Used mud paste as a kid, my grandma would always put bleach on our beestings if we got stung at her place. Haven't done anything but suck it up in years. I became allergic to yellowjackets and hornets on the coast after being stung too many times as a kid and would have to take Benadryl after being stung and would be as rummy as if I drank a fifth of whiskey. Have never had a reaction to any bees here and have been stung probably a hundred times in the last twenty years. I know half a dozen other people who were allergic to them on the Pacific coast also (a couple of them deathly so) none of them have an allergic reaction to the local bees either. Not sure what the difference is, maybe what they eat?

Hot shot cattle prod so I've been told.
And a low dose from a taser for a rattle snake bite.
Just hear say.
Something about the electrical shock neutralizing the venom.

Hot shot cattle prod so I've been told.
And a low dose from a taser for a rattle snake bite.
Just hear say.
Something about the electrical shock neutralizing the venom.

Yesterday I got hammered by a bunch of yellowjackets.

I thought about this post and started looking for some plantain. I found jewelweed first. I broke open some stems, and rubbed a bunch of juice (sap) on each sting.

The pain was gone in five minutes, and after about 20, I had forgotten all about it. There is not even any residual swelling.
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I have used jewelweed for poison ivy in the past, and I make a salve from it. This, though is the first time I've used it fresh out of God's container, and I couldn't be more impressed.