Chapter 3- Poison Ivy and Poison Oak

This is pretty self explanatory- Just how to get rid of poison ivy and stuff like that.

The first thing you after touching or hiking through poison ivy is as soon as possible get a brush, water, and some poison ivy soap and scrub yourself hard with the brush after massaging the soap onto the spot where you got a rash. If you do it soon enough, the oil on the leaves will get scrubbed off and you may prevent yourself from getting a very bad rash, or if you're lucky, from getting a rash in the first place.

Another thing you can use is something called jewelweed- it is orange in color and grows in wet and marshy areas near poison ivy. The flowers are oddly shaped, almost a bit like the pitcher plant but smaller. The buds, as soon as you touch them with enough pressure, will pop and spring open. It's quite fun to play with, actually. Getting back to subject- one you touch some of that annoying ivy, grab one of the jewelweed flowers and rub it on that spot. Make sure the juice soaks into that area. You might need to use as many as ten.

Poison ivy is not only there in the summer though... It's also there in the winter. It looks like a vine, well, it basically is, and has little hairs on it that contain the oil. They normally grow up trees, as far as I have seen. They are also at least thicker than your thumb, that us, unless your thumb is abnormally thick. Try not to touch it. Don't burn it either.

That's about it

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