1066familyman
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- Jan 15, 2008
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I once read that an old cure for Pneumonia was to strip the sufferer naked and roll them in stinging nettles. The resulting shock from the stings would send the whole immune system into overdrive and in the process combat the pneumonia. Genius when you think about it !
I remember one year picking blackberries. I had a pain in the arm before I started picking. During picking said arm got covered in stings. I went with it - in a perverse kind of way the intense tingling actually felt quite good (no, I'm not ordinarily into that kind of thing). Next day, pain in the arm totally gone ! Could have been coincidence that the pain would have gone anyway, but it did seem to stop quite suddenly, and I believe it was the nettles 'wot did the trick'
I remember one year picking blackberries. I had a pain in the arm before I started picking. During picking said arm got covered in stings. I went with it - in a perverse kind of way the intense tingling actually felt quite good (no, I'm not ordinarily into that kind of thing). Next day, pain in the arm totally gone ! Could have been coincidence that the pain would have gone anyway, but it did seem to stop quite suddenly, and I believe it was the nettles 'wot did the trick'