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     may still be too new to really know if there is Life for it after the
     Candles. I'm seeing a lot of oils and lotions saying it's in there,
     though.
  3. Continue to use the old standby's with DEET in them, like Off's
     Offtastic, or whatever, or Cutter's. Have heard personal testimonials
     on Cutter's.
  4. Investigate local ancient customs; as I discovered when I read the
     area's native Indians, the Karankawas, employed an effective remedy to
     a problem which was (unbelievably) much more horrid than it presently
     is; that is, they killed them an alligator, skinned him, liquified the
     fat and slathered it on! Kept quite a few things away, one of which
     WAS mosquitoes!

Seriously, though, there is probably something in that we could replicate
today with something similar but more sweet-smelling. So, if anyone has any
ideas, as well as things to ingest that might make your "scent" less
attractive to mosquitoes, please post!

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                       3.1.2 And now you're bitten...
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From EderChiro.aol.com:
Use lavender oil (small drop) applied directly on mosquito bites.

From Henriette:
Lush Stellaria media does the trick, too - just roll into a ball and let
the juice drop onto your bite(s).

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From Noel Gilmore (ngilmore.gate.net):
Allow me to pass on my husband's rather simplistic (and annoying) remedy to
keep mosquito bites from itching and swelling...DON'T SCRATCH 'EM. For
years I suffered all summer while he did not and he would always tell me it
was because he disciplined himself not to scratch. Last year we went to the
Yucatan jungle for vacation and I couldn't bear to cover myself from head
to toe each day with repellent, so I asked him to help me remember not to
scratch, and I have to admit it worked!

From Tim Keenan (tkeenan.uoguelph.ca) to above:
As someone who has lived and worked on the arctic tundra and in the boreal
forest for decades, I have to agree...I never use DEET or any other
repellent. If the bugs are so thick I can't breath without inhaling them, I
use a "SkeeterGuard" fine-mesh net jacket, with a net hood that zips across
the throat. Otherwise, I hit 'em if I feel 'em. If I don't feel 'em, I
hardly ever develop any reaction. If I have a reaction, usually if I get
bit somewhere where the skin is thin (over a wrist bone, etc.) I generally
ignore it and it goes away. I never get a bump _unless_ I scratch. This
goes for black flies, too. I think the best answer is to get bit early and
often, and you will become acclimatized to it. Rubbing and scratching
causes all sorts of local histamine response, which really aggravates the
situation.

From Lane.monty.rand.org (Janis Lane) to above:
I have been getting TERRIBLE spider bites. The doctor told me that I was
having a chemical reaction (arm was burning hot and swollen). He told me
the SAME thing..."do NOT scratch". I stopped scratching and it seems that
the bites are not swelling but are just turning to bruises. Any suggestions
for THIS?

From Sharon Rust (ntlor.primenet.com) to above:
For spider bites I have used fresh papaya and when I haven't had the fresh
stuff papaya - pineapple enzymes, these work for bee and wasp and scorpion
stings as well. I chew up the enzyme tablet to make a paste and stick it on
the bite , the papaya I just stick a chunk on . When I use to live where
plantain (Plantago rotundifolia, or lanceolata) grew I used it for bites,
it seemed to work on bee, spider and mosquito bites. To use plantain I
would get a fresh leaf and chew it up with my front teeth, taking care not
to swallow the juices and then stick this wad of chewed up plant on the
bite(s). When my daughter and niece stepped into a swarm of yellow jackets
luckily it was in a field filled with plantain, I started chewing up and
applying the plantain to my daughter and my sister-in-law did the same for
her daughter, the bites on my daughter were disappearing but my niece was
getting no relief, so when I was finished with my daughter's bites, I
started applying plantain to my nieces, the ones that I worked on were also
disappearing , the key was that my sister-in-law was swallowing the juices
released from the plant and I was not. I suppose you could use a blender or
something but most of the time I feel that this is the fastest and simplest
way to treat a bite.

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-- 
Henriette Kress, AHG                      Helsinki, Finland
Henriette's herbal homepage: http://www.ibiblio.org/herbmed

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