Beki, I only use the jewelweed ice cubes to treat the rash, not to wash the initial urishol contact off. Lenny
Lenny Librizzi Council on the Environment 51 Chambers Street room 228 NY,NY 10007 212-788-7927 phone 212-788-7913 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cenyc.org -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 1/4/2008 12:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Community_garden] How NOT to deal with Poison Ivy OK, I've got to jump in here and relate a story about poison oak. Lenny, you may do well using jewel weed ice cubes, but when my eight-year-old daughter tried to 'wash' the urishol off her arm using ice cubes (the only water we had at that picnic), she ended up SPREADING the oil and rubbing it thoroughly into her skin. The resulting rash was the densest mass of PO blisters I have ever seen, and the poor child was very miserable. My herbalist friend Adam Seller recommended masking the area with dolomite clay, which has a powerful drawing effect as it dries. I do believe that helped, but it was still weeks before she was PO free. Beki Filipello -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20080108/e48b9900/attachment.html _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
