Guest guest Posted August 17, 2009 Report Share Posted August 17, 2009 Just curious, would it spread the irritant and make the patch grow? Anyone have an opinion? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 17, 2009 Report Share Posted August 17, 2009 I did a Google search on <urushiol +dmso> and found an Earth Clinic page where a couple of people were saying it does help dry up PI. http://preview.tinyurl.com/pjyemz Read this Earth Clinic page, it had several mentions of DMSO so I sent the cached version of the page with DMSO highlighted for easy scanning. There are a number of suggestions for treating PI including ACV or a paste of ACV and Baking Soda, which does foam up but will leave a paste. I have used a poultice of Yarrow, Clay, Slippery Elm and Comfrey to dry up PI blisters in a matter of 20 minutes. Yarrow is the main active ingredient, the others were things I had on hand and threw in. The one time I used it I had severe blisters from cutting a Mother Vine off a fence in winter. I only applied the poultice once. This Wikipedia page <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urushiol> says " Urushiol is a mixture of several closely-related organic compounds. Each consists of a catechol substituted with an alkyl chain that has 15 or 17 carbon atoms. The alkyl group may be saturated or unsaturated; urushiol oil is a mixture of saturated and unsaturated molecules. The mixture varies with the vegetative species. Whereas Western poison oak urushiol contains chiefly catechols with C17 side-chains,[2] poison ivy and poison sumac yield mostly catechols with C15 side-chains. The allergic reaction is dependent on the degree of unsaturation of the alkyl chain. Less than half of the general population reacts with the saturated urushiol alone, but over 90% react with urushiol containing at least two degrees of unsaturation (double bonds). " Maybe DMSO is *altering the chemical structure of the urushiol* so that it is no longer an allergen so it does not matter if it spreads or gets carried into the body? This is the first thing that popped into my mind when DMSO was suggested for PI, but you know DMSO is an antioxidant and reacts with some stuff so it's possible, not being a chemist I don't know for sure. I think I would be conservative until I had tried it on a small patch. Apparently those reporting on Earth Clinic found it beneficial. Garnet haecklers wrote: > > > Just curious, would it spread the irritant and make the patch grow? > Anyone have an opinion? > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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