--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: > You take stuff way too seriously. I was kidding you based on what you > said the other day. Indeed I have experienced cardamom diminishing the > effect of caffeine and a bunch of us where I worked kept it around to > tone down any extra caffeination. I don't think it's placebo, it's a > chemical reaction. And actually we we're using it that way to begin with > but more as an after dinner thing which Dr. Robert Svoboda had mentioned > on one of his workshops I attended. I noticed later in a list of > antidotes that it is good for caffeine.
Sorry, my bad. I was serious? Certainly if when taking something there is a chemical reaction (such as digestion) something has happened. Aspirin can be used to counteract some of the less desirable effects of chocolate. Chocolate plus aspirin may have anti-platelet activity that is stronger than either alone. cocao contains theobromine, caffeine, and phenethylamine tea contains caffeine, theophyline, and theobromine coffee contains caffeine and monoamine oxidase inhibitors (the latter might help alleviate depression) You may have noticed the respective stimulant effects of these foods is different.
