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[Claude William Genest <genest@together.net>]

I think the book "Grasp the nettle" explains how if you look at and
consciouly "see" the plant before touching it, you have effectively told
your body not to elicit the histaminic reaction and so inhibit the
stinging.. I have tried this repeatedly and I'd say it reduces 90% of the
sting... Try it !

Claude


> My girlfriend Ayars seems to have an affinity of some kind with nettles.
> She says she rather likes the feel of the 'sting', which apparently isn't
> a sting to her like it is to me.  She'll wade right into a patch
> bare-handed... :-o
> 
> 
> John Schinnerer, MA
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