Poison Ivy ..... again

[drothergoodnow]

Hi, it's been a long time since I've posted anything on here, so I thought I'd start with this. I am an apothecary, so I tend to treat thing with herbs and such. Here are some suggestions that might help...

Get some oatmeal and a coffee grinder, and grind the oatmeal into a flour. You want about a pound of oatmeal flour. If you have a Wild Oats (health food store) about a pound of oatmeal flour and some fresh ginger root. Cut the ginger root up into small pieces and puree' them in a food processor or blender. add this paste to the oatmeal flour with water and mix it with your fingers until it is a sticky paste. Apply this paste to the poison ivy. It might burn a bit, but let it dry. Wash it off with mild soap and water. Repeat as necessary. This should dry it out, take the itch away and help the skin to begin to heal. No guarantees, but I have used this on my kids for years with good results. Hope this helps.

Jas

[critter crazy]

We have Poison Ivy growing in our Yard, so we have to pepare ourselves every year for someone to get it! no matter how hard we try to avoid it, someone always gets it, usually hubby. We have found that Fels Naptha Soap is fabulous! fels Naptha soap is a heavy duty Laundry soap, that comes in Bar form. It does great at drying out the poison Ivy. We use this a reventive measure as well, if we even think that we have touched poison Ivy, we wash with this soap, itis always on the top shelf in the shower. you can find it at a grocerystore, in the laundry section. It works great! we have two kids, and they use it all the time!
here is a pic of what it looks like.



Good Luck!!