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  • From: "John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Alert: Risk of injury, possibly serious, from giant hogweed plant. Video and documents.
  • Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:01:22 -0000


We have it in Europe and where I live in Ireland as well. It seems to like growing besides rivers and streams. And if you are especially sensitive it can do all the video says it can.
However, it is possible that allergies and reactions to toxins like this hogweed can be modulated by some mental techniques. EFT for instance does work for something like this. This unfortunately also means that if one expects the worst to happen after contact with the plant that this will likely also come to pass.
I myself and at least one of my children have some experience with the plant and we suffered nothing more than a temporary rash.
john

Does Toby have any comments on this plant? - LL

Seems to be a problem in Canada and Northern US.

This video says that serious skin blistering, permanent skin damage
and discoloring, blindness (if in contact with eyes) and increased
risk of cancer
can result from contact with the sap in giant hogweed (never heard of
it before this news). This is worse than poison ivy, if that is
possible.

Alert: Risk of injury from giant hogweed. Video and documents.
http://www2.worksafebc.com/Publications/Multimedia/Videos.asp?ReportID=34980

or the YouTube lowerres version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ9P1preCGM
has many other videos on this subject

Well worth watching:
----------------------------
The Giant Hogweed Project
12+ mins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb8htP-11QU&feature=related
outlines a global control project involving generating a hogweed
location database
using GPS and volunteers
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