Nettle sting cure from the 50s

contributed by Ethnomedica 21 Jan | 09:02

If one got a sting of a nettle and one rubbed a dock leaf it would cure it, and we did this as children and it seemed to bring relief. I am going back to the 1950s and 1960s, as I was born in 1951

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From Ireland in the 1950s

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