[GeoStL] Re: Poison Ivy
- From: "Timothy Hunt" <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:50:21 -0500
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You want to go working in a cashew nut shell oil factory.
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119436947/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
Timothy
On 9/11/08, Mike Griffin <griff@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Q.} I have a friend who is a city arborist. He knows a bit about plants as
> well as trees. He told me that it was possible to build up a relative
> immunity to poison ivy by ingesting the leaves of the plant in small doses
> over time. Is this true?
> Submitted by: Josh, Knoxville, TN
>
> A.} Back in April 1987 a study on ingesting poison ivy to develop immunity
> was reported in the Archives of Dermatology. The report said it didn't work.
> But cases of severe reactions in the mouth of people who have tried a nibble
> of poison ivy are well documented. The future may bring a pill that
> decreases sensitivity to poison ivy, oak, and sumac, and the pill may be
> derived from the plants, but no doctor I have ever talked to recommends
> eating poison ivy, no matter how small the bite.
>
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