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.
Since the green leaves of poisonous plants blend right in with other types of vegetation, itâs possible to sit down right in the middle of a patch of poison ivy and not even know itâs there â until later, of course, when the itching starts. Itâs not good enough to just know what one type of poison ivy looks like.