[TheForge] OT: YAK: Blacksmith medical cure

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> Poison oak holds much of  this area together on the steep slopes..it's a
> good soil builder. There are places not far from here where the stems
> are thicker than my wrist. We always say," it's a good year for poison
> oak", every year.
> I used to be extremely sensitive to it, but  have built resistance over
> time with exposure...but first  i took a course of the poison oak drops
> that the forestry uses that starts with a miniscule dose and slowly
> works up.

Yeah, that does work, for some people. But it's something that should be
very carefully monitored, to give your system a chance to move from allergic
response to resistance. Too many people will hear about it, try something
similar and overdose themselves, triggering the allergic response.

My roommate has a serious problem with poison ivy- you whisper the name, and
he'll get it in the next room. This year at Pennsic, it went systemic on
him, spread from his left wrisat all over, and we took him into the VA
before it decided to spread to areas where you REALLY don't want poison ivy
;-O

If you're sensitive to it, don't mess with it, unless you take a carefully
monitored preventitive course.

Saint Phlip,
CoD

"When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
 Blacksmith's credo.

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....