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Fried Pie:
I am extremely allergic to poison ivy and the fact that I regularly eat the leaves to maintain my non-allergic condition has created some discussion with some of my friends.

Here’s the deal.  I eat one poison ivy leaf a day for about two weeks in the spring as soon as the leaves start showing, then eat maybe a leaf a month until the fall.  I do not understand it, but I never break out inside my mouth.  Sometimes when first starting in the spring, I can get a blister on my lip if it touches the leaf.  To avoid this when starting out in the spring, I will clip a leaf and let it fall on a piece of bread, then fold the bread over it to make sure the leaf  doesn’t touch my lip.

I have not had any ill effects…. and it works.

mullet:
 How's your butt feel? :D

Cacatch:
I had heard of this and wondered if it really worked and if anyone actually did it. I've read where it was a trick the NA's used to reduce or eliminate susceptibility to poison ivy. I'm scared to try it though, because some sources say it can be deadly to the wrong person by causing them to have all sorts of internal infections. Don't know, but at least it works for you. Not everything works for every person.  :)

El Destructo:
I'll just take your word for it.....  ;)

Badger:
 That scares the crap out of me. I have had my throat almost close up and choke me to death tasting things I shouldn't be tasting, or smoking things I shouldn't have been smoking LOL. I chewed up a philadandren leaf when I was a kid and came real close to dyeing, might have been an elephant ear not positive anymore. Steve

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