If you don't have dock leaves to hand, you're just as well off rubbing lettuce on your nettle stings, scientists claimed last month. While the research left Brits in 'disbeleaf', it's not just the ...

Most of us think of weeds as annoying shrubs that ruin the aesthetics of a yard or garden with zero value. But before you pluck and discard, make sure stinging nettle isn't one of those weeds — unless ...

Many imaginative and optimistic medicinal claims made for dock leaves over the years, but it is the broad-leaved dock’s reputation for alleviating nettle stings that has survived the centuries. The ...

MUNCIE, Ind. – My introduction to stinging nettle came in my youth when a group of us went swimming in a local farm pond. Instead of exiting the way I entered, I decided to climb up an unmown bank.