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So I chopped up a large Agave plant with my chainsaw. What a silly boy! Much wiser now after checking on Google and using an oatmeal soup to calm the horrendous rash and accompanying itching. Fortunately had goggles on so kept the juice from my eyes. Apparently the sap contains sodium oxalate crystals which pierce the skin and cause a nasty reaction. A word of warning for anyone else hacking at foreign plants. Oh and before anyone mentions it, I am not making Tequila from it!