Just tried this yesterday,taking a bouquet of stinging nettle and rubbing it into my arthritic,inflamed elbow.15 minutes later, no pain,no kidding.next day,still no pain.
Sure beats aleeve or ibu.
Figured I'd throw it out 🌿
Just tried this yesterday,taking a bouquet of stinging nettle and rubbing it into my arthritic,inflamed elbow.15 minutes later, no pain,no kidding.next day,still no pain.
Sure beats aleeve or ibu.
Figured I'd throw it out 🌿
Thanks for the info. Did it not hurt quite a bit for a while?
Crushed jewelweed, which likes the same habitats, is good for relieving the sting. Would it then reduce the effectiveness?
Jewelweed
In the mtns is also used as a remedy for poison ivy. Crush and rub.
The times I have walked through stinging nettle it was more of an annoyance rather than a painful event.
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The sting goes away after a bit,so no big deal,the disapearance of arthritic pain was wonderful. Tea is great and I'm going on a major foraging hike here in a bit,load up ,dry it out and grind it down.
I'll look up jewelweed.thanks
Good to know.Thanks!
I had never heard of them growing in Maine but one day I was doing corridor boundary maintenance on the AT in Maine between Hall and Moody mountain in a pair of shorts and discovered a large patch of them after I strolled through them.
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