I very much doubt it.

If any common or even uncommon herb or food had true anti-helminthic properties
it would have been recognized and promoted as such long ago, and the invention
of anti-helminthic drugs like Ablendazole, which only came along as the first in
the mid 50's, would not have necessary.

Chicory is widely eaten, and yet people all over the world still have worms.
Ditto for lettuce.

I don't think you have anything to worry about, unless perhaps you are planning
on eating five pounds of it at one sitting or something.

The same principle applies to anything you might ordinarily eat. The exceptions
might be in unusually concentrated forms, or extracts, or traditional herbal
remedies.

But a food, I don't think so.

Jasper

--- In helminthictherapy@yahoogroups.com, Marya DeBlasi <marya_deblasi@...>
wrote:
>
> I have long heard that lettuces were calming to the intestines, so I thought
that they would be good for me to eat.  Someone today, however, told me that
chicory was toxic to parasitic intestinal worms.  Should I be avoiding chicory? 
How about the other bitter lettuces, dandelion et c.?
> Marya
>