Okay, a few thoughts:

If it has any ability to move mercury or other metals, then I would say it
is potentially dangerous. If you don't know what you are doing, then I
would say anything which has any hope of being effective is dangerous
(possibly very dangerous). I would compare it to having sharp kitchen
knives and a hot stove -- you can cut or burn yourself with them but you
cannot make a meal without them. The stuff that is effective is also
potentially dangerous and needs to be handled with care, by someone with a
little basic knowledge about how to use them safely (knowledge you can get
on this list for several chelators but cilantro is still largely a mystery).

If you want a fairly detailed description of one person's experience using
cilantro to good effect, you can search the archives for letters by me that
talk about cilantro. I still have plans to finish going through the
archives for posts with reference to cilantro and pass that info on to Moria
but this has been a really butt-kicking year and I haven't gotten any
further on that project in many months. So don't hold your breathe.

The short version of my experiences: I was extraordinarily ill and had been
working at recovering for a long time already. I began eating at a mexican
restaurant. I felt so much better on days when I ate there that I began
having lunch there almost every single day and I also began trying to figure
out what was in the food that was helping me heal. I found out that some of
the spices helped with my respiratory problems and that the food was
organic. Those were clues but did not seem to be the whole story. About 6
months after I began eating there, I joined this list and learned that
cilantro is apparently a chelator. That seemed to be the last piece of the
puzzle. However, I still have amalgams in my mouth and after about 15
months of eating cilantro in my lunch, I began having a metallic taste in my
mouth, headaches, nausea, and other negative side effects following lunch.
It took me a couple of weeks to fully make the connection and discontinue
eating lunch there. So, I would say that ANYTHING which works as a chelator
has the potential to dump mercury into your body if you chelate while you
still have amalgams in your mouth. The advice that you usually see on this
list is to have the amalgams removed first. I think that is generally a
wise precaution.

There are a lot of other things I did while eating cilantro which appear to
have helped the process along (things I did to treat my health problems
which just COINCIDENTALLY supported the removal of mercury from my system).
I tested some of those as a hypothesis when I began having a metallic taste
in my mouth . The things I had come to suspect were supporting the process
did, in fact, reduce the negative side effects during that two week period.
One thing which helped was hot salt-water baths. Another which helped was
taking guafenisen (an expectorant). A third which helped was eating fatty
foods (the fat seems to absorb toxins and then I would have diarhea). A
former list member once said that you need to promote excretion through the
skin and have a toxin "sink" in the stomach as well to effectively remove
metals that have been mobilized by chelators. That resonates with my
experience. His view was that chlorella made an effective toxin sink in the
gut. I have no experience with chlorella. Instead, I used fats for the same
purpose. He is no longer on this list and I wouldn't personally desire to
refer anyone to him, so I hope no one will name names here. I am just
trying to give the best information available concerning cilantro and
chlorella -- if you are planning on using them regardless of how many people
tell you it is a bad idea, I hope you will at least try to find the best
means to use them.

I got really, really lucky and had a good experience with using cilantro
(which I completely stumbled upon and had no idea what I was doing at
first). The vast majority of folks on this list who have tried cilantro
have had bad experiences. And the fact is, I simply stumbled upon something
that worked and tried by observation to figure out what I was doing right.
There seems to generally be a dearth of solid information on how to properly
use cilantro. So the safest route would be to use one of the chelators for
which a well-known protocol exists.

HTH,

--
Michele in Limbo (formerly in California)

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