) Food Pl. in Seven Circum-Medit. Areas (Hadjichambis et al., 2009) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) MAPs in Makawanpur, C Nepal (Bhattarai & Tamang, 2017) MHT. 103 Especies Vegetales (Ministero de Salud, Chile, 2010) Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018) Med. Pl. Chatkal Reserve, Uzbekistan (Egamberdieva et al., 2012) Med. Pl. Use: Tajik & Afghan Pamirs (Kassam et al., 2010) Med. Pl. Uzbekistan & Kyrgyzstan (Eisenman et al., 2013) Med. Pl. at Markets in S Ecuador (Tinitana et al., 2016) Med. Pl. in Markets of Mashhad, Iran (Amiri & Joharchi, 2013) Med. Pl. in Sardinia & Sicily: Sardinian Subset (Leonti et al., 2009) Med. Pl. in Sardinia & Sicily: Sicilian Subset (Leonti et al., 2009) Med. Pl. in the Medit.: Project Rubia (Gonzalez-Tejero et al., 2008) Med. Pl. of Yaegl Community, Australia. (Packer et al., 2012) Med. Pl. of the Russian Pharm. (Shikov, 2014) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) Native Med. Pl. of Mt. Rtanj (Zlatković et al., 2014) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacop.: Liste A (2000) Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021) Survey in Kohghiluyeh va Boyer Ahmad, Iran (Mosaddegh et al., 2012) Sustainab. of Ethno-Med. Uses, N Pakistan (Adnan et al., 2006) Trad. Med. in Syria: Folk Med. in Aleppo (Alachkara et al., 2011) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 2 (WHO, 2004) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2019 (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2024 (WHO-UMC, 2024) Wild Med. Pl. in M'Sila, Algeria (Boudjelal et al., 2013) Wild Pl. for Food & Healing in Liubań, Belarus (Sõukand et al., 2017) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Urtica dioica L. subsp. dioica	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. Pharmacop. USP 32 (2008) U.S. Pharmacop. USP 37 (2013) U.S. Pharmacop. USP 39 (2016) U.S. Pharmacop. USP 43 (2020)
Urtica dioica L. subsp. dioica Cif. et Giac.	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Urtica dioica Linn	Pl. for Musculoskeletal Disorders, N. Pakistan (Malik et al., 2018)
Urtica dioica Linn.	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
Urtica dioica Linnaeus	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
Urtica dioica subsp. dioica L.	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Urtica dioïca	Trad. Med. of Bantu, Beni & Lubero (Kasika et al., 2014)
Utrica dioica L.	Pl. of Shawar Valley, Pakistan (Hussain et al., 2006)

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