Thread: BUSH HUNTING TIPS "Cure for bush nettle"

Originally Posted by Pengy

Funny how some things cross the world.
It is very common practice in England to use Dock leaves to rub on nettle stings for relief. Different nettle and most likely different Dock though.
I have flashbacks to about age 6 when I crashed by pushbike into a huge patch of nettles on a campsite, while wearing only a pair of shorts.

yep
british nettles are the lite version.they're even made into tea...
MARK

Would have been good to know last roar, everyone in my group got to feel its sting. One guy slipped on a bank and went for a slide under a patch his bald head got stung bad.
I read somewhere that you can also make tea or an infusion out of the nz nettle too.