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Poison Plant Thread - Input, pictures, and cures needed!

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Okay - I would love to have a comprehensive thread on all the poisonous plants that you can think of, pictures of them for identification, and cures (how to clean off oil, stop the spreading of the rash, and cure the rash.


Here is a decent start - a thread about how to spot poison ivy and the many impostors.

http://poisonivy.aesir.com/view/picqna.html

please give help if you have pictures, input or cures, if you KNOW they work and are safe.


TF
 
A compress/poultice of jewel weed works great for poison ivy relief.

Harvest the plant by chopping it at the base. Get enough to make a nice size bundle in your hand. Chop it up, leaves & stem both, into small chunks & put it in a baggie on ice. Get as much as you can, but be sure to leave the roots & some of the plants in place so that the patch is there next season when you need it again. Take it home, pop it in the blender to turn it into a paste, & there you go! Some people boil it instead of blending. You can freeze the paste, & it will keep for up to a year.

To use it, (thaw it out if necessary) just slather it on like you would a burn treatment & put something over it to keep it from getting all over your clothes. Let it sit there for few hours, & repeat as necessary. If you're in the field, just mash up a few plants and rub them on the inflamed area.

The relief for me is almost instantaneous. No itching at all, & the rash goes away much quicker than with other treatments.

I have some pic's from a big patch my coworker found this summer along the Big Sioux River, but I don't have any web hosted at the moment. Here's a link to some pic's I found with google: http://www.bio.brandeis.edu/fieldbio/Sylvain/jewel_weed.html
 
I did a poison ivy id thingy for my site. Maybe it'll be help to someone.
Poison ivy id
I tried to get fairly comprehensive in a common man's sorta way. If that makes sense.:o
Iz
 
Over here we use the juice from a young braken fern stem to take the sting out of ant bites and stinging nettles.

Has anyone tried this on Poison Ivy?



Kind regards
Mick
 
Many of you may have a houseplant called dieffenbachia.
Here

Dumb cane. Numbs the mouth and can cause windpipe problems. No good if you have kids.
Ever bite into a green persimmon ? Like that but far worse.
 
Toucan Oasis said:
Many of you may have a houseplant called dieffenbachia.
Here

Dumb cane. Numbs the mouth and can cause windpipe problems. No good if you have kids.
Ever bite into a green persimmon ? Like that but far worse.
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I hate these God-forsaken plants. Bad childhood experience. :mad:
 
Hey Southern Cross, it works! The braken sap works on that major stinging broad leaf plant that I can't remember the name of ... but I sure can remember the pain. Tooth paste sort of works too, but not as well as sting goes.

Talfuchre, We're lucky over here to have tea tree and eucalyptus which are an excellent medicine source. As for identifying the poisonous plants ... I'm working on it. Even our toxic braken roots can be eaten as long as its treated first, maybe cooked I think.
Would you like foreign plants included?
 
I'm highly allergic to poison ivy so I've found the absolute best cure for me is to constantly be looking at what I'm touching in the woods. I don't dig roots much in the winter for the simple fact that there could be poison ivy stems near by that I don't see. Identification is the best cure I know. I wish I could say that there's a certain magical plant that works for me but I haven't found it.
Great thread, btw.
Iz
 
Here is the odd thing. When I get home - the thing that works best, and I am fairly sure this is not good for me - is to use Bleach on the infected areas.

It seems to stop the spread of the oil and dry the rash.

TF
 
Tf,
I hear ya. I've done that before, too. But you've gotta use moderation or you could end up with a chemical burn that's worse than your ivy rash was.:o
Imo, the best thing to do is to immediately was in the creek if you think/know you've gotten into it. If you're not near a water source I'd try plantain leaves (anything large) to wipe off the oil. Supposedly the urishol doesn't bond immediately and it's possible to get it off if you do it quickly enough.
Just my thoughts.
Iz
 
Bindle,

I Water it down - one cap to a quart - that really seems to work. But again - PLEASE yall - don't use this because I said so - it probably is wrong! ;)

TF
 
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