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Finding Stinging Nettle, Urtica diocia, growing in the mountains of Italy. I was 19, grappling with hormonal imbalance, cystic acne, malnutrition, and emotional turmoil. I had just moved 3,000 miles to Portland, Oregon, with $2,000 in my pocket, knowing absolutely no one on the West Coast. Everything felt like it was crumbling. I had three things going for me: I was curious, I maintained a regular yoga, meditation, and workout routine, and I surely was not going back to the W