Luke O'Neill
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4,397 appearances
23 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6d ago
Luke O'Neill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And therefore you feel the pain or whatever the animal might be that's rubbing off the nettle.
A silica tip breaks off the nettle and then it's full of all these liquids that go in the histamine, the acetylcholine, the acids and cause all this irritation.
So nettles, that's the basis for nettle stings as well.
And then lastly, the old wives tale of dock leaves.
Do they work?
Well, do you know what they do?
Kind of.
Now, they work because they cool things down a bit.
So if you rub a bit of a dock leaf into a nettle, the liquids in the dock leaves are slightly at room temperature, whatever, and they'll reduce the heat slightly.
And that's been happening because of the irritation, I suppose.
And they're also quite moist.
Remember, there'll be liquid water in the dock leaf that'll dilute out some of this stuff.
So probably that's how the dock leave works.
It cools things down like a cold compress in a way.
And then some of the water will help dilute stuff out and that makes the whole thing less unpleasant.
So it does work a little bit.
But again, just like the wasp and the bee, wash it to get rid of some of the stuff that's causing the irritation gently.
A cold compress as well, you know, will cool everything down.
And that's the advice with the nettle sting.
and eventually the pain will subside.
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