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.
