Mollison has said: Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labour; and of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single product system..
The juice of jewelweed is a traditional remedy for all sorts of skin ailments including poison ivy. An oft-repeated folk saying, Wherever poison ivy is found, jewelweed grows close by. To use it, you can simply crush the leaves and rub it on the itchy places.
Poison ivy has leaves in groups of three. Each left has its own stem, and the middle leaf has the longest stem. Sometimes you might see fewer leaves, if a deer ate one of them and left two behind, and there are a few cases where the plant is damaged and grows four leaves instead of three, but 99 percent of the time, poison ivy has all its leaves in groups of three.