Nettle Stings

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Justme

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I know I am very weird but I enjoy the feeling of stinging nettles, and usually sting my hands when passing a clump of nettle on my daily walks. I have heard nettle stings are helpful if you have arthritis, although I am not sure it has made any difference to mine! When I was two I was playing in one of our fields, wearing only my knickers, and I fell head first into a large clump of nettles. My mother couldn't understand why I wasn't crying in pain as I had been stung all over!
 

I do not know what nettles are, but I worked with a fellow that swore when his arthritis got really bad, he would allow a few small bees, or what I always called honey bees, to sting him and a few hours later his arthritis would hurt less. I may have read in a magazine or perhaps saw on TV that the toxin a bee injects with his stinger does have some medicinal value, or maybe I was just dreaming that. Anyway, I know of some people that were in serious pain from different ailments and they have tried many different remedies to try to lessen their pain.
 
Now that I know what nettles are, maybe I should get into a patch of them and roll around. I have a lot of arthritis in my body from different injuries and also from sitting at long periods of time.
 
oldman said:
Now that I know what nettles are, maybe I should get into a patch of them and roll around. I have a lot of arthritis in my body from different injuries and also from sitting at long periods of time.
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What do you call them if you don't call them nettles?
 
I don't know if we even have nettles here in the U.S. I take mostly cortisone shots and other types of steroids like; Naproxen and other types of pills. They help, but do not relieve all of the pain. I really don't know of any types of natural medication, unless I go to a health store, which for example would be GNC.
 
I find it strange that nettles don't grow in the US, they are one of the common weeds in the UK.
 
In my part of the country, our biggest weed problems consists of dandelions, crab grass, dollar weed, and a lot of others. I am not saying that we don't have nettles here in the U.S., but this is the first that I ever heard of such a weed. They may be grown in other parts of the U.S.

I have a lawn care company that looks after my yard, so if I see weeds, I call the company and complain. For what I pay, I have no fear of complaining.
 
A house my daughter rented a few years back had a lovely garden but there was some nettles in there too, it was quite a different one it didn't sting when you touched it but the area it touched would be numb for a few days
 
I grew up in upstate NY & we sure did have nettles up there, favored weedy, overgrown farms. I remember being scratched by them as a kid, all it took was just brushing against them lightly, kind of like what they call "jumping cactus" here in the SW. I was too young to notice any lasting effects.
 
The marijuana plant is a member of the nettle family.

I've only come in contact with an actual stinging nettle once in my life in high school PE class & that was enough for me.

Not as bad as a Portugese Man of War sting though.

You do NOT want one of those.

Imagine a red hot wire lying on your skin for about an hour or two.
 
My one painful ordeal with stinging nettle was to read that if you boil some as tea, let it cool, and then apply it--it takes away the pain.
IT WORKED!! Kind of homeopathic: like cures like. :)
 
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