How Do You Naturally Treat Poison Ivy?
Jewelweed is famously known as the Poison Ivy antidote, but has also been proven to effectively treat Stinging Nettles, Poison Oak, and other rash inducing plants. Folk remedies of poultices and salves of Jewelweed were used to treat bruises, burns, cuts, eczema, insect bites, sprains, sores, warts, and ringworm. Jewelweed grows in wet, wooded areas and is commonly found along road banks and the edge of creek beds. Once you have been able to identify this plant you will notice that it is very invasive. This plant comes from the impatient family and there are two types of flowers. One blooms yellow which is called Pale Jewelweed and the other blooms orange. The orange which is often referred to as Spotted Jewelweed is more commonly used for treating Poison Ivy but I have read that the yellow has medicinal value as well. Both the yellow and the orange have earned the name “touch me not” because when you slightly touch the seed pod they explode, or perhaps ‘pop’ is a better use of word to
