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Here's some info on Oleander =

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/poison/oleander.asp

Smitty



On 7/9/07, Marshall Dudley <[email protected]> wrote:
We had one in our troop during a camp out who when the rest of use were
smoking grape vines, smoked a poison ivy vine, and it almost killed him.

Marshall

Day Sutton wrote:
> There is an old story about a Boy Scout who cut  an Oleander branch to
> roast his hotdog
> on and it killed him.....very toxic stuff...
>
> On 7/6/07, *Jonathan B. Britten * <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>
>     I have information from an expert herbalist that a low-cost --
>     virtually free -- home-brew concoction made from the leaves of a very
>     toxic plant has powerful anti-cancer properties very similar to the
>     famous Cansema Tonic III.    The poisonous plant is Oleander, which
>     goes by various other names.
>
>     Wikipedia has a good page on Oleander, and if one Google's "Oleander
>     Soup" some  home-brew recipes can be found.   Reportedly these yield a
>     decoction identical in effect to a patented drug that made it through
>     stage one trials with the FDA, and evidently went no further.
>
>     As always, proceed with caution and at your own risk.   By the
>     way, the
>     toxic aspects of this plant sound very similar to an unrelated
>     American
>     wild plant known as "mountain laurel."  Boy scouts and other campers
>     learn not to burn it, as even the smoke is highly toxic.   I was once
>     told that Native Americans bent on suicide might turn to mountain
>     laurel.
>
>     I never did find a recipe for a home-brew cansema,  but the
>     information
>     I got may prove more useful, as I was aiming at providing information
>     to persons without many financial resources.    Oleander soup is
>     unbeatable on that basis, except for Graviola, which also grows widely
>     in SE Asia.
>
>     I am tracking the reported slow recovery of a doctor-diagnosed stage
>     four cancer patient who is drinking graviola tea -- leaves and
>     twigs --
>     on a daily basis, and has quickly given up daily morphine use for
>     pain.
>        Sounds like progress to me, God willing.
>
>     Had it not been for the cansema search, I doubt I'd ever have heard of
>     Oleander, despite having open ears.   Spread the word (with
>     CAVEATS IN
>     LARGE TYPE.)
>
>
>     On Friday, Jul 6, 2007, at 18:13 Asia/Tokyo, Mark Siepak wrote:
>
>     > Poison ivy, oak, and sumac do not 'spread:' the skin just takes
>     longer
>     > to react in some areas that don't have as much urushiol on them. It
>     > appears that it is 'spreading,' when it is, in fact, a delayed
>     > reaction.
>
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