The uses of stinging nettles Although many of us might choose to avoid them because of their sting, nettles have many uses and are a prominent part of history. As far back as the Roman period, there ...

Of course, I had to include stinging nettles on this list of plants you should never touch. A lot of my childhood memories involve rubbing dock leaves on nettle stings, and because they're so common ...

Where you see weeds, I see dinner! Spring is truly in the air, most of the trees are bursting into leaf and the crows are making a terrific racket in the trees behind the house. They have been ...

Stinging nettle: These leaves are packed with so much nutrition such as magnesium, calcium and iron which help to improve immunity and haemoglobin in the body. Alfalfa: This herb is also known as ...

Meet the most common botanical interlopers you're likely to find in your garden or vegetable patch, and learn how to treat ...

Photo / Greg Dixon Stinging nettle soup: Looks like grass but tastes like, well, good soup. Photo / Greg Dixon First, harvest your bastards. Carefully. If you can find chainmail gloves, grab those.

As the dummy treatment needed to mimic the physiological effect of the dock leaf, and be of similar size, shape, and texture, but contain no anti-inflammatory or toxic properties, a sweet gem lettuce ...

You don’t need a dock-leaf for your nettle stings Since we were kids, our parents and grandparents have passed wisdom to the next generation. Part of that wisdom was the belief that only a dock leaf ...

They were then blindfolded. After 60 seconds—to mimic the time it might take to find a dock leaf in real life—the participants rolled a die. If an odd number was rolled, 2 dock leaves were rubbed on ...

A team of UK emergency department doctors stung their own arms with nettles to test the folk remedy of relieving nettle stings using dock leaves in what they called the Nettle-induced Urticaria ...

In Britain, dock leaves often grow close to stinging nettle s and so it has become the first port of call after an unwitting brush against the treacherous plant tips.

When it comes to the annoying burning sting of the stinging nettle nothing seems to soothe the pain quite like a dock leaf. However, scientists now say that you would be just as well off rubbing ...