[Community_garden] How NOT to deal with Poison Ivy

[Rebekah.L.Filipello at wellsfargo.com]

OK, I've got to jump in here and relate a story about poison oak. Lenny,
you may do well using jewel weed ice cubes, but when my eight-year-old
daughter tried to 'wash' the urishol off her arm using ice cubes (the
only water we had at that picnic), she ended up SPREADING the oil and
rubbing it thoroughly into her skin. The resulting rash was the densest
mass of PO blisters I have ever seen, and the poor child was very
miserable. My herbalist friend Adam Seller recommended masking the area
with dolomite clay, which has a powerful drawing effect as it dries. I
do believe that helped, but it was still weeks before she was PO free.

Beki Filipello