Nettles

Been reading up on Stinging Nettles, and found this great page:
http://www.acupuncturebrooklyn.com/alternative-health/nettles

A much-maligned but highly beneficial plant. Balancing/restoring kidney function, reduces benign prostate enlargement, helps with asthma and allergic rhinitis, helps clear congestion and phlegm, helps with arthritis, may possibly help with sugar-levels for diabetics (hasn't been tested on humans yet), good for the liver, helps with gout...

Contains Vitamins A & C and also K, iron, magnesium, potassium, manganese, silica, and calcium.

Anglo-Saxon Nine Herb Charm

Posting so I don't lose the link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Herbs_Charm

One of the nine sacred herbs in this charm is Nettles.

I have a book somewhere on A-S medicine I need to find now...