We had one in our troop during a camp out who when the rest of use were smoking grape vines, smoked a poison ivy vine, and it almost killed him.

Marshall

Day Sutton wrote:
There is an old story about a Boy Scout who cut an Oleander branch to roast his hotdog
on and it killed him.....very toxic stuff...

On 7/6/07, *Jonathan B. Britten * <jbrit...@cc.nakamura-u.ac.jp <mailto:jbrit...@cc.nakamura-u.ac.jp>> wrote:


    I have information from an expert herbalist that a low-cost --
    virtually free -- home-brew concoction made from the leaves of a very
    toxic plant has powerful anti-cancer properties very similar to the
    famous Cansema Tonic III.    The poisonous plant is Oleander, which
    goes by various other names.

    Wikipedia has a good page on Oleander, and if one Google's "Oleander
    Soup" some  home-brew recipes can be found.   Reportedly these yield a
    decoction identical in effect to a patented drug that made it through
    stage one trials with the FDA, and evidently went no further.

    As always, proceed with caution and at your own risk.   By the
    way, the
    toxic aspects of this plant sound very similar to an unrelated
    American
    wild plant known as "mountain laurel."  Boy scouts and other campers
    learn not to burn it, as even the smoke is highly toxic.   I was once
    told that Native Americans bent on suicide might turn to mountain
    laurel.

    I never did find a recipe for a home-brew cansema,  but the
    information
    I got may prove more useful, as I was aiming at providing information
    to persons without many financial resources.    Oleander soup is
    unbeatable on that basis, except for Graviola, which also grows widely
    in SE Asia.

    I am tracking the reported slow recovery of a doctor-diagnosed stage
    four cancer patient who is drinking graviola tea -- leaves and
    twigs --
    on a daily basis, and has quickly given up daily morphine use for
    pain.
       Sounds like progress to me, God willing.

    Had it not been for the cansema search, I doubt I'd ever have heard of
    Oleander, despite having open ears.   Spread the word (with
    CAVEATS IN
    LARGE TYPE.)


    On Friday, Jul 6, 2007, at 18:13 Asia/Tokyo, Mark Siepak wrote:

    > Poison ivy, oak, and sumac do not 'spread:' the skin just takes
    longer
    > to react in some areas that don't have as much urushiol on them. It
    > appears that it is 'spreading,' when it is, in fact, a delayed
    > reaction.


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