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From: mmm@weitek.UUCP (Mark Thorson)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Poison Oak Remedy
Message-ID: <275@weitek.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 21-Sep-85 18:30:54 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 21 18:30:54 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 25-Sep-85 07:03:44 EDT
Organization: Weitek Corp. Sunnyvale Ca.
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Keywords: poison ivy, oak, sumac

The best poison oak (this is California, remember) remedy I ever tried is
called IVY-DRY.  Its active ingrediants are tannic acid and alchohol.
Its advantages over calamine are:

1. It works.  Calamine never did for me.

2. It looks like tea.  When you dab it on, it is barely visible.
   Calamine looks like some loathsome skin disease (unless your
   complexion is exactly calamine color).

Mark Thorson (...!cae780!weitek!mmm)