Poison Ivy Home Treatment

Chef Q hit a foraging jackpot with some indigo blue mushrooms, but he also ran into some trouble with poison ivy. Here he shows you how to use a couple of common items from the garden to get a bit of releif.

[rianethomas]

I really appreciate the information he shared here! Additionally, I have found a cheap, easy, DIY solution for when you've already been exposed and have started to react to the PI oil. Whenever I realize I've got a PI rash coming on, I start drinking beet juice. Trust me, as weird as it is, I wouldn't do it if it didn't work, and this remedy has been working for me and my family for three years. If we are paying attention and catch it early enough, sometimes the blisters don't even form. You can drink beet juice from the canned grocery store beets, or make your own fermented beet kvass. Either works. Hope this helps anyone who has already got the poison ivy reaction started.

[gerizimpenajimenez]

Thank you! I didn’t have the plants but did have the bentonite clay (everyone should buy one) and mixed it with apple cider vinegar. It was dried up in the first day. I applied it in the morning and evening. Also would clean the area with alcohol every time it itched.

[retrodog]

Oh great. Ingredients that no one has access to. Well that's helpful. ;)

[pammiedoodle]

Cool! Thanks for the remedy tip!
Now, to find jewel weed....

[TheCoastlander]

Interesting, that plant didn't look like jewelweed.  Seems like it had trifoliate leaves like poison ivy but I think I saw stipules...possibly a species of Desmodium, many of those in the Ozarks.

[angelc]

What a waist of time watching this video. complicated to get ingredients.