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 is a plant that has three parted compound leaves. The hard thing about saying what it looks like is that aside from this fundamental leaves of three is that almost every other descriptor is variable. The leaves may be stiff and leathery, or thin and supple.