Ok, since this has been greenlit, here's a PSA:

Life-threatening reactions may occur if the poisonous ingredients are ingested or inhaled (such as from burning plants). From Medline Plus (NIH). (pops)

Please don't kill yourself or murder someone this way. It would be very unpleasant.

Churchill2004 : i doubt it would kill anybody

Well, that's good enough for me.

/putting on the kettle
//not submitter

use it for an enema

You start wanting to hit something like this...

Jon_da_Brockman

What happens if you smoke it?

You get poison ivy on the inside.

When we were kids, friend of mine almost died from that. His dad was burning some bushes, that happened to include some PI. Dad left, and this genius was standing in the smoke.

chakalakasp: Drinking it like tea = you'll end up a headline on FARK.

submitter should save this for a slow day.

if i weren't in the center of this bustling metropolis that is storrs, i'd go find me some leaves myself.

/no i wouldn't

Depends upon your reaction to poison ivy.

If you are highly allergic, there is a chance it will cause your throat to swell shut and you'll suffocate.

It is remotely possible the act of heating will alter the chemical composition of the poison in the plant and make it less potent. I wouldn't bet my life on it though.

--h

My husband says you'd make good presidential material. Whatever that means.

You will fark up your insides.

I suggest you eat razor blades instead.

Next thing you know he's gonna tell us he's hardcore.

I was gonna make that joke, but chickened out.

/salute.

You're hardcore.

>farkgrrl: drink more!
>submitter: i'm gonna do it.
>peanutbot: submitter is a drinker!1!
>cleanman: someone call 911!
>submitter: i told u i was hardcore

^^^^ pwned by gopher321

I have no idea. But I do know for a fact that you shouldn't smoke catnip.

A Google search of "Poison Ivy Tea" yielded this result from http://poisonivy.aesir.com/view/help.html

My husband was diagnosed with non-small cell cancer of the lung, lymph nodes and brain tin Oct, 1999. In April of 2000 one of our oncologists suggested drinking poison ivy tea. Starting out with a teaspoon or so per day and increasing it gradually to make sure there were no ill side-effect, he is now drinking 12 oz./day. In theory the urusiol may help to kick in the immune system to fight the cancer. With all the chemo he has had, there is no way at this point to tell if it has helped at all or not..but it sure hasn't hurt to try it. Our doctor seems to think it has. Has anyone else out there heard of this before? Would love to hear from you or try to answer any questions you might have.

-­-Holl­ye­zzi­e­loa­MA­P­SO­Nco­m submitted 8/Jul/2001

Just remember... its easy to scratch an annoying itch... but its even more difficult to scratch your lungs

pwned by gopher321

ditto

What do you get if you cross Billy Rae Cyrus with a yeast infection, Ladies?

An Itchy Twitchy Twat!

This may be the weirdest greenlight since my bread heels survey question. Apparently the secret to getting your headline greenlit is to submit it late at night when the admins are very, very drunk.

This is truly an honor, my first Evar greenlighted post!

/Submitter

Urushiol really sucks. I got some on my eyelids last year. I still have these red spots on my eyelids.

aaaaaaaaaaaagh DO IT!!!

no, wait, don't do it. Probably shouldn't do it.

(do it)

/do it

Apparently the secret to getting your headline greenlit is to submit it late at night when the admins are very, very drunk.

Really... Hmmm....

/scribbles that in notepad for future use.

so its not just your favorite supository anymore?
awesome.

pionar
No! I remember when i was about 13, my dad and i were burning some leaves and bushes we had cut down. the pile had poison ivy, unknownst to us, and we breathed in the smoke. My dad and i had such painful irritation of our throats and chests, it felt like pneumonia and strep throat mixed into one. We had the symptoms for two weeks.

pionar is right! from personal experiece DO NOT smoke it.

p.s. smoke dope instead

How much crap like this gets submitted to TotalFark every day?

And here comes the avalanche of retarded questions in TotalFark....

casenickles

This is truly an honor, my first Evar greenlighted post!

/Submitter

Please tell us you were kidding, and this was for a cheap laugh.

Did anybody go to the Question Center and read about the girl who thinks she has a poison ivy rash in her privates?

"I just ate some fibreglass insulation. It wasn't cotton candy like the man said. ... My stomach itches."

Might i recommend chopping it up and snorting it instead, you'll feel the effects a little more quickly...

casenickles: This is truly an honor, my first Evar greenlighted post!

I am surprised that your car giveaway thread didna make it.
/no I am not

Spacey Cat: Why? Never thought of trying, but the cats really seem to enjoy it...

It burns the throat and doesn't have the same effect on humans as it does on cats.

well people drink nettles tea all the time...

catnip smells like tea.

This is truly an honor, my first Evar greenlighted post!

Dude, if you do try it... no wait. Don't try it.
You're looking at a GI tract reaction a habanero can't hold a candle to.
You'd seriously be looking at intubation, or a tracheotomy in all likelyhood.

But if you do, tell us what it tastes like!
I reccomend adding mint.

Depends on the concentration that you made your tea at though. Assuming you are allergic, if the concentration was low enough, you could consume the tea with minimal irritation. Your body would never begin producing anti-urushiol antibodies, as urushiol is a hapten. You certainly wouldn't acheive any interesting effects from it. Unless you put it in your pee-hole. Then you trip balls afire for 12 hours.

would not do much to me, i am immune to every allergen type poison plant i have ever been exposed to

Nothing happens... THis is a myth. Poison ivy is not water soluble. So try it. NOW.

please?