Thursday, November 02, 2006

Education about proper dose as the better approach to misdosing.

Herbs may benefit some disorders, but also can adversely affect other organ functioning. Best to find an MD you trust and be sure your use of herbs fits your situation and othe drugs you may be taking. No sense in triggering something worse than what you've got. See www.geocities.com/mamablondie/herbs, for info on herbs and the liver.

Use of herbs means dosage, handling, purity, amount, all that.

See more on sassafras at www.bhikku.net/archives/03/apr03. Overview on the word itself, where it is from, its word in other languages, description of the shrub understory form, the sassafras laurel and ague-tree, discovery by Spaniards in 1528, medicinal use, saloop - hot drink, powdered "salep" and later sassafras, and milk and sugar, popular in London. Arabic uses, derivations: short sample here -

Dogstones and other language interests. In other languages, it is salep (France), salép (Spain), Pg. salepo, a. Turkish salep, a. Arabic thaleb (pronounced in some parts saleb), taken to be a shortening of khasyu 'th-thalab orchis (lit. ‘fox's testicles’; cf. the Eng. name ‘DOGSTONES’.)] Saloop is a nutritive meal, starch, or jelly made from the dried tubers of various orchidaceous plants, chiefly those of the genus Orchis; formerly also used as a drug. See dogstones. For more on the orchis family, go to www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/o/orchid13.

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