Mary asked: >Any paleo ideas for treating poison oak? I'm very allergic to it. How did >native populations deal with this? They used jewel weed on it. You break the stems and rub the juice on the poison ivy, poison oak, or mosquito bite. Some of the lotions for poison ivy use the active ingredient from jewel weed. You will find links on this here: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22jewel+weed%22+%22poison+ivy%22 http://www.google.com/search?q=%22jewelweed%22+%22poison+ivy%22 Don.
