Unbelievable: Rubbed His Body with Nettle Leaves for Three Weeks, and This is What Happened

It might sound crazy, but when Goran Pavlovic discovered the health benefits of the nettle bush, it was under particularly painful circumstances due to his hay fever. "Anyone who has ever dealt with hay fever knows it's one of the most annoying illnesses out there," Pavlovic wrote in a post that quickly went viral.

"The sneezing wouldn't stop, the fever kept rising, and the nose wouldn't stop running," he describes. "I've suffered from hay fever my whole life, but a few years ago, an old man revealed to me a secret that had been in his family for years: nettle leaves. He advised me to pick the prickly leaves right at the start of spring and rub my body with them once a week, for several weeks."

Initially, Pavlovic was skeptical of the old man's advice. "But then, the more I thought about it, I realized I had nothing to lose. What could it possibly do to my immune system? Drive it crazier than it already was?"

Pavlovic decided to follow the old man's advice and rubbed his hands with nettle flower powder for three weeks and lo and behold - it worked. "Today, I'm three years after that 'treatment,' and the illness hasn't returned since."

What actually helped treat the symptoms of the illness? According to professionals, the stinging of the nettle, containing formic acid and histamine, helped reduce the level of toxins in the body.

In our tiny country, nettle grows wild and is mainly used as fodder for animals, but in the old days, traditional medicine used nettle leaves for various medical problems, including treating arthritis and cleansing the blood of acids and toxins.