This blog gets about 10 to 15 hits per day from internet searches on “bull nettle” or something similar. All of this makes me really curious. If you have come here to read about bull nettle please leave a comment about why you are interested in this plant. Maybe I can use your comments to come up with a new interesting essay about this interesting plant. Thanks.
Oh, here’s the link to the earlier piece about bull nettle.
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I am looking for a treatment for a severe reaction to the sting. From my knee down to my toes is extremely swollen with discoloration, huge blisters, pain and an intense itch. I have tried antihistamines and cream, to no avail.
Going to http://www.rawfamily.com we found that stinging nettle was very nutritious blended into a green smoothie. We harvested some yesterday in an old cemetery near Buffalo, TX and tried it. It was actually very tasty with mango and lemon but found that “stinging nettle” is different than what we picked, which was “bull nettle.” Now we have to find out if “bull nettle” is as nutritious or is just another “plant from hell.” In picking it with my knife I had a plastic bag over my hand and it STILL pierced the bag and GOT me. How on earth….?
Like Laura, I am looking for an effective treatment. I have been puzzled by the source of the awful swelling and itching I have been suffering this summer. It always occurs after a fishing expedition on the Paluxy river. I thought it was some type of insect bite or aquatic parasite. However, I know that I came into contact with nettle on the last trip and the symptoms described seem to confirm this as nettle stings.
I have been an outdoorsman all my life but have never had a reaction to anything that was this much bother.
crash sour dock roots will relive the pain in sec.
you can eat the nut too, raw or cooked
roasted them at different amount, and the taste change at each level of roasted.and it roasted a lot they taste like coffee
my grand mother was 1/2 Indian and teach me all about different kind of plants in Texas
make sure to remove the waxing end and then crack them open to get at the nut.
I am interested in the medicinal uses for bull nettle, if it has any, thought it might help relieve some allergy symptoms, but not sure. For so much defense, this little stinging plant sure has great defenses.
Treatment for the stinging and itching – rub the affected area with wet sand, i.e. spit in some sand/dirt and rub the area – works for me every time.
also, want to try some of the seeds (nuts?) sounds interesting.
I am interested because I have literally hundreds of the plants on my property. I keep chopping them out of the ground. I’ve gotten rid of most of them but not all. Been stung many times.
I’m interested because I have them growing all over my place and heard somewhere they were edible. From reading posts tonight it seems that they are edible as young leaves and not as the flowering plants I have now. The nuts are edible in the fall? Maybe I’ll try that before I try to kill them out.
Knew an old timer that boiled the roots to make tea for certain illness.
My daughter is a photographer and got stung by the nettle while doing some photo shoot for senior pictures… with welts on her ankles and prom soon to come we are searching for some remedies! Your site was the best we found.