I have several trades of this plant. It is a great poison ivy remedy and an anti-fungal..Likes shade to part shade. Every garden should have one!
This plant is native here in Ohio.
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Here is a close up.
How tall does it get? What are you looking for?
xxxx, Carrie
I am interested in this plant. how is it used for poison ivy? My DD is very alergic to it and had to take the shots to try to help her immune system to fight it.
clarkranch, I would be interested in it as DGD is very allergic to poison ivy. This would be a welcome addition to anyone's garden. What do you want in trade?
If you check this out on http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/1431/index.html You will see the detailed info on this plant...I love it! I would like to trade hellebores (lenten rose) or bluebells or anything hardy in my area or blooming house plants.
Ways to Use Jewelweed
When you are out in the field and find you have been exposed to poison ivy, oak, or stinging nettle you can reach for the jewelweed plant and slice the stem, then rub its juicy inside on exposed parts. This will promptly ease irritation and usually prevents breakout for most people.
Jewelweed or an infusion made from boiling leaves of Impatiens capensis may be frozen for later use. Brew chopped jewelweed in boiling water until you get a dark orange liquid. Yellow Jewelweed will not yield orange color and may not be effective. Strain the liquid and pour into ice cube trays. When you have a skin rash, rub it with a jewelweed cube and you will be amazed with its healing properties. It will keep in freezer up to a year. You can also preserve the infusion by canning it in a pressure cooker.
Clarkranch...when I was younger and had poison ivy an elderly indian woman took me to the forest and we found jewelweed and she instructed me much the same as you've described...she said that the cure is never much further than 30' from the plant that creates the problem...I often find it here more where it's damp...this remedy works better than any medication I've ever had....thanks for your photo's..keep telling friends about this remedy but they seem to think it an old wives tale...I'll earmark you posts so I can use it for future reference..tks
I have been looking for jewelweed as a trade. I have helleborous to trade. I'll send several babies, as well as a couple of mature plants so that you may get some blooms this spring. (The transplanting may hold it back a season, but I don't know for sure.)
Great pins...sending you d-mail!
clarkranch
i have this and didnt know whatit was,love the blooms,mine just come up out of the blue,i guess the birds put it there,thxs for the info
moretz
Me too. I had asked for ID on the ID forum. I love this. I have both the orange/yellow and pale yellow. LOVE it.
I'd love some -- but don't know what you'd like as a trade. I have tons of Begonia Grandis, but I don't know how well it mails. I dearly love it. Or Persicaria Virginiana 'Lance Corporal'. Or Spiraea Anthony Waterer. I'll think what else I might have you'd be interested in.
Or I'm happy to pay postage if you'd prefer.
hi, happy. Do you have any herbs? or fall planting bulbs?
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I have so little! Of herbs, all I have to trade is lemon balm, I think. I have a lot, but not enough to divide. Anything in particular you are looking for? If it is something I wanted anyway, maybe I can buy some and divide it. And no bulbs. Too bad, alas! Now in a year or two I might be better situated. . . . but for now, pickings are slim. So sorry!
how about some lemon balm? I would love a bunch of that!
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I just wanted to let everyone know that I got stung today by a packsaddle/caterpillar worm.It was hurting pretty bad. It made 3 welps and was swelling and turning red. I got some jewellweed and put on it and it quit hurting. The swelling and welps are gone now. I really like the jewellweed. Wish I had known about it years ago. Pauletta
what part did you use ? the leaves?
I used the leaves and the stem. I think someone else said to use the stem but if you can squish juice out of the leaves, it works too. I have used it on poison ivy too.I was in a hurry to get it to quit hurting and I just grabbed both of them and squished them real quick and rubbed them on my arm. It wasn't but a few minutes till my arm quit hurting. Yaaahhh!!! for Jewellweed!!!..........Pauletta
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need to put in picture files
moretz
The edge of the woods around my yard is full of jewelweed. I thought they were an annual that reseeded itsself each year. We always called if "touch-me-not" when I was a kid because the seedpods would explode when you touched them showering seeds everywhere. They spread like wildfire around here.
Here's a pic. Much of the edge of my yard is like this.
early_bloomer
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