HERB - Echinacea & Ragweed

lklc lklc at prodigy.net
Mon May 1 10:08:49 PDT 2000


>   OK, so if I'm understanding all this correctly, we have a family with
> potentially nasty pollens.  (I'm telling you, ragweed looked like a
weapon!)
> But it's the pollens themselves, not the rest of the plant, that are the
> problem.  So it may be safe for an asthmatic to take echinacia root, but
keep
> them away from chamomile flowers.  Or flowering echinacia, for that
matter.
> (Which I hope to have in my garedn in a year or two...and one of the women
I
> sew for is asthmatic.  Oh, dear.)
>
> --Katherine Blackthorne
> (1597 Englishwoman)
> West Kingdom
>
>
>Yes, if she is allergic to just the pollen.  Which is most likely the case.
Keep in mind, a diagnosis of asthma does not define the allergy.  Asthma is
often associated with allergy, but without lots of testing we don't know
everything she is allergic to.
For that matter do you know if she is allergic to the pollens of this plant?
:>!
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