Re[2]: Safety of Chaparral??

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LOL, Yes anything can be overdone, I have never run into problems with chaparral, when my mouth gets too dry- thats my signal to lay off for a bit.

 

Friday, August 18, 2006, 6:39:53 PM, you wrote:

 

> Yes, you can eat too many Hershey bars too.....

 

 

 

> herbal remedies , zoe w <ilovegrafix

> wrote:

 

>> Hello gracegnade,

>> I live where the chapparral grows in the wild, Ive been

> collecting and using it for about 12 years with no ill effects, I

> use it as a tea and as a tincture and its one of the main

> ingredients in my Herbal Antibiotic- It is now being sold in dry

> form in our groceries as a tea, but Im sure its not as potent as

> the stuff I collect myself.

>> Its particularly helpful during a cold, because it helps to dry

> things up. Best collected in the Spring just as it begins to bloom-

> its particularly strong then, but its still worth collecting

> almost any time of the year. And it lasts forever it seems like.

> Its called the Creosote Bush here because of its distinctive

> smell. You know when they are about long before you can see

> them. If I had to limit myself to only 12 herbs, Chapparral would

> be on the top of the list.

 

>> This doesn't mean that you can use it indiscriminitely- It CAN be

> overdone, your body should tell you when you've had enough.

 

>> I don't think we have any useful herb that you can't find negative

> reports about, Pay attention to who wrote the article, who did the

> research and who paid for the research. Im sure you will find all

> manner of Ulterior motives

>> behind the negativity.

>> zoe

>> Thursday, August 17, 2006, 6:52:27 PM, you wrote:

 

>> > Two questions, actually:

>> > 1) Can anyone tell me about how chaparral may be taken

> safely, if

>> > at all? I have a blood detox herbal tincture mixture from a

> company

>> > that I have respected, but when I was looking up the individual

> herbs

>> > I found quite a bit of negative reporting about chapparal - the

> only

>> > site that I found a study that supported safe ingestion of

> chaparral was:

>> > http://www.raysahelian.com/chaparral.html

>> > But even so a negative study was cited first and then a study

> that

>> > said it was ok in small doses.

 

>> > 2) This same blood detox mixture has some small amounts of

>> > essential oils in it. It is a mixture meant for ingestion. Has

>> > anyone ever heard of taking essential oils into the body?? I had

>> > heard the very opposite.

 

>> > Thanks in advance for any help on this.

 

>> > Dan Hamilton

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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