[Herbalist] tea tree/neem?

[Tara Boroson]

It's also used as a flea shampoo for pets.  It rings a bell that it
might be used for repelling other insect type pests.

-Magdalena

Gaylin Walli wrote:

> I'm still looking through my notes to try and find the reference, but
> somewhere I read a few of the studies that indicated that Neem was
> being used successfully as a fungicide in African countries and in the
> Australian outback. Darned if I can find that off the bat. It was a
> really wacky search online to get to it, too. Right now most of what
> you get is information about the neem patent being revoked and a whole
> lot on the use of neem as a treatment for head lice. Darn darn darn
> those computer crashes and my lack of forethought in burning my URL
> list to CD (she says, pulling out a CD to burn a recent backup of
> everything). If I find it, I'll share. If someone else finds it, hey,
> let me know!
>
> Cheers,
>
> iasmin
>
> On Thursday, December 5, 2002, at 06:37 PM, Christine Seelye-King wrote:
>
>>
>> I usually think of neem in association with dental/gum related
>> treatments.
>> I'd have to look it up to see how close they are, a chemical analysis
>> would
>> be ideal for figuring out whether they'd be interchangable.
>> Christianna
>
>
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