On Dec 19, 2004, at 4:23, Jenny Barron wrote:
Weronika saidI've also heard getting stung by nettles is actually healthy (may be completely
false), so people might have used them for that too. Although it's a very bad
idea now, especially when they grow next to roads and such - they accumulate all
sorts of nasty stuff.
I think it's used for arthritis but it's still fairly early in my Sunday morning so I could be misremembering that
Whipping with stinging nettles is used for arthritis; you remembered a-right, early Sunday morning or no :) But various parts and forms of nettles are used as a cure for almost anything, it seems:
http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/Plants.Folder/Nettle.html
I've never seen a stinging nettle in my part of Virginia; every time I spot something that looks like it, it turns out to be a mint plant... Not that I miss them *very* much :)
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