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Subject: Re: Any cures for poison ivy out there?
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Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 11:38:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 17 11:38:00 1985
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	My mother collected antique bottles, and was forever dragging me
	out into the woods to old "bottle dumps" to dig for treasures. I
	would inevitably get covered with poison ivy. I took shots for
	a while in the spring-time that were supposed to desensitize me
	to poison ivy, but they never worked. I was allergic to calamine 
	lotion, and cortisone creams weren't available at that time -- so
	we hit the libraries in search of a "folk" remedy...

	I don't know whether this will work for you, but it does for
	my family... Go into the woods, and gather bunches of ferns --
	preferably young "Boston" ferns (called "fiddle-heads" in my neck
	of the woods) -- bring them in the house and boil them down, like 
	spinach. Cool this mixture, and apply it to the affected areas. For 
	me, this takes out the itch, stops the rash from spreading, and it 
	usually heals up within a week. 

	My mother once observed that you can not find poison ivy growing near
	these ferns in the woods-- maybe planting some of them in your garden
	would kill off the poison ivy! :-)


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