Distraction could be provided by rubbing the patient with counterirritants such as stinging nettles. |
This is rarer and is usually caused by weeds such as nettles and docks, late flowering plants and fungal spores. |
Meadow flowers, like cow parsley and nettles, were being grazed by the occasional elk or aurochs. |
He wanders in the nearby hills and woods to gather cuckooflowers, cowslips, stitchworts, elder flowers and of course nettles. |
Using rubber gloves, put nettles in two litres of salted boiling water for a second to remove the sting then plunge them into iced water. |
I wrapped up under plenty of layers, but could still feel the cold inside my gloves and the nettles along the side of the road were frosty. |