Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1909 — Cure For Poison ivy. [ARTICLE]

Cure For Poison ivy.

A writer in ‘‘The Emergency Service” says: “Ragged milkweed will cure oak or ivy poison. This fact should be generally known by all who love to roam the woods. Being in the woods nearly all the time, I used to be bothered every summer, getting poisoned two or three times every season. I learned of the milkwood cure accidentally, as I would rub the itching places with all kinds of shrubs and weeds until one day I let the juice of a milkweed run on some of the ridges on my bands and noticed that it dried up the blisters and stopped all Itching. Since then I have tried this remedy in many different cases and at all stages, and it has invariably cured every case. I have had to cure some people two or more times before they would believe in the milkweed, as they were using other things at the time the milkweed juice was applied.”