My husband was diagnosed with non-small cell cancer of the lung, lymph nodes and brain tin

BRAIN TIN?!?

Brain tin = brain cloud

hello. i have a problem. the guy that i have been having sex with recently went on a trip. he came back with poison ivy all over his body even on his penis. we had sex and afterwards i was aware that he had poison ivy on his penis. nnow i have an open sore, redness, and itching. does that mean that i have poison ivy as well? and if so how do i deal with it? the first two days after sex i had a burning sensation when i urinated. but that has surpassed. what do i do. thanks again for your help x-tremely worried
-- "audra hocking" submitted 27/Jun/2000
Editor note: Call a doctor.


Shoot, I gotta use that next time I bring home the clap from night out on the the town. Yeah honey, must be poison ivy from my trip.

This reminds me of a thread I saw in a Phish forum...some guy heard that if you put gas in a bong and hit it, you'd get sooo baked. What a moran. Luckily his head didn't go asplode, but the fumes ended him up in the ER.

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The poison ivy oil (urushiol) wouldn't cause trouble in his throat, as a combining of that oil and the outer layer of the skin is necessary to form a complete antigen (allergen). He's likely to have trouble, however, when the oil hits his anus.

OH MAN
OH MAN

p.s. eleventy

BRAIN TIN?!?

It's what keeps the brain in.
A rare medical disorder, it comes with a little key to open it up if you need to.
Like sardines.

It's a better high if you shoot it up subcutaneously or IV

My uncle swears that he purchased a bottle of poison ivy extract and drank a single drop diluted into a glass of water every day for a few weeks. He never had allergies to poison ivy again. But I wouldn't take that as any invitation to try it out.

Nettles, anyone?

I used to grab them down on the Rezat (a river that ran past where I used to live in Germany), they're just weeds. Take them home, hang them up to dry, and use the dried leaves for tea. Very tasty and relaxing (especially with a shot of honey). Supposed to be good for the urinary tract, as well.

Checking Google for "poison ivy" and "tea", I found there is a song by Vampire Love Dolls titled "Poison Ivy Tea". Perhaps the submitter got the idea from that.

Searching for "poison ivy tea" on Google, I found the following results:

Result 1
This result suggests poison ivy tea as a cancer treatment and even poses an explanation as to why, which I can not say is correct or incorrect, simply that I would take it with a grain of salt if I were you.

Result 2
This link also supports poison ivy tea as a cancer treatment. However, unlike the Result 1, this suggests it for liver cancer instead of lung cancer.

Result 3
This result mentioned tea, but instead suggested that eating a poison ivy leaf at the beginning of every spring may offer desensitization to the effects of it during the rest of the year.


How I interpret the submitter's intent? I figure that it's my first find, i.e. that of the song, and little more than that. I haven't found anything on people dying from drinking the tea, though it probably isn't good for you.
Will it help against cancer or help you to be desensitized to the stuff? I don't know, but if it does then great. A little less suffering in the world would be nice.

Photo Pro's:

Somebody post a pic of Bugs Bunny's with his finger in the gun.

pionar: humanconditioner: forget that.
smoke it instead.

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.


Happened to my neighbor as well. He was laid up for a more than a week.

The question should be: How does one "collect" the oil called urushiol (you-ROO-shee-ol) from this plant.

GB.

HowlingFrog : Supposed to be good for the urinary tract, as well.

In tea form, or do you have to shove 'em right in there?

willywanka: well people drink nettles tea all the time...

Like stinging nettle? I ride a single track trail loaded with that crap, and I make damn sure I don't crash or weave into the brush near that crap. Why would someone drink that?

I ate a big red candle.

I've heard about Poison Ivy tea before, one of my mother's friends drank the stuff. I drank soda instead.

But, if you do brush up against a leaf, and it starts to sting/annoy the hell out of you, rub the bottom of a sword fern on the aflicted area. It will begin to feel better within the hour.

/was one of those kids

redbo: he purchased a bottle of poison ivy extract

a coworker of mine takes a homeopathic remedy made with poison ivy...apparently to help prevent him from having a reaction when he comes in contact with the plant.
it doesn't work. he still gets poison ivy...really bad.

i actually just got poison ivy for the first time last week.
over the past five years or so i've worked in woodlots filled with the stuff.
i always thought i must be immune

guess not ;)

I don't know what will happen if you drink it, but if you soak them in alcohol and evaporate the alc away you have a fine white powder, and if you get someone to snort it... ahahahahhahahahahhahaaa !!! good times good times. (umm don't, like do this bad things will happen like jail time, the preceding statement was for entertainment purposes only)

If you brewed as a tea it would be concentrated and would be much more toxic then a normal exposure scenario.
Any surface that is exposed to the tea would become irritated and could cause death (Such as swelling in the legs, hemoraging of the stomach, etc). Not to mention the effect of anyone in the same room exposed to the gas (evaporating oils.)
The least I could see happing is that you are not allergic to urushiol and nothing happens but a stomach ache. Or possibly the oil has a lower boiling point and would steam off (not likely though)

I have just been around it and have been in trouble. Trust me, having it inside of you is not fun. When it is inside you can't scratch, although the medicine they give you makes you not care anymore...

Oil 1
Anus 0

i love the itches
cause they're so delicious
gottata have itches
(jingly music somewhere in background)

Catnip is, in fact, an herb from the mint family.

You can brew it up in tea and drink it. Supposedly, it's pretty decent.

Has anyone ever thought about trying to "cure" the war on drugs by replacing marijuana with poison ivy? (Sorry, just a weird random thought I had...I could care less what you people smoke.)

GENETICBAGGAGE

Steam distillation followed by vacuum distillation over a nice column should allow you to separate out the various urushiol fractions quite easily. Same way you can isolate many of the naturally occuring oils.

Didn't Ralph Wiggum say "It tastes like...burning!"

oh c'mon man!! don't listen to these Nancys...smoke that shiat!!!! ;)


obviously...don't smoke that shiat

Wait, you're talking about swallowing the Poison Ivy that had Drew Barrymore in it, or the one with Jaime Pressly?

I love discussions that need legal disclaimers at the end of every post.

GENETICBAGGAGE: The question should be: How does one "collect" the oil called urushiol (you-ROO-shee-ol) from this plant.

Very carefully.

i bet hot chicks would want to have teh sex with you. they might even let you put in their butt. think about that for a second whydontcha

Watchman:
In tea form, or do you have to shove 'em right in there?

I liked it in tea form. But if one were to shove 'em right in there at about the same time the oil hits the anus, I suspect that it could lead to a sublime state of consiousness.
Or something.

What's worse, when the bullet hits the bone, or when the oil hits his anus?

He's likely to have trouble, however, when the oil hits his (______o______)

cbm5

i told u i was hardcore

cbm5 wins the thread. You can all go home.

Cue "I'd hit her anus with my oil!" Photoshops in 3..2..

I'm not allergic to, or haven't been allergic to, poison ivy et cetra yet. I suppose I could become sensitive to it at any time, I know I've been exposed several times to the oak and ivy.

Nettles just have formic acid in them, I think. Stingy but not as much an allergen, that they can be eaten if cooked is kind of well known I thought.

Thanks "kr0m0z0ne"

Teh not stoopid... TEH DUPID!