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Post by queenbee on May 31, 2008 15:12:07 GMT -4
Tell hunny gee thanks.  Actually went over to a friend's bee yard to look for bear sign. I tracked a coon down to the creek and found some wild touch me not that hadn't bloomed yet, jerked up 2 big stalks, peeled one and used it there and brought the other one home to boil down and use later. Had to weed eat and mow at our bee yard and with my bee suit on it got the poison oak red and itchy. Feeling better since I doctored it. |
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Post by queenbee on May 31, 2008 21:24:40 GMT -4
I am not allergic to poison ivy.
Sangria had some growing up her tree and we couldn't decide what it was so I walked through it grab a vine of it off her tree, jerked it off and carried it home to show grumpy for verification. That was on Monday, it showed up on Friday on my face and neck. I just found more early today on the inside of my left wrist.
Witch doctoring it up with homemade soap and wild touch me not.
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Post by bb on Jun 1, 2008 8:23:08 GMT -4
My property is pretty covered up in the stuff... been working since last year to get rid of it! Almost anything that is 3 leafed and growing up a tree is suspect!
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Post by taylor on Jun 1, 2008 8:33:56 GMT -4
Bee,
Hope your feeling better today. I need to know what the wild touch-me-not looks like and how to use it. I never know when I may need it! I'm very allergic to all the "poison" plants!
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Post by bb on Jun 1, 2008 8:40:40 GMT -4
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Post by taylor on Jun 1, 2008 8:53:16 GMT -4
Thanks BB! Ya never know when stuff like this will come in handy, especially since I live too far away fro Bee to make a housecall for her witch-doctorin'!
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Post by queenbee on Jun 1, 2008 9:29:45 GMT -4
HAHAHA
Actually you can use it fresh or boil it down.
Will post after church how to do that.
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Post by southpaw on Jun 1, 2008 11:06:37 GMT -4
I am not allergic to poison ivy. Sangria had some growing up her tree and we couldn't decide what it was so I walked through it grab a vine of it off her tree, jerked it off and carried it home to show grumpy for verification. That was on Monday, it showed up on Friday on my face and neck. I just found more early today on the inside of my left wrist. Witch doctoring it up with homemade soap and wild touch me not. So what do you think it is?? I would stay out of the bushes till I found out. I'm scratching just reading about it. |
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Post by bb on Jun 1, 2008 11:28:49 GMT -4
What i find curious is that it is on the side of your head. Hunny says you can get the blisters from poison oak real easy if you are sensitive to it... even animals (like the dog!) running in it can get the oils on their coat and then if you pet them, the oil transfers to your hands and where ever you touch, you can get the reaction! Makes me itch just thinking about it! |
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Post by taylor on Jun 1, 2008 12:01:08 GMT -4
Many people have been hospitalized with severe breathing problems when exposed to the smoke from these poison plants being burned as well. Seems the oils transfer in the smoke as well.
Nasty, nasty stuff!
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Post by queenbee on Jun 1, 2008 14:22:03 GMT -4
Poison oak can go into one side of your body and emerge somewhere else.
I pulled it down with my left hand.
Friday morning I had an itch on the side of my neck (right side) scratched it and went on about my business, not thinking about it.
I am left handed and propped my head up with my right hand where I scratched and it spread. Got some pretty serious blisters where evidently some of the oils got trapped under my ring almost a pirfect circle of blisters.
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Post by southpaw on Jun 1, 2008 14:26:18 GMT -4
That happened to a friend of mine one time the dr said she had it inside and out just from the smoke. They say you can get it off of clothes that have been put away for over a year if they weren't washed! Scratch, Scratch, Scratch!!!!!!
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Post by queenbee on Jun 1, 2008 14:33:20 GMT -4
Sorry paw but I am not scratching, that just makes it worse.
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Post by summerose on Jun 1, 2008 14:35:55 GMT -4
Just thinking about poison oak or ivy makes me itch!  |
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Post by queenbee on Jun 1, 2008 15:09:16 GMT -4
Kind of like when folks talk about lice.
Mind over matter.
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