A friend was talking about being highly allergic to wasp stings and needing an auto-injectable device that delivers the drug epinephrine* prescribed by his doctor.
I said the Chinese home remedy for bee stings is vinegar.
This reminds me of a BBC Radio 4 listener talking about his experience on a holiday in Greece in the 1980s.
He’d trodden on some sea urchins on the beach, leapt up in pain, and promptly landed on more of them. Both his feet were covered in urchin spines. At the hospital, they painstakingly — and painfully — removed each spine with a pair of tweezers.
Hearing this, another listener phoned in to say he’d also stepped on some sea urchins during a beach holiday on some small Greek island. The locals sliced up some tomatoes (which are ubiquitous in their diet), plastered them all over his feet, and the spines just popped out after a little while of their own accord.
(Greece, 1980s)
*A life-saving medication for those who have a severe allergic reaction to things like venom, food or medication.
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