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 with no gloves, of course. I grabbed a handful of nettles and my
hand swelled up like a puffer fish. It took most of the day for the
swelling to go down. After that, I used my gloves :D
Jenny Barron wrote:
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 for arthritis but it's still fairly early in my Sunday
morning so I could be misremembering that
jenny barron
Scotland
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