Re: poison oak

Tecnu is the product that professional foresters, firefighters, and field
botanists use up here to both prevent and treat poison-oak (I work for the
US Forest Service in a p-oak infested part of northern California).  It's
good stuff and available over the counter.  We keep a bottle in our bathroom
all the time.
-----Original Message-----
From: loretta gerity jacobs <lorettagerity@home.com>
To: Barry Garcia <Barry_Garcia@monterey.edu>; medit-plants
<medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Date: Thursday, November 30, 2000 9:19 AM
Subject: Re: poison oak


>Barry Garcia wrote:
>
>> lorettagerity@home.com writes:
>> >
>> >So, please, send me your recipes, and potions, and help!
>> >your humble fairfax fan
>> >loretta
>>
>> There's really not much you can do at this point. Once you start itching,
>> it means the oils (Urushiol), have become bound to the cell membranes and
>> are virtually impossible to remove.
>>
>> One way to relieve itching is the common hydrocortisone creams. A page
i'm
>> reading: http://daphne.palomar.edu/wayne/ww0802.htm says that if you can
>> get a "pore minimizer" for acne (try Neutrogena), this apparently works
>> better than calamine for relief of itching.
>>
>> And, a nice bit of native Californian ethnobotany suggests using the
>> flowers and leaves of Grindelia robusta as a poultice. This plant was
used
>> by California indians and settlers to relieve the inflamation and
itching.
>> It also says natives would use poultices from the boiled leaves of Yerba
>> Santa, and Manzanita (Eriodictyon and Arctostaphylos spp.)
>
>See? I knew it. I knew you guys would know. Well, I did some prednisone
>tablets from a friend, I just took  3 (30 mgs). I also got some
>campho-phenique, owieee!, and a new tube of the Cortisone 1mg topical.
>
>Thanks for all you're help. I used to work on a landscape crew for the
Marin
>County Water District, and poison Oak was a way of life. However it seems
to
>me that there was a prophylactic remedy, pills. that one could take to
build
>up a resistance. NOt a vaccine, but same principal.
>Does anyone know of this?
>thanks again
>loretta
>IN the deep woods of Fairfax, where one takes great risk hacking into their
>neighbor's bramble bushes.
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