'I fill my socks with stinging nettles for health benefit very few know about'

Wild forager Jack says communal stinging nettles person an 'underestimated' healing power, and has filmed himself filling his socks with them earlier putting them on

A chaotic foraging adept who bizarrely fills his socks with stinging nettles has advised we should "never underestimate" the powerfulness of the communal plant.

Jack shares health proposal based connected the earthy ingredients helium comes crossed successful his adventures successful the British wild, and precocious hailed the healing properties of nettles via his TikTok relationship (@wildforageruk).

His latest video began with him sitting barefoot successful the woods, rubbing his feet crossed stinging nettles earlier picking respective and placing them wrong his socks. "You whitethorn beryllium wondering wherefore I'm doing this," helium admitted. "What if I told you however bully these are for you?"

Jack said: "They're truthful bully for arthritis and blocking the enzymes and getting the humor to travel done the areas and joints wherever you're suffering with pain."

Braving the stinging sensation, Jack enactment his socks backmost connected and declared: "This is critical. This is escaped medicine. If you are suffering with arthritis, I truly bash urge you travel retired and effort this - I person truthful galore radical present doing this and benefitting from a nettle sting and surviving a comfier life."

Emphasising his point, Jack adjacent rubbed nettles connected his arms and face, adding that the works is "amazing for our skin, for our joints, and for our mundane living". He closed: "Also, if you endure from hay fever, it's perfectly astonishing arsenic a earthy antihistamine."

Charity Versus Arthritis backs up Jack's advice, explaining connected its website: "Nettle leaves are covered successful tiny hairs which person a precocious silicon content, meaning they’re highly brittle. When the leafage touches your skin, the circular tips of the hairs interruption off.

"The crisp constituent of the hairsbreadth past enters your tegument and respective chemicals, including histamine and serotonin, are produced. These chemicals tin assistance to trim symptom by stimulating symptom neurons, truthful the tegument irritation overrides musculoskeletal pain."

Responding to Jack's suggestion, 1 TikTok idiosyncratic highlighted: "I was suffering from genu pains past week erstwhile I went to Richmond Park. I conscionable rubbed my knees to the nettle works and I was wondering each symptom has gone, this is magic mate perfectly worked for me."

A 2nd hailed: "That's aged cognition and it's existent facts... my grandma and parent told maine astir benefits of rubbing it connected your skin." And a 3rd spoke from experience: "I've done that and it works!"