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Nettles, Sound Maps and the Cattle of Culloden

Scotland Outdoors

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Finding Nettles or Docks?

There is a fine tradition of physicians kind of experimenting on themselves in more or less dramatic ways. Nobel Prizes have been won by physicians drinking broths of bacteria such as H.Pylori and proving that they were a cause of stomach ulcers among many other experiments. So what did you find after a wee while? Did you find that your both arms were just the same or did you get more relief from the dock leaf? I would say it was exactly the same, both sides. But interestingly, there was a visible rash on my left arm when I rubbed it with a dock leaf and there was nothing on the right arm. Maybe the lettuce is actually more effective.

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