SC - Re: sca-cooks V1 #2565

[Decker, Terry D.]

    You're just not looking in the right pharmacies - you can get them in a
lot of oriental stores. We have a local Chinese restaurant/grocery
store/apothecary who sells them. And I might add the owner is a licensed
pharmacist who works at Eckerd's. Of course, he knows I cook strange foods,
and was concerned when I first came in to buy them that they were going to
wind up as an appetizer or something . . .

    Sieggy

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> They are used extensively in some areas for re-attachment surgeries.  They
are applied at the end of the attached finger, arm, etc.  To stimulate
circulation to the tissues. They have anesthetic syliva and anti-coagulate
enzymes in same.  They have made success rates climb pretty high since their
use.  Not likely to be mainstream or found prescribed at the local pharmacy
any time soon, but they are making a comeback for some applications.
>
> niccolo difrancesco