RASH SOLUTIONS: The Chumash had a word...

RASH SOLUTIONS: The Chumash had a word for the poison oak that’s blanketing Ventura County (B1). They called it medicine. The Chumash used sap from poison oak to remove warts and treated wounds with its powdered leaves, said Jan Timbrook, an ethnobotanist at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. She hastily added: “I don’t recommend that.”