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Eating Posion Ivy
stickbender:
Man, Eddie can you just picture him and his dog scootin across the carpet together....... ;D Yeah, back in the sixties, idiots would chew those leaves, dumb cane etc. to get a little buzz, and have their throats close! Yeah, Eddie, same here, I used to eat Mangos, by the bushel full. Used to have big tree growing wild in the woods, and man were they good, and there were a bunch of them at the junior high school, sometimes, we would eat them raw, and watch the other kids break out in sores on their mouths. Come to find out, Mangoes, are in the Poison Ivy family..... Could be why we are not allergic to it. I bivouacked in a patch during AIT in the army at Ft. Gordon, Ga. The guy sharing the shelter had to go to the hospital. A bunch of them got it. Never knew I was not allergic to it. You can use the juice from stinging nettle to stop the stinging from the same plant. It neutralizes the pain, and discomfort. Just put the juice on the affected area.
Now if we can just find something to neutralize the bite of red bugs (chiggers) !!! ;D
Wayne
El Destructo:
And Pappy's Seed Ticks....the two I got last Year ....still flare up and Itch a year later
HoBow:
El D- it took me six months to get to concentrated syrum and it was only .5cc
recurve shooter:
in one of the lucky suckers that it dont bother. ;D ;D me and a friend, and a few non-friends had a little "arguement" in the edge of the woods a few years ago. the next day later his legs and arms looked worse than his face from rolling around in the stuff. didnt bother me. ;D :D
Fried Pie:
Follow-up…
Mullet seems confused. Keep uneaten poison ivy away from the butt. My experience supports the notion that digested poison ivy is harmless to sensitive unmentionable places.
I consider the mango comments interesting. I was not aware it is related to poison ivy. Years ago in the navy, me and three other fools ate a whole grocery size bag of ripe Porto Rican mangos at one sitting. As a result we all had diarrhea and a loathsome skin rash. We did not have a doctor aboard ship, but we were told by those knowledgeable with shipboard illness that we had a rash from vitamin “A” poisoning and diarrhea from eating the inedible mango skin.
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