Weronika said
I'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
I found out the hard way that I'm very allergic to stinging nettles.
When we lived in Nebraska the house we bought had a little spot fenced
off for a garden. It hadn't been tended for a long time, though, and was
very overgrown with weeds. I started to clean it up and was pulling the
weeds
