Rhus Chicken Toxicity

Poison_ivy

This month Dr. Abram spoke about a new and interesting way to be poisoned by poison Ivy. In Korea, they put pieces of the stems inside a chicken when cooking it to “help make you feel better when sick.”  The paper describing such a case can be found here:

rhus chicken

If you don’t know what poison ivy (or any of those toxicodendron plants) look like, take a look at this image.  I would recommend you avoid this stuff when outside.

Poison_Oak_Ivy_Sumac

Liz was also nice enough to write a summary of the toxic chicken article.  That can be found by clicking here:

Rhus chicken summary

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