> One link in your message caught my eye:

>> http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/1/19/herb-triggers-cancer-cell-death.aspx

> I'd take anything from his website with a grain of salt.

Your loss.
I subscribe to his email newsletter, and frequently get 
close to unsubscribing.
Much of what he says is self promotion and much is wrapped 
in hype and delusion or just plain lies.

BUT he is actually interested in the area of health and is 
an avid acquirer and disseminator of related material - he 
acts as a concentrated raw feedstock source from which one 
may more easily mine what gems may pass by.

In the current instance, his newsletter was the source of my 
original information on the subject and it was of enough 
interest (unlike much else he sends) that a quick gargoyling 
showed that serious research is being done both on the basic 
herb which he cites as the source AND of the compound 
identified as the active agent in this case.

I now know that a subset of flavenoids have a selective 
anti-cancer action in some cases and that some of them also 
have neuroprotective capabilities and that some Chinese 
herbal medicines are one source of some of these. I also 
know that none of this information may ever be of direct use 
to me.

'Grain of salting' all his material would mean I would have 
missed that information. While I will quite possibly never 
benefit from this blob of information directly it does add 
to my overall knowledge base and allows me to both further 
filter and to extend my mental "heap". Every now and then 
this proves useful ;-).

So, roll on Mercola and the like, concentrating the sludge 
for gems for me, to be tucked away for future reference :-)


        Russell 

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