Stav, my allergic reaction is coughing & nazel-drip.. there is No urushi
here! any shakuhaci-doctors out there? it's driving me crazy.. Tj
> From: "Stav Tapuch" <tapuch@hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: Shakuhachi@communication.ucsd.edu
> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 18:28:17 +0000
> To: Shakuhachi@communication.ucsd.edu
> Subject: Re: [Shaku] jinashi - hocciku
>
>
> Could you be more specific concerning your allergic reactions?
>
> I had a monsturous allergic response after this past summer's International
> Shaku Festival - basically I tried so many flutes that at one point, i
> suspect, I played a brand new one and managed to get fresh urushi all over
> my hands. A couple of days later my fingers looked like freshly ground
> sausages split open over a hot flame. (and, no, sadly, this is not an
> exageration)
>
> Public service note to shakuhachi dealers and makers: kindly don't let
> people pick up and play the new flutes for sale without a basic warning.
> You have no idea how mortified I was to learn, after it was too late, that
> Urushi is basically Japanese for Poison Ivy Sap.
>
> So, are you having itching scratchy red swollen blisters like as with poison
> ivy, or something else?
>
>
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