Thread: BUSH HUNTING TIPS "Cure for bush nettle"

Originally Posted by R93

When up on that other island I was chuckling to my self how hungry the sika are to browse the nettle as much as they had where we were.
The stems had been chewed right back.
Thinking it was safe I pushed thru it to get access to a small clearing. A deer had the last laugh, it must have caught a branch up as it fed thru it.
That branch once freed as I moved thru the thicket smacked me right between the eyes.
It had its full compliment of spines on it that's for sure.
It was going to ruin my day until I found a doc plant and scrubbed my mellon with it.
Wasn't instant relief but it didn't bother me much afterward unless I touched where I was zapped.
Never heard the fern shute trick but doc leaf will help.

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I was always taught to singe the dock and then crush it to get the juice out and rub on. An old maori fella told me that about 40 years ago, works well