nerium oleander, and our ever-vigilant FDA

[Guest guest]

, you beat me to the punch. I was planning to look it up, and you posted great links. Thanks. The list of cultivars of nerium oleander is very broad. I looked it up in Wikipedia, which says that all oleander is nerium. So I guess any that I find will be OK. Next, how do I approach someone with plants in their hedge for clippings without sounding like I plan to poison a whole banquet?

From Wikipedia Nerium oleander), is an evergreen shrub or small tree in the dogbane family Apocynaceae. It is the only species currently classified in the genus Nerium

Despite a lack of any proven benefits[1], a range of Oleander-based treatments are being promoted on the Internet and in some alternative medicine circles, drawing a warning letter from the FDA in the US.[2]

 

^ Phase I Study of AnvirzelTM in Patients with Advanced Solid Tumors. - ASCO

^ Anvirzel Letter

Not from WIKIPEDIA ConsumerReports has a long paragraph about another way our FDA is protecting us, I don't think so! To paraphrase: Monsanto introduced rbGH (recombinant bovine growth hormone in 1994. 20% of dairy herds now use it. Consumers have been switching to dairy that is labeled rbGH free, costing Monsanto revenue. So Monsanto has pushed states to restrict or prohibit labels stating that dairy is rbGH free. So far they have been successful in Ohio and Pennsylvania! Several additional states have legislation in the works to prevent labels of antibiotic-free and rbGH free!

Rhoda

[Guest guest]

Oh Rhoda you are so funny! I am sitting here laughing so hard I'm

crying. LOL LOL LOL!!!!!!!

 

You say..... " Pardon me ma'am/sir, that is a lovely plant you have.

Would you mind if I took a clipping or two so I could root my own? " In

fact I had someone say that very thing to me today with regard to my

rose bush. And of course I said yes.

 

On a serious note. I don't think that all oleander are Nerium. Just

get oleander plants that look like the pictures posted on the link I

gave you. The one that contains the recipe. Nothing else.

 

Hugs,

 

 

 

oleander soup , " Rhoda Mead " <firefly541

wrote:

>

> *, you beat me to the punch. I was planning to look it up, and

you

> posted great links. Thanks. The list of cultivars of nerium oleander

is very

> broad.

>

> I looked it up in Wikipedia, which says that all oleander is nerium.

So I

> guess any that I find will be OK. Next, how do I approach someone with

> plants in their hedge for clippings without sounding like I plan to

poison a

> whole banquet?

>

> *From Wikipedia Nerium oleander), is an

> evergreen<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen>

> shrub <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrub> or small

> tree<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree>in the dogbane family

> Apocynaceae <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocynaceae>. It is the only

> species currently classified in the

genus<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genus>

> *Nerium*

>

> Despite a lack of any proven

> benefits[1]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleander#cite_note-0>,

> a range of Oleander-based treatments are being promoted on the

Internet and

> in some alternative

> medicine<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_medicine>circles,

> drawing a warning letter from the

> FDA <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDA> in the

> US<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US>

> .[2] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleander#cite_note-1>

>

>

> 1. *^ <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleander#cite_ref-0>* Phase I

Study

> of AnvirzelTM in Patients with Advanced Solid Tumors. -

>

ASCO<http://www.asco.org/portal/site/ASCO/menuitem.34d60f5624ba07fd506fe\

310ee37a01d/?vgnextoid=76f8201eb61a7010VgnVCM100000ed730ad1RCRD & vmview=a\

bst_detail_view & confID=10 & abstractID=2077>

> 2. *^ <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleander#cite_ref-1>* Anvirzel

> Letter<http://www.fda.gov/cder/warn/mar2000/dd030500.pdf>

>

> Not from WIKIPEDIA ConsumerReports has a long paragraph about another

> way our FDA is protecting us, I don't think so! To paraphrase:

Monsanto

> introduced rbGH (recombinant bovine growth hormone in 1994. 20% of

dairy

> herds now use it. Consumers have been switching to dairy that is

labeled

> rbGH free, costing Monsanto revenue. So Monsanto has pushed states to

> restrict or prohibit labels stating that dairy is rbGH free. So far

they

> have been successful in Ohio and Pennsylvania! Several additional

states

> have legislation in the works to prevent labels of antibiotic-free and

rbGH

> free!

>

> Rhoda

>