TheSeedObsesser
Deeply Rooted
I had no idea where this should've went, so I just went ahead and put it in the "Everything Else Garden."
With wood-chopping season here and the garden nearly cleared out I figured that starting a fire or two in the garden might not be a bad idea - maybe kill some of those weed seeds and add some nutrients to the soil for those heavy feeders? I go ahead and do just that. Unfortunately I happen to love to stand close to burning fires - letting the smoke blow in my face while I watch everything burn to ashes. "Stand back a bit so your clothes don't get all smokey" Pa tells me. I told him something about the Native Americans regularly taking "smoke bathes" and using smoke as a medicinal. I was completely oblivious to what I was getting into.
I wake up the next morning with a thick and extremely itchy rash all over my body - ALL over (It's covering my neck, head, and any part of me that I had touched yesterday. The only area that doesn't have it is my feet.). It just so happens that there was Poison Ivy, a weed that I am particularly sensitive to, in those dried daylily leaves that I had put in that fire. (For anybody that might not know, the Poison Ivy oils where transferred in the smoke.)
So what I was wondering - would building a separate fire using mostly Jewelweed and standing in the smoke of that fire help? Would the oils from the Jewelweed be transferred in the smoke?
Any suggestions of other things that I could do to get rid of this rash? Except for going to the doctor's - don't want to break my streak!
With wood-chopping season here and the garden nearly cleared out I figured that starting a fire or two in the garden might not be a bad idea - maybe kill some of those weed seeds and add some nutrients to the soil for those heavy feeders? I go ahead and do just that. Unfortunately I happen to love to stand close to burning fires - letting the smoke blow in my face while I watch everything burn to ashes. "Stand back a bit so your clothes don't get all smokey" Pa tells me. I told him something about the Native Americans regularly taking "smoke bathes" and using smoke as a medicinal. I was completely oblivious to what I was getting into.
I wake up the next morning with a thick and extremely itchy rash all over my body - ALL over (It's covering my neck, head, and any part of me that I had touched yesterday. The only area that doesn't have it is my feet.). It just so happens that there was Poison Ivy, a weed that I am particularly sensitive to, in those dried daylily leaves that I had put in that fire. (For anybody that might not know, the Poison Ivy oils where transferred in the smoke.)
So what I was wondering - would building a separate fire using mostly Jewelweed and standing in the smoke of that fire help? Would the oils from the Jewelweed be transferred in the smoke?
Any suggestions of other things that I could do to get rid of this rash? Except for going to the doctor's - don't want to break my streak!