Don’t know about bee balm for this – but from what I hear, plantain rocks for this type thing.

Lora Elrod wrote:

Can bee balm be used to decrease the effects of bee stings?

Plantain is great. I’ve heard yarrow is quite good but haven’t tried it. Native Americans used ground bee balm leaf for stings. I haven’t tried that one either.

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Lora Elrod

Don’t know where you are from but here on the east coast we use jewelweed. It works almost immediately.

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Carly Bjornstad

I make a poultice of ground up plantain leaves, lavender bud (if ive got any growing), bentonite clay and sometimes activated charcoal (i keep a bottle in my cupboard and just break open a capsule). Mix it all with a little water and make a paste. Spread the paste onto the area stung, place a piece of gauze over and wrap it up to keep in place. Works so nice! Also, if your out and about and dont have all that, but ca. Find plantain, then give it a good chew to grind it and then place it on the sting area, wrap it with whatever you’ve got (ive used a hankerchief). Plantain is awesome

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My 5 year old granddaughter got stung by something at the park this weekend (maybe Yellowjacket?) I quickly found a plantain leaf, chewed it up, put in on the sting.  Within minutes it stopped hurting and by morning you couldn’t even see where she had been stung!