[Herbalist] poison ivy

[HopeAllyson Dwiggins]

The original recipe is:
4 cups colloidal oatmeal
1 cup epsom salts
4 drops each peppermint and lavender essential oil
Add ingredients to a lukewarm or cool bath.
I mix up the ingredients and put a little of it in a jar.  This goes in my
first aid kit.  When needed, I will mix it with water to a paste consistency
and apply.  Usually we don't have a bath available outside of home, and we
find this works really well.  We used the paste successfully twice at
Pennsic this year.
Annys

> From: Tara <tsersen at nni.com>
> Reply-To: herbalist at ansteorra.org
> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 11:14:40 -0400
> To: herbalist at ansteorra.org
> Subject: Re: [Herbalist] poison ivy
>
> Do you have proportions for that recipe?
>
> -Magdalena
>
> HopeAllyson Dwiggins wrote:
>>
>> I found a remedy for all the poison plants in one of my herbal books, mix
>> epsom salt, colloidal oatmeal and lavender essential oil.  My husband is
>> sensitive to poison ivy, and when he gets the rash, we add some water to
>> make a paste and apply it.  It clears it up almost immediately.
>> Annys
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