Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis) 

thank you for the great content. I'm dreaming to have a life like you when I'm older (26 atm). keep it growing. cheers

I used the stem and stalk. chop it up. boiling it, reducing to 1/2. and let it sit over night, then drain it, and can it in a pressure canner. 30 minutes for pints and 35 minutes for quarts at 10 # pressure. just like vegetable broth. I have used 3 year old jewel weed liquid and it still is good. I have to remember to wear long sleeves and pants. wash my clothes and gloves and takes a shower. then put on the jewel weed. I get it very bad. once I forgot. had it terrible. used the jewel weed a few days later and the rash did go away... but I had swollen arms and felt very sick. had to take prednoisone and antibiotics because it went through my skin and into my system. it sucks. I make it every year and use it in may because thats when the poison ivy is out and the jewel weed hasn't grown yet. I also wait to pick it after the seed pods are spent so they will regrow. I get it that bad. this stuff works for me. I'm grateful

Thank you so much for everything you have posted. Hope you will be doing more content in the future and all is well with you. God bless you!

This old man reminds me of Adam.🤗🤗🤗

I use this a lot for stinging nettles irritation

Thx for sharing your knowledge and plants for ID.

I plant inpatients in a shaded spot. I never have any trouble keeping them healthy like other plants, and some of them reseed the next spring.

Awesome content , too cool

Can you tell me if other impatiens family plants have the same poison ivy relieving juices such as himalayan balsam, or the taller impatiens and even the garden shade annuals?

Jewel weed is good for rubbing on to keep the mosquitoes from biting as well. Works great keeping off mosquitoes.👍

the commercial impatiens still have these kind of seed pods

Thank you for the presentation. What time of the year do they start flowering? Does it vary depending on where you live?

My mom gets the purple ones i have the orange ones wild in the woods here in the wetter sink spots

Do you know where I can find seeds for this? Thank you.

So, does freezing it work?

The chemical that binds with the poison ivy oil to neutralize it is called urushiol. I use a product that includes jewel weed to treat poison ivy, oak, etc. It is called Technu, available in US on the shelf at CVS. I am happy to add that I also got a very bad rash from the tree version that secrets the poison ivy oil in Mexico and it worked wonderfully!!