Psychedelic Pupil said:

That's not true Bod. on many levels. You can develop an immunity, as I did, after sever exposure. It's also not a poison, but many, many animals develop resistance to poisons. Not only can people develop resistance to poison but it even has a name. The practice is called Mithridatism and was very common in the past in rulers who feared assassination from poison.

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TheFakeSunRa said:

eating poison ivy will definitely kill you

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DontFearThePeepr said:

there's a guy i saw on viceland who apparently was obsessed with becoming a "snake man" so he acquired a collection of rare venomous snakes and would continuously inject himself with snake venom.

there were some pretty outrageous claims but it didnt kill him and he even seemed to cop a buzz from it in a lot of cases. think he also mentioned that he was part of some studies that were spurred as a result of these activities.

so technically it shouldn't exactly be not possible....humans are very adaptive and life uhh.. uhh.. finds a way lol

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Psychedelic Pupil said:

Huh, I'm finding this all pretty interesting. Especially the obstinacy due to lack of research. In 1940 there was a clinical test done for treating extreme poison ivy allergies. The link is below. It's a long read. I did read it all and the methods are well described. I'll sum up for you though. He used an extract diluted in corn oil in gel capsules. There are different dosing schedules described and over various periods of time. He also tried muscular injection. Like a vaccine. That didn't work. The oral therapy did. The number of people treated is too small to be definitive in my opinion, but he trusted it enough to treat both his sons.

Here's a quote from the conclusion "Some forty selected ivy-sensitive persons have, to date, been treated by either shock or prolonged fractional oral therapy. Reduction in skin sensitivity, as shown by quantitative patch test,s, has occurred in all volunteers thus treated."

https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0021-8707(41)80009-4/pdf

Personally, I wouldn't follow his methods as many doses caused poison ivy on the ass and some other really crazy stuff at higher doses. The low dose method didn't have many side effects

Now that I've gotten interested in this subject more because, as I said, my girlfriend has severe reactions, I've found other studies that back up oral treatment. Here's another one:

https://www.jacionline.org/article/0021-8707(59)90082-6/pdf

And some quotes...

"The bencficial therapeutic effects of oral ivy dates back to the report of Dakin2 in 1829. Warren3 produced immunity by administering the extract orally in 1909. Schamberg4 was the first to popularize the ingestion of the ivy resin which he dissolved in alcohol. Shelmire” employed t,hc ivy resin in diluted corn oil and gave it by mouth in daily doses. There have been many reports6+’ since then on the efficacy of oral ivy therapy."

"The results tend to show that Aqua Ivy Tablets offer immunity against.
poison ivy dermatitis.. This conclusion appears warranted on the basis of
the double-blind, controlled study which gave statistically significant results, as well as the clinical study in which 88 per cent of men with a past history of poison ivy dermatitis, under conditions of heavy exposure, had no dermatitis at all."

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nerd23 said:

I have wondered if you could gather alot of it, then dry it and grind into a powder. This would give you a consistent stock to dose from (much like we all know how to do).

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I'm on day 6 of ingesting poison ivy in capsules. I upped my dose today to 1/2 of a dried new leaf from 1/4. I've been using the new emerging leaves because they have less urushiol on them compared to mature older leaves, and this is exactly what my friend did who had success taking it internally. I think from here forward I'll grind the rest down and weigh it out into capsules for more measured and consistent dosing. It makes more sense

mndfreeze said:

Everyone please remember this is a harm reduction website and this specific forum section does not allow flaming people.  Please keep the pseudoscience to a minimum and be careful.  Without much in the way of a REAL scientific study we don't want to encourage others to do something that may harm them.

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sui said:

Carefully, it seems to have accumulative affect.

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