Re: poison oak ...jeez!

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.)
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