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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It has also been said that the early Americans would ingest the leaves in small quantities in their diet in a way that gave them a certain immunity!
Don't get the notion that I'm recommending this! ---Chas---
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