I usually use a poultice of baking soda paste in bites and stings but maybe the wasp cured whatever was amiss!

but by the time I got back into the house yesterday, the pain was gone, so I didn't do it.

Yes, nothing beats a good ol' baking soda poultice for bug stings!

years after a nasty hobo spider attack all over my face. I still have to do face mud packs from time to time and I'm thankful I even have a face after that and got out with minor issues including nerve damage.

A funny story, similar to your wasp bite that happened to me a couple weeks ago. I was at a friend's place about an hour from my home helping with a harvest. Seriously, I went to visit at the end of August only to find my friend freaking out about finding help and a methodology for harvesting an experimental crop pf hemp. He recruited me to be the foreman of the operation and I ended up staying there for five weeks running the operation!

So, after several weeks of being so busy managing operations, I was finally able to get out in the field to revel in the plantation and condition of the unharvested plants. They are just like pot plants only GM'ed to have no THC in them yet retain all the other canabinoids.(sp?) The resin sticks to your fingers or gloves as you handle them to clip the buds. Well there was a yellow jacket on a bud that I grabbed and kind of rolled it off the inside of my index finger and didn't think I had been stung. The spot was a little irritated during the rest of the day but as it got covered in sticky resin I didn't really feel it anymore, I forgot all a out it until the next day. I had showered that evening and when I got up in the morning, my finger had a small black spot in the middle of a tiny, dry blister. I forgot about the yellow jacket until after pulling the little black thing out of the skin wondering what that was about. So I guess hemp has some serious healing properties we have yet to explore! Maybe I'll make a poultice of that next time I need a quick healing something.

I was partly paid in product so I have been working on recipes for tonics, tinctures, slaves and whatever else I can come up with for uses. I like having more than one option for natural healing methods, now that I have some of this plant, I'll include it in my other blends as well. I already make my own moisturizing lotion, skin healing and subcutaneous healing topicals. And then there's diet.

Maybe that was the cure you needed at the time, a good old wasp sting! Nature works in amazing ways!

... it was your fix my boo-boo guardian angel.

The whole leg will be in a cast for a month.

You shouldn't squish your guardian angel !

It made me all better, and what did it get? Smooshed by a broom handle!

I'm trying to, anyway.

it sounds as if it could've been a gout thing going on in your hand. Then along comes vespidae and voilla! Who knows, instant cure?

although otherwise my hands have always been okay, and I have no (other?) gout symptoms.

If the hand pain doesn't return, the sting will have been worth it. If it does, no way! That sting was horrendously painful. It was my first sting since...well, maybe ever. I don't remember being stung by a wasp before. Now I'll be on the lookout for the little varmints, that's for sure!

But wasps and yellowjackets? I hate those buggers. They have no problem letting you know you're a bit too close.

Look up bee venom.
Also apitherapy via Google has some sites.

Regards,
Crow

I did, and was amazed at all the info there is on it. Apitherapy isn't something I'd ever try. The wasp sting apparently fixed me up, but according to what I've read, another one could kill me. I'd never intentionally be injected with wasp or bee venom. No way!