HERB -was asthma, back to hair

[Katherine Blackthorne]

Lynette wrote:

Re: licorice
>Please heed this warning.  Glycrrhizin increases salt and water
>retention,causing dangerous side effects, including abnormal heart action
>and kidney failure,  triggered by potassium depletion.  Licorice should be
>avoided by anyone with any heart problems and those with high blood
>pressure., kidney problems, obesity, pregnant women, and anyone taking
>diuretics (which can enhance the potassium  depleting ).  Many people are
>allergic to even small amounts of licorice.  Asthmatics are usually allergic
>to many thing.  If you feel that you must experiment.  Talk this over with
>your doctor.  Have your self tested for allergy first.  please don' t play
>around on this one.
>Toxicity has been reported from less than a gram of glycyrrhizin in chewing
>tobacco.

Thank you.  I was not aware of these "contra-indications" for licorice.
(While I have never had a problem using it myself, I shall be more carefull
in serving it to others in the future.)

>Try mayonnaise on your hair its like a oil treatment, protein treatment and
>vinegar treatment all in one.  It's icky but works.
>We used beer, as a rinse too.  makes hair shine gives body.
>Try an egg, beaten and raw when you shampoo.  Adds body and oil.

Really?  Your mom used beer?  So did my grandmother!  <grins impishly>

--Katherine Blackthorne


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