Use dock for sunburn or nettle stings

contributed by Ethnomedica 21 Jan | 09:16

As children in the 1920s dock leaves were picked to ease nettle stings and sunburn … we would wrap these around arms and legs

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From Vale of Glamorgan (UK) in the 1920s

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