A cauldron of herbs for a nameless illness
In Ağrı, for internal illnesses she could not name, a woman healer boiled herbs known locally as pılınk (wild mint), belhavz (greater plantain), gezgezk (stinging nettle) and gelenkotu in a large cauldron, and the patient was washed with this water for a few days. She also gave a tea of the same herbs and common mallow to drink. She had learned this from her mother.
Source: Ekrem Sezik, Erdem Yeşilada, Mamoru Tabata ve ark., “Traditional medicine in Turkey VIII. Folk medicine in East Anatolia”, Economic Botany 51(3), 1997 (Sezik et al., Economic Botany, 1997). This is a folk record, not a treatment recommendation.
Nettle water for falling hair