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Re: Botanical Poison Ivy Antidote?

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From: S. A. Modena
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1992 05:55
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In article <robison1.710571215@husc9> robison1@husc9.harvard.edu (Keith Robison) writes:
>Any help on this would be appreciated.  It is long-standing lore
>in the camping world that the juice of jewelweed* (a wild impatiens)
>is an antidote for poison ivy.  Does anyone know of _any_ 

>Keith Robison
>robison@ribo.harvard.edu 

It was lore of the Conservation Corps way back before the dawn of modern
times, that rubbing on PokeWeed was a preventative to the effects of
Poison Ivy....it must be true, because the person who told me vividly
described how he never got Poison Ivy symptoms despite pulling the
damn stuff out with his bare hands.  ;^)

Steve
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From: samodena@csemail.cropsci.ncsu.edu (S. A. Modena)
Subject: Re: Botanical Poison Ivy Antidote?
Message-ID: <1992Jul9.055555.121@ncsu.edu>
Keywords: impatiens, jewelweed, touch-me-not
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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1992 05:55:55 GMT
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