Evening Jess,
>> At 03:47 PM 6/23/2007, you wrote:
A friend of mine told me they took a little Epsom salt internally for
dehydration in India after vigorous sports. I had never heard of taking it
internally, just heard about bathing in it. Jess
More and more people are taking it internally. Even though it is in
fact Magnesium Sulfate, I am not sure the sulphur is available.
None of the containers I have show the amount of sulphur.
Sulphur based proteins are important. Most Americans do not get enough of
these. I think MSM provides some sulphur.
I know it is a necessary nutrient for plants, as is magnesium.
It is 9.7 % magnesium and 13 % sulphur.
Several different forms of Magnesium Sulfate exist.
Magnesium sulfate heptahydrate seems to be the main form used for Epsom
Salts. Likely both are available to humans as they are plants.
This link tells about the early history as Epsom Salts being used as a
medicine. http://unames.com/floating/epsom.htm
Epsom salts seems to contribute to plant health and vigor when used
properly. Often I tailor my nutrients to any new or experimental crop I am
growing. In this case, I had 12 strawberry towers.
So, I mixed the ppm of all nutrients for the strawberries and let the other
crops do the best they could.
The tomatoes showed me some interesting growth habits. Full size tomatoes
had clusters very close, some as close together as one inch.
Cherry tomato clusters forked 5 times and made near 50 tomatoes per
cluster. Fortunately, I calculated all this with a software package and
did a printout. I have a printout of every batch in a folder in my desk.
Here is a picture of the most awesome cherry tomato I have seen, and many
others say the same.
http://www.fugitt.com/chertom.htm
If you look close, you can see the branching of the clusters.
Maybe someone can tell us if humans utilize the sulphur in Epsom Salts.
Wayne
