Nettle soup

Today I want to share with you a recipe that like to eat the soup in the spring, when a young nettle grows.
@haphazard-hstead that inspires people. He always prepares something interesting and unusual and I wanted to cook this soup.

Ingredients:
karpolya - 5 pcs
Carrots - 1 pc
nettle - beam
Eggs - 3 pcs
smetena - 5 tablespoons
ketchup or tomato juice - 3 tbsp.
parsley, dill
spices to taste
salt

1. Potatoes peel and cut into cubes.
2. Grate carrots and fry in vegetable oil.
   
3. Nettles pour boiling water so as not stung by hand. Cut.
   
4. Cook the eggs. Cut into cubes.
   
5. In a saucepan pour water, add potatoes and carrots. When the potatoes are cooked add the eggs and nettle.
   
6. Add salt to taste, sour cream and ketchup.
   
   Add spices, parsley and dill.

Nettle can be used as the svizhovichavlenogo out juice, and also as dry powder of leaves, to do extracts, prepare decoctions. In quality of medical raw material more frequent all use the leaves of nettle: there are many useful matters in him. In the sheet of nettle there is ascorbic acid (strong antioxidant), vitamins of V1, V2, K, chlorophyll, glycosides, carotin, ant and ferulova organic acids.

The leaves of nettle in folk medicine help in the cases of failing or surplus of vitamins (gipo- and avitaminosis). The extract of leaves is applied at a quinsy as rinses. Also he can be used as a preventive for the cavity of mouth, foremost, for strengthening of gums, treatment of gingivitis, parodontitu, to stomatitu. The leaves of nettle are applied at zakrepakh, piles, diarei, diseases of liver.

From the leaves of nettle, dried up or fresh, brew tea. Tea with nettle is instrumental in the increase of immunity, helps in the prophylaxis of cold diseases, facilitates the symptoms of arthritis. The dried up nettle finds out an excellent bactericidal action, that is why from it sprinkle wounds powder. Nettle in medicine is often used in the case of the different bleeding, because vitamin K which in it is contained promotes making of protrombinu which rolls up blood.