Using Jewelweed for Poison Oak 

My momma’s people were from western Kentucky, oh how my Mammaw LOVED forget me nots!!!! As a little girl it was my ‘job’ to collect the seeds so we could plant them to give to folks from her church that were sick. Sweet precious memories❤❤thank you so much for reviving that memory for me. May God bless you and yours.

I love hearing your stories! I have used Jewel Weed to soothe Stinging Nettle stings. It really works! I have never had poison oak rash. I am 63 now. I have been told that as you get older, your body can change and you may get it after years of immunity! I hope not in my case. I never worry about it when I am around it.

I absolutely LOVE the fiddle music. It's sweet and sad and soulful... a little bit haunting. One of my favorite memories as a child was popping those little jewelweed seed pods. It always made me happy. Thank you for the video, Tipper! Hugs

Beautiful! The bounty the Lord has provided.

Jewelweed even grows all the way up in Maine! It's an amazingly resilient and useful plant and it works every bit as well on mosquito bites as poison ivy. It's strange how there are plants that seem purpose made to be helpful to us fragile humans. Jewelweed grows in the same places as you'll find lots of mosquitos and poison ivy and their flowers are so bright that you couldn't miss them even if you've barely ever seen it before.

I missed this last year. I was just admiring the nice ztand of jewelweed across the road, along the drainage into the creek. Such beautiful flowers! The hummingbirds were making good use of them. I had heard that it was good for poison Icy, but not that it was the juice of the nodes so I'm happy to learn that. Thank you so much!

We have the orange flower jewel weed here in S. W. Missouri. We gather it every fall and I make salves, soap and freeze ice cubes of jewelweed. I wouldn’t want to be without it because my husband is highly allergic to poison ivy and poison oak.

We use this all the time and make soap with it. Great information. I used to get poison ivy every year until I started using this soap in the summer.

Oh gosh, I had forgotten about those popping seed pods, thank you Tipper! When my kids were little my son got poison oak bad. His pediatrician gave medication but also told me about helpful jewlweed.

I got a case of shingles and the jewelweed helped to relieve the symptoms. I applied a cloth saturated with the jewelweed "tea"and it really helped to lessen the pain and discomfort

Oh my Gosh i have made salve with jewelweed for years it is the best to use for fungicide also for any itchy skin problems ... it is absolutely amazing what a plant like jewelweed can do for a persons skin that internet guy Wild-man Steve is the site i found a recipe for the ointment or salve about 8 years ago it grew beside my old apartment, the yellow variety. I used to sneak back there after i moved and harvest plants for my skin ointment. I tried freezing it but not as good results as making ointment. Great subject !! 💯❤️

I’ve never had poison oak or poison ivy, however, this is so good to know. Thank you !

I grew up in Watauga county and now in Burke county, but growing up we called it Maypops. When touching the seed pods, they may pop or not so-called Maypop. 😂

Another great video. One of my new retirement pastimes, Tipper and company lessons. Thank you, I’ve learned so much.😊🇨🇦

There is a small stand of jewelweed on our property, I'd love to time it to be able to gather some seeds to put it other places; we have a lot of wet/moist places to put it.

I didn't know Jewel Week would cure poison oak, that's sure good to know! It certainly is a beautiful plant full of flowers.

When I was a kid, one of the times we visited our Kentucky family my cousin and I were playing in the mountains and walking down the holler. We came across some touch me nots. He taught me about it and showed me how it would pop when you touch it. I thought that was neat. I never forgot that. He also showed me some kind of plant that if you chewed it, it was sour. I don't know what that was

This comes at such an opportune time. I have an area that used to be a large size garden. My gardening is done in raised beds and containers now. The area is over grown with four different things I believe one is sumac( the non poisonous kind) with red berries growing up in a plume. Other has a red stalk and bunches of grape like clusters, I believe I have the poison sumac as well. Have contacted local county extension office. Every part of the poison sumac can effect you! I also ,I believe after seeing this video, the I have jeweled growing. Sort of viney, beautiful yellow orange flowers. Thought it was just another weed, I would have to pull out!! Going to take a closer look in the morning. I've had poison ivy that was crawling up the side of my house, wore shoes, jeans, long sleeved shirt and gloves. To pull it down and bag it. Didn't think about the oil getting on the clothes. Wore them again and got the oil on my forearms, 4 weeks! I need to tackle the poison sumac! Thanks for the info. Jeweled stays!!!

I love your stories. I’m so enjoying them.i can relate to some of them. God bless y’all.

When I was growing up in western PA we called them "Touch-Me-Nots". They were fun to play with! I wish I knew that they were good for bites & poison ivy. We don't seem to have them near where I live now in Kansas.

Very familiar with the jewel weed. Where I do yard work and other outdoor nonsense I carry a couple leaves in my pockets for the ivy. And plantains for wasper and bee stings. And rattle weed for snake bites (not for copperhead and rattlesnake bites) rub the broke stem on the bite it’ll clean it out.

As a child I was sensitive to poison ivy so bad I had to get shots, it would spread over me so bad! And yes, got it in winter many times as it would be on the firewood and if I carried in wood, I'd get it. Terrible memories lol!

I'm violently allergic to poison ivy. I don't think I've ever been exposed to any of the other poisons. In Pennsylvania and New York we say poison shu-mack. I heard that jewel week was good for poison but I didn't know to cut at the joints. Thank you.

That was so interesting! I don't believe I've ever seen this plant in upstate NY. I love learning about medicinal plants. Thank you!

Wow! I didn't know jewel weed has medicinal properties. It sure is pretty! Thank you, Ms. Tipper! I always learn something new when I visit your channel! Hugs and blessings!!

Seeing the seed pods brought back a childhood memory I have not remembered. I remember touching those little pods and watching the seeds pop out. I grew up in central california. Lots of poison oak here too. Thanks for the video.

Have never had poison oak thank God! As usual I learned something. Never knew about jewel weed. Thanks

Always loved this flower .So glad to find out about it use for poison oak.My grandma always said to wash with lye soap.It would dry it up. Always have lye soap just in case.

Have that growing in my backyard here in Indiana.

I hadn't heard of using it for that but will have to try it next year. If a dog got snake bit my grandpaw would pour some sweet milk in a pan and mash up some touch me nots in it and let the dog drink it.

Hey There Thanks for sharing this helpful info! I only ever got Poison Oak one time...dead winter too, but it was cause I was dumb enough to try to pull down a vine off a tree I wanted to put a hammock on. (Georgia). It's the oil in those hairy old vines that can get ya bad.

Love all your videos. I've had poison oak twice. Once in 1957, our neighbor was burning and I suppose it was in the fire. I got this awful rash on my face. My mom asked if I had used mercurial oxide to try to bleach my freckles, I had and hated. I said no. I had no idea what that was! Her older sister had used it and had a bad reaction. Then in w 774, I was picking wild grsoed behind the parsonage to make jelly. I had on mt hands, arms, in my ears, and in my lungs!! It was extremely bad. I got shots and had to miss work. It was miserable!!!

Thanks Tipper!

Jewel weed grows around here in SWMichigan. People use it in soap making for poison ivy and oak.

Magnifique !!! Merci merci merci !!! Blessings +++!!!

🌟❤️🌟❤️🌟 I’ve gotten poison oak from bringing in firewood in the winter.

Thank you , enjoyed the video, and the info.

I was a paramedic and we'd always worry about firefighters on brush fires who weren't wearing their SCBAs. If they inhale poison ivy/oak/sumac and they're allergic to it they could end up on a ventilator (I knew one who did).

My heart sing LOUD!!! Gorgeous amber gifts to fulfill a desperate need. I canNOT cope with itch! 😵😵😵 Another way to see jewelweed is as tiny caution flags. It shares the same growth requirements as poison ivy. Have you ever tasted those tiny little snack seeds you popped free? I think you will enjoy, bc they will remind you of your favored walnuts. Thank you for your stewardship. 🌿💚💗

Loved this video. Sent it to my daughter. 👍🏻❤️

I need a bunch of that. Where I live here in Murphy my place is full of poison oak and ivy

I wonder if I might find some of this in Indiana. I would love to show my granddaughter

I ran across this video as I sit here scratching my arm LoL...The jewelweed here is about 8miles from where I live, so I don't get to see them too often.

Nice video

I moved here in the spring of 1994. The house was on one lot and I bought the empty lot beside it. The second lot was nothing but a tangle of sawbriers, honeysuckle, muscadine vines, scrubby little trees and poison oak. I made it my goal to clean it up and make a showplace out of it. I have yet to complete my showplace but I have managed to grow some 18+ inch oak trees, clear a garden spot, get rid of most of the vines and all the poison oak. I am not extremely susceptible to the stuff but I have had it and I don't like. I don't like to use herbicides much but that is the one plant I do not hesitate to kill. I even invade my neighbors' property in search of it. Nobody has complained yet. This year I found only one plant on my property and a little patch of it just on the other side of the property line. I eliminated both! I find that jewelweed grows best along watercourses which I have none. I call the touch-me-nots. Since I don't have it, I have to rely on other remedies the best of which, in my case, is to kill it before I get it.

I wish I'd known about this sooner. Lol. I'm bad allergic to poison oak and ivy.

Thanks again Tipper. I've had enough poison oak to kill a normal human being,especially back when I coon hunted. It's just terrible!

I ain't one to argue with no natural remedies, and I ain't arguing now, but if you can't find none of your jewel weed, get you some isopropyl alcohol and soak a rag with it and cover the area that's itching, it'll dry it up. When my younguns was still living we went visiting some old folks, and you know how that is, they either got something to show you or something that needs doing, well this visit they was showing off things growing on their property. It was me, my son and my daughter that went, and it was me and my son that come back with poison oak, and it was all over the backs of our legs. One of the worst things you can do is scratch it, on account of it just spreading the poison, and that's exactly what happened, but we just clawed it in our sleep it was so bad. So I recollected the only other time I had it when I was about my son's age and Daddy put alcohol on it. So I done the same, then my son come wanting some relief from the itching and I says I got a cure for it but it's gonna sting, and he says I don't care. So I grab a clean rag and the alcohol and set him up in my lap and says it gonna stimg but try to tough it out and it'll feel better. So he jerked when he felt that burn and I blew on it, then he looks at me funny and I says what's wrong, and he says do it again. Just that little bit had already relieved that itching and he was all for it. So I says squeeze moma's hand if it hurts too bad, and I held it up against his leg real good, and he did squeeze my hand a little bit for a few seconds but it was more like he heldt onto my hand til it was over. So I says does it feel better, and he nods his head and says yeah, so I give him some loving and send him back to play. It might've been thirty minutes and here he come and says moma I need some more alcohol, I just chuckled a little and fixed him up again. The first few days we was both constantly putting alcohol on our legs, but then it dried up real quick and we was fine. My daughter didn't get even a spot on her. But it covered the whole back of our legs from the bend on down. A few days later somebody hollered out at us and says how's that poison oak, and I says it's done gone now, and they says uh-uh, then comes on over to have a look, we both still had scabs on us that was still healing but that drive ya crazy it's itching so bad I could rip my skin off part was done over, and the neighbor says what'd y'all put on it, I says alcohol, they says you kidding me, I says nope, my son says it feels good on it. We got it a few more times after that in the same place on account of we couldn't see it, we actually had to hunt for it and then I destroyed it. It was kinda cute the way my son would be playing with the neighbor's younguns and then come running up to me on the porch and says moma I need some alcohol, and I'd get two rags, one to hold on each leg, then he'd be gone playing again. So if my then three year old son could handle it, and my about three year old self when my Daddy done it to me could handle it, surely others can handle it long enough to dry that mess up and get it gone. It stings for a minute, but the relief it gives outweighs it by far. But that sure is a pretty flower.

I've never used touch me not for poison oak or poison ivy but wouldn't care to use it if needed. I've used it for chigger bites and it worked almost immediately. When first rubbed on chigger bites the itching becomes intense and then total relief for several hours. Rub it on again and the red inflamed bites start drying up.

I have never had poison oak but I am one that if the wind blows the wrong way I get poison ivy. Well one year when I was about 12 dad said I will not have you get it again so he went out and burned all he could find. The next day I had it in my lungs. I was more miserable than when I had it outside. The doctor said that because I got it inside if I ever get it again it will kill me. I stay way clear of it now.

After 36 wonderful years of marriage, 10 yrs of grieving, Im ready to offer my heart to another woman. Are there any single ladies like you left in Kentucky? All my people came from there but I live in southern Ohio now. I'm ready to move home if there's a chance in heck that at least 1 more adorable woman would be mine to love and cherish....

Wonder if that would help psoriasis itching hummm?

Poison Ivy only bothers me when I get the juice on me! Leaves don’t bother me!

This entire time I have been watching your channel, I thought Granny and Pap were your grandparents and wondered what had happened to your mother that they had to end up raising you….Finally this video cleared that mystery for me as I hear you clearly saying Granny was pregnant with You! My question now is why you call them these titles instead of mother and daddy or mom and dad? At what age did you change from those name to grandparent names for your personal use? I’m presuming when you had children and began to refer to them to the girls? It is very very confusing. Is this common in Appalachia? I’ve never in my life heard this before. Here in Texas, we continue to call our parents mother and daddy throughout our lives, except when speaking to our children when we tell them to go give this to your (usually) Granny (maternal side) or Mamaw (paternal grandmother). But we never call them those titles in relation to ourselves.

Doctor's diagnoses or misdiagnosis can be problematic. I wonder if this knowledge will be lost, like the knowledge of Alex Stewart, I wonder if anyone has tried to cultivate these wild herbs.

Don’t y’all call that touch me nots?

Looks like " spit flower:.