[Sca-cooks] Which ingredients to avoid? [Was: Rue Substitute?]

[Martin G. Diehl]

Greetings, 

Do we have a list of the food ingredients that we must 
not use?  

Such a list should include both those ingredients that we 
know (or feel) could evoke safety issues as well as those 
which are prohibited by law or regulation.  

Here are some ingredients I would not use ... 

Rue: 

	Oil of rue is an abortifacent.  

wormwood: 

	Especially thujone, a terpene found in wormwood, 
	which was responsible for absinthe's secondary 
	effects.  

St. John's Wort: 

	An anti depressant ... but you wouldn't want to 
	give it to someone suffering from bipolar disorder 
	and induce a manic episode.  

	Reported to work against the immune suppressant 
	drug cyclosporin, which resulted in a transplant 
	being rejected.  

... and there are certainly many, many more.  

I realize any such list will be controversial.  

I am not trying to say that an individual should or should 
not make a personal decision to use these for medicinal 
effect ... 

My point is that we, both as individuals and as a group, 
must not give anyone an ingredient that might have an 
unexpected medicinal effect.  

I am, 
Lord Vincenzo Martino Mazza, 
In Service to the Dream

-- 
Martin G. Diehl

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