Subject: Re: Stinging Nettles
From: [email-masked] (Jarkko Lapinlampi)
Date: 12 May 1994 15:41:39 GMT
Newsgroups: bionet.plants

:  BTW (this from my Boy Scout days) nettle makes a fairly good potherb, the 
:  formic acid being destroyed/removed by boiling.  

and finns use bunches of fresh stinging nettles to beat themselves with in
the sauna - the stinging liquid evaporates in the heat before it can
harm your skin.
- HeK