# Benefits of urushiol oil? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 2, 2011, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/benefits-of-urushiol-oil/594986 "2011-09-02T18:16:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/benefits-of-urushiol-oil/594986/1 "2011-09-02T18:16:36Z")
Any one notice any positive side effects from poison ivy? I ask because poison ivy appeared to eradicate a skin tag on my arm. I contracted PI on my arm. it spread a little bit and surrounded a skin tag. Within days it turned red, then swelled the skin tag into a hard little ball that then deflated to the point where I just picked it off with no bleeding. Maybe it will comeback later, i don’t know but I am wondering what would happen to a wart exposed to urushiol oil? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/benefits-of-urushiol-oil/594986/2 "2011-09-02T18:31:08Z")
Whadayawannabet if you dilute it a bazillion times it’s a homeopathic remedy for something? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/benefits-of-urushiol-oil/594986/3 "2011-09-02T18:34:17Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Whadayawannabet if you dilute it a bazillion times it’s a homeopathic remedy for something? 😃 Most likely itching. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/benefits-of-urushiol-oil/594986/4 "2011-09-02T18:58:06Z")
I think the OP’s situation is possible. When I was kid I had warts. Lots of warts. I think it was 20 or 30 something at one time (mostly on my hands). I spent a month or so at a distant relatives one summer with other kids my age. Not much to do so we played in the pool, got bored, went inside for a bit, more pool, walked around the neighborhood, more pool…and so on and so on. These folks had the chlorine on that pool set to 11. I turned blonde. That much exposure to that stuff probably is not recommended by the surgeon general. But it DID make the warts go away. And they never came back. So I can imagine shit that aint good for skin in general might do some good here and there. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/benefits-of-urushiol-oil/594986/5 "2011-09-02T19:00:16Z")
I’ve got your remedy… Think face peel. ---
**Author:** ![Kyrie\_Eleison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kyrie_eleison/32/7682_2.png) [@Kyrie\_Eleison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyrie_Eleison)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/benefits-of-urushiol-oil/594986/6 "2011-09-02T21:27:01Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Whadayawannabet if you dilute it a bazillion times it’s a homeopathic remedy for something? 😃 Perhaps a preventative for poison ivy exposure? [The master speaks](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2757/what-poisons-can-i-safely-take-to-build-immunity-to-toxic-substances). But he does not mention diluting it a bazillionfold.