> MMessage: 3
> Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 20:58:12 -0800
> From: Moria <moriam@...>
> Subject: report on experimental use of cilantro
>
> Hi list,
>
> First a few caveats: I am NOT recommending this to anyone else,
> I am merely reporting on what I did and what happened, to the
> extent that I can tell LOL. I have been chelating with ALA-only,
> for over a year, and expect that I am probably significantly
> detoxed. Lately I use 300 mg per dose (every 3 to 3.5 hours),
> and I have ALMOST NO SIDE-EFFECTS from this.
>
> As many of you know, cilantro is widely rumored to chelate mercury.
> I have remained interested in this, and did an experimental run
> using it. This is my report LOL.
>
> For 2 weekends (Feb 22-24 and Mar 1 - 3) I took a combination
> of 300 mg of ALA and two dropperfuls of cilantro tincture, every
> 3 hours (daytime) to 3.5 hours (nighttime). I did this for 2.6
> days "on" each weekend. (This is my regular schedule).
>
> The cilantro tincture I used is a tincture which I made, from
> fresh cilantro, about a year ago. I did not measure the proportions
> of cilantro to alcohol, but within this "batch" the concentration
> should be constant. (I have quite a lot of it.) Two dropperfuls
> is a generally similar amount from dose to dose (but not EXACTLY
> the same).
>
> I have no idea how long cilantro is "active" in the bloodstream,
> and have no reason to think that 3 hours is the "correct" time
> between doses. I used this time very arbitrarily, as it is
> what I *alread* use for ALA.
>
> During each of these 2 weekends I experienced noticably more
> "problems" than usual, including: consitpation, loose stools,
> general bowel distress, emotional upset, feeling emotionally
> fragile, feeling extremely tired, feeling physically heavy,
> some depression, and mental unfocusedness.
> (Note: the 1st weekend I was also menstrating, and some symptoms
> may be due to that. As usual, things do not take place in a vacumn!)
> All of those symptoms are ATYPICAL for me at the level they occured.
>
> My impression is that my use of cilantro did CAUSE noticeable
> differences. This is an IMPRESSION and not a solid conclusion:
> it could have been coincidence, but I think it wasn't.
> I do not conclude that this was "good" or "bad". I do,
> tentatively, conclude that it "does something".
>
> This weekend I'm back to just ALA (300 mg every 3 hours),
> and, other than being really tired (presumably from waking at
> night), things seem "more normal".
>
> Finally, I will repeat the very same caveats from the beginning:
>
> I am NOT recommending this to anyone else,
> I am merely reporting on what I did and what happened, to the
> extent that I can tell LOL. I have been chelating with ALA
> only for over a year, and expect that I am probably significantly
> detoxed. Lately I use 300 mg per dose (every 3 to 3.5 hours),
> and I have ALMOST NO SIDE-EFFECTS from this.
>
> best wishes,
> Moria
>

Moria

Back in October, before we started chelating our son, I experimented with
cilantro from my garden.

I simply took 5 fresh leaf stalks (petiole and leaflets) and juiced them in a
juicer with some carrot juice and water. That didnt really amount to much.

The effect I saw with my son was similar to that of when he has received higher
doses of dmsa (teeth grinding and head shaking) but far worse than the dmsa. I
never tried it again as that scared me.

It definitely did something. Looking back and knowing now how he reacts to DMSA
I would say it was working, it would be too difficult to determine what rate to
give it. I think it should be researched to determine what in it is chelating
and at what rate is applicable. It would be interesting too if it was able to
cross the blood brain barrier.

Keith