Re: [at-l] Jewelweed

["Alice Kauzlarich" <kauzlar@madison.main.nc.us>]

You know you can eat stinging nettles?  I don't have any recipes though.
 The Highlander


                                                      

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> From: Debbie_Smith@Millipore.com
> To: at-l@backcountry.net
> Subject: [at-l] Jewelweed
> Date: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 6:09 AM
> 
> 
> 
> Wildbill said:
> <<The great thing about Jewel Weed is that it often grows right next to
> Poison Ivy and is fairly common along roadsides.>>
> 
> Well, I've never used it on poison ivy, but I did use it twice last year
> during my thruhike for stinging nettles!  It also grows right alongside
> those most places too.  I'd never seen stinging nettles before but got
> 'stung' in both VA and VT... luckily I DID know about jewelweed.  It
really
> does work.  It seems that nature places the remedy with the problem, if
> only you know where to look :-)  I'll have to try it for Poison Ivy in
the
> future (but hopefully I'll NEVER get it again!)
> 
> Twilight
> GA>ME '98
> 
> 
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