is there a past "Bush remedy" post somewhere

[whitey]

My wife was bitten by a massive jumping ant on our recent camping trip up at Biggera on the Murray and the quick fix for the pain was to break off the leaf off a nearby Bracken bush and rub the juice on it .... the sting ease came out of a 1st aid box later on but wasn't needed .... anymore hints we should keep handy.

[Chippy76]

Dock weed is good for stinging nettles ...

Cheers Chippy

[speewa158]

VB or Bundy if reality sets in 

[Skinnee]

Pig face or bi carb to neutralize the acid, if using bi carb make a paste with water and chuck on. basically anything that is alkali

[Patr80l]

Trouble is you need to be a botanist to apply the right plant!

Standard first aid teaching is ice/cold for insect bites and most spider bites (exception being funnel web spider which is treated the same as a snake bite with pressure-immobilisation).

Bicarb as a solution or paste is good for itch but I don't think acid is the problem with bites.   More to do with venom and histamine and other vasoactive mediators.   Stingose etc have a local anaesthetic so make it numb.

I've seen cut aloe vera leaves work miracles on mosquito bites.

[baldheadedgit]

Dock weed is good for stinging nettles ...

Cheers Chippy

Ok,,, Stinging nettles i still see, but not seen  "Dock weed"  since i left the UK, and that was over 40 years ago..?? so where you hiding it Chippy......

BHG

[Chippy76]

plenty of it up our way ... kinda handy that it grows withthe stinging nettles! lol

Cheers Chippy

[dav]

I used coca cola on a box jelly fish sting it stopped the sting quickly. I was out on a boat and got stung on the arm pulling up the anchor rope.