Prepping for poison oak. I’m looking at buying a property that has patches of poison oak on it. Back when I lived in Oregon I came down with a case and found some homeopathic pills that worked great. So I just ordered some, but the instructions say start taking them after exposure and itching starts. I’ve read on the net that you can eat the leaves and become immune. Others say don’t eat the leaves. I figure these pills might run out after SHTF. Anyone have experience with the eating of leaves? thanks.
Don’t eat the leaves. Ingesting all that urushiol oil could cause your body to blow up like a balloon and put you in a hospital, which for all I know, you may not be able to get to from your bugout location.
Never ate the leaves. Funny thing when I was a kid we go camping everyone got posin ivy excepted me and my Dad, but a few years a go I was cleaning up a over grown yard of a rental we were living in at the time and I got case of Posin Oak that I had to got to the doctor for. Go figure.