Usage examples (8)

• For sciatica, for incipient wasting, for the difficult breathing of some heart troubles (where such stimulation along the backbone affords more prompt and complete relief than...
• Numerous old cases of pleasure in flagellation and urtication were brought together by Schurig in 1720 in his
• In a particularly medieval-sounding treatment, urtication, or "flogging with nettles," the raw plant is rubbed on the skin to help rheumatism.
• The employment of urtication is of great antiquity, for Celsus as well as Aretæus mentions the use of it, it being in those times, a popular remedy.