HERB - herbal bug spray

[Lynette]

Well worked for me at the time.   Lots of nasties.   I think I reacall itty
bitty black flies or nats, vicious, and I couldn't use anything that would
alert or scare off animals.  I sat virtually motionless, (often in trees)
for hours every day in the woods and at the edge of woods, at dawn and dusk
I grant you I was aware of the B - 1 seeping through my poures not just
bugs.  This was in the early 80's so my memory has dimmed as to the type of
bugs.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gaylin J. Walli" <gwalli at ptc.com>
To: <herbalist at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 7:48 AM
Subject: Re: HERB - herbal bug spray


> I'm guessing vitamin B-1 is the one you're thinking of, but I've
> found some research that refutes the popular belief. Here's a
> URL that might help:
>
> http://www.tmvc.com.au/alert4.html
>
> Jasmine
> Iasmin de Cordoba
> gwalli at ptc.com
> iasmin at home.com
>
> >Just a guess, but maybe you need to change the recipe.  Maybe the bugs in
> >your area have grown accustomed to you spray, thus developing a tolerance
> >from over exposure.  The recipe sounds fine to me.   There is something I
> >used effectively years ago.  Trouble is I can't remember exactly which B
> >vitamin it was.  The trick was to essentially overdose on one of the B
> >vitamins then you sweat it through you skin which the bugs hate.  B
vitamins
> >are water soluble so they don't build up a toxic level without being
> >excreted.  Many people unwittingly overdose on these without knowing it.
> >The key it to take a mega dose.  Sorry, I don't know which one it was.
>
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