Re: .the apricot seeds again/sweet or bitter

[Guest guest]

Almonds are picked, shelled, packaged and sold. Some are not

as sweet as others (which you call bitter) but they are

not ''treated'' to take out the cynide. The fact of the matter is

that what is actually happening is selective breeding of plants to

make them sweeter and more sugary all the time. This happens all over

the world. You can go out in the fields and forests of Southeast Asia

and find bitter lemons , limes , pomagrantes and various other fruits

but only sweet ones in the market places. This is simply selective

breeding and nothing is done to take out the bitterness other than

selective breeding. I don't mean genetic engineering either, I mean

selective breeding. Almonds are not treated to remove cyanide. I

don't think such a process even exists.

BOB

> From: TVA12082208@a...

> Date sent: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 16:51:17 EDT

> Subject: Re: Re: .the apricot seeds

again/sweet or bitter

> > Drop dead from Almonds? Who the heck has been filling your head

> > with that mush? Almonds are sold here in the supermarket in 1

kilo

> > bags and there is no warning on the label. Who ever told you that

you

> > die from eating almonds? Over here we eat almonds all the time

and

> > lots of them.

>

> Hi,

> the almonds you eat are not bitter in taste but sweet. They

are treated to

> remove the cyanide. The " other " natural almonds are bitter in

taste, which is the

> cyanide. Good body cells can break down small amounts of cyanide,

whereas cancer cells

> can not. To get the taste, get a peach seed and break open the seed

to get the kernel,

> taste that, it will be bitter.

> Never rely on just one treatment, rather look for synergistic

approaches like the

> one below.

>

> moonbeam

>

>

[Guest guest]

Whatever floats your boat is fine with me Katherina. I do

disagree with you in principle but yes of course if you are going to

use a plant for medicinal purposes then it is to your benefit to find

out how to do so and not just start eating them, but that applies to

very few medicinal plants. It's conceivable that someone would be

immune to the strong burning taste of Garlic and be able to eat a

kilo at one sitting , but I would not advice doing so.

In Chinese medicine , most things that are purported to have

anti-cancer properties are bitter in taste. It is difficult to find

bitter plants, vegetables and sour fruits these days as in most cases

the bitterness has been breed out of them by selective breeding. I've

eaten a lot of wild plants , fruits and vegetables in Southeast Asia

and they taste nothing at all like the plants , vegetables and fruits

one buys in the market place or a supermarket here. In fact many of

the plants , vegetables and fruits I now purchase here in the

supermarket bear no resemblance to the taste of the same plants and

fruits of my youth. This has all been due to selective breeding and

control the the seed supply by large agricultural/chemical firms like

Monsanto and Archer s Midlands who actually own worldwide

supplies of seed for various crops. I've even encountered a variety

of bitter tomato which I once ate in Laos. I understand that people

would not enjoy such a tomato in their salad but I was told

that they liked it and it had medicinal qualities. Unlike the Chinese

who use herbs and medicinal plants only when they are sick, many

Thais, Laos, and Cambodians eat medicinal plants as part of thier

daily diet. The thinking being that if it's good for you when you are

sick, then it's good for you to eat all the time. This is a severe

departure from western thought but understand that Laos has the

lowest rate of breast cancer in the world and Thailand has the lowest

rates of all cancers overall for all kinds of cancers in the world.

Which should tell any American or European with half a brain that

they have more to teach us about plants and medicines than we have to

teach them. We are good at high tech solutions to problems but

virtually nothing we produce cures any of the major degenerative

diseases, i'ts all pallative treatment of symptoms. They don't get

these diseases and it's our own prejudices that prevent us from

realizing that the solutions to these problems may be far more simple

than one would otherwise believe.

Unlike synthetic drugs and antibiotics, one does not build up a

resistance to medicinal plants. Unlike synthetic drugs, plants are

constantly evolving themselves to better protect themselves (and by

eating them you too) from disease and ill health. Katherina , I lived

on a very large farm when I was a boy (not my own) and I do know

quite a bit of what I am writing about here. It never ceases to amaze

me what some people think who have been urban dwellers and never

lived on a farm.

Today most onions you purchase in the supermarket here will not

make your eyes tear with water when you peel them and in fact taste

sweet when you eat one. In fact when I was a boy you could not eat

one because it would burn your mouth. Some would say that is because

I was a boy then and now that i've reached middle age my senses have

dulled. Well, last year I ate an Onion in Thailand that burned my

mouth and was not sweet at all. It tasted just like onnions tasted 40

years ago. Now onions are sweet because they have been slectivly bred

to be sweet . That of course means that if their medicinal value was

in their quality to burn your mouth then that quality probably no

longer exists. That is something to think about.

Bitter almonds still exist but no one would sell them in a

supermarket because that variety is bitter and who would buy them?

They still exist however and you can obtain them. If you are ill and

want to use them for medicinal reasons then all you have to do is

read about them on the internet and you can find out easily how to

eat them for those purposes. I actually like bitter tasting things so

I have no problem with the taste , but that is me.

BOB

> In einer eMail vom 07.06.03 08:20:01 (MEZ) - Mitteleurop.

Sommerzeit schreibt

> wiech89@y...:

>

>

> >

> >

> > Thank you Katharina , I will and they taste sooooo good

too!

> > One thing I think I should add to my previous comments. In

regards to

> > apricot seeds we had two choices, have the product available and

just

> > not say anything about them (their nutritional value ''must'' be

> > labelled on the bag like any other food), or, demand to be able

to

> > put a statement on their medical use on the bag and not have them

at

> > all because the government would confiscate them. We chose to

> > compromise and have them around and available as food, which they

> > really are anyway.

> >

> >

>

> Dear BOB,

>

> Firstly, I asked you to please differentiate between bitter and

sweet almonds

> (same with apricot seeds).

> Second, a bitter almond or bitter apricot seed does not ask what

kind of sick

> insurance you have, or if you have one at all. That is beside the

point. I

> call it fuming fog.

> The bitter almonds or apricot seeds enter your body and have an

effect.

>

> We are talking about the effect the agents in the nutrition bring

about.

> Nutrional things can act as medicine. Agreed?

>

> In taking medicine, one has to follow a prescription, not just a

recipe,

> because medicine can do harm, if overdosed.

>

> That is why a customer needs the information about bitter almonds

and bitter

> apricot seeds.

>

> One example:

> I have here the package of fifty grams of bitter almonds , price

one dollar,

> from a special store, right by my computer. The label says:

> " Caution! Bitter almonds contain prussic acid. Intake of larger

quantities

> are dangerous to life! Not for eating raw.

> Information on bitter almonds: Traditional baking ingredient, use

only for

> cooking and baking, store out of reach of children. "

>

> Bitter almonds are only available around christmas time, here. They

have

> disappeared from the normal food stores for quite a few years now,

because

> poisoning accidents with bitter almonds were deadly for children .

>

> I already reported the accident with the seven year old American

child in a

> community near by, who swallowed a whole nutmeg. The child died of

the prussic

> acid in the nutmeg.

>

> A whole family was wiped off the landscape, because they eat a

hazelnutcake

> together, that had been in the freezer. Few know that it is not

recommendable

> to freeze nutcakes, as in the freezing process they develop a

content of

> prussic acid so high it can be deadly.

>

> If not deadly, prussic acid prevents transport of oxygen to the

brain. There

> is a danger of brain damage for survivors.

>

> The Hunza people in the Himalaya chop off altogether their apricot

trees with

> bitter seeds. The healing and prevention of cancer is done by the

oil of

> SWEET apricot seeds only. (von Buttlar, 1981)

>

> Two bitter almonds per day are enough to prevent cancer.

>

> Dosis facit venenum.

>

> BOB, I hope you can live well with my answer.

>

> The best to you and all,

> Katharina

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Whatever floats your boat is fine with me Katherina. I do

disagree with you in principle but yes of course if you are going to

use a plant for medicinal purposes then it is to your benefit to find

out how to do so and not just start eating them, but that applies to

very few medicinal plants. It's conceivable that someone would be

immune to the strong burning taste of Garlic and be able to eat a

kilo at one sitting , but I would not advice doing so.

In Chinese medicine , most things that are purported to have

anti-cancer properties are bitter in taste. It is difficult to find

bitter plants, vegetables and sour fruits these days as in most cases

the bitterness has been breed out of them by selective breeding. I've

eaten a lot of wild plants , fruits and vegetables in Southeast Asia

and they taste nothing at all like the plants , vegetables and fruits

one buys in the market place or a supermarket here. In fact many of

the plants , vegetables and fruits I now purchase here in the

supermarket bear no resemblance to the taste of the same plants and

fruits of my youth. This has all been due to selective breeding and

control the the seed supply by large agricultural/chemical firms like

Monsanto and Archer s Midlands who actually own worldwide

supplies of seed for various crops. I've even encountered a variety

of bitter tomato which I once ate in Laos. I understand that people

would not enjoy such a tomato in their salad but I was told

that they liked it and it had medicinal qualities. Unlike the Chinese

who use herbs and medicinal plants only when they are sick, many

Thais, Laos, and Cambodians eat medicinal plants as part of thier

daily diet. The thinking being that if it's good for you when you are

sick, then it's good for you to eat all the time. This is a severe

departure from western thought but understand that Laos has the

lowest rate of breast cancer in the world and Thailand has the lowest

rates of all cancers overall for all kinds of cancers in the world.

Which should tell any American or European with half a brain that

they have more to teach us about plants and medicines than we have to

teach them. We are good at high tech solutions to problems but

virtually nothing we produce cures any of the major degenerative

diseases, i'ts all pallative treatment of symptoms. They don't get

these diseases and it's our own prejudices that prevent us from

realizing that the solutions to these problems may be far more simple

than one would otherwise believe.

Unlike synthetic drugs and antibiotics, one does not build up a

resistance to medicinal plants. Unlike synthetic drugs, plants are

constantly evolving themselves to better protect themselves (and by

eating them you too) from disease and ill health. Katherina , I lived

on a very large farm when I was a boy (not my own) and I do know

quite a bit of what I am writing about here. It never ceases to amaze

me what some people think who have been urban dwellers and never

lived on a farm.

Today most onions you purchase in the supermarket here will not

make your eyes tear with water when you peel them and in fact taste

sweet when you eat one. In fact when I was a boy you could not eat

one because it would burn your mouth. Some would say that is because

I was a boy then and now that i've reached middle age my senses have

dulled. Well, last year I ate an Onion in Thailand that burned my

mouth and was not sweet at all. It tasted just like onnions tasted 40

years ago. Now onions are sweet because they have been slectivly bred

to be sweet . That of course means that if their medicinal value was

in their quality to burn your mouth then that quality probably no

longer exists. That is something to think about.

Bitter almonds still exist but no one would sell them in a

supermarket because that variety is bitter and who would buy them?

They still exist however and you can obtain them. If you are ill and

want to use them for medicinal reasons then all you have to do is

read about them on the internet and you can find out easily how to

eat them for those purposes. I actually like bitter tasting things so

I have no problem with the taste , but that is me.

BOB

> In einer eMail vom 07.06.03 08:20:01 (MEZ) - Mitteleurop.

Sommerzeit schreibt

> wiech89@y...:

>

>

> >

> >

> > Thank you Katharina , I will and they taste sooooo good

too!

> > One thing I think I should add to my previous comments. In

regards to

> > apricot seeds we had two choices, have the product available and

just

> > not say anything about them (their nutritional value ''must'' be

> > labelled on the bag like any other food), or, demand to be able

to

> > put a statement on their medical use on the bag and not have them

at

> > all because the government would confiscate them. We chose to

> > compromise and have them around and available as food, which they

> > really are anyway.

> >

> >

>

> Dear BOB,

>

> Firstly, I asked you to please differentiate between bitter and

sweet almonds

> (same with apricot seeds).

> Second, a bitter almond or bitter apricot seed does not ask what

kind of sick

> insurance you have, or if you have one at all. That is beside the

point. I

> call it fuming fog.

> The bitter almonds or apricot seeds enter your body and have an

effect.

>

> We are talking about the effect the agents in the nutrition bring

about.

> Nutrional things can act as medicine. Agreed?

>

> In taking medicine, one has to follow a prescription, not just a

recipe,

> because medicine can do harm, if overdosed.

>

> That is why a customer needs the information about bitter almonds

and bitter

> apricot seeds.

>

> One example:

> I have here the package of fifty grams of bitter almonds , price

one dollar,

> from a special store, right by my computer. The label says:

> " Caution! Bitter almonds contain prussic acid. Intake of larger

quantities

> are dangerous to life! Not for eating raw.

> Information on bitter almonds: Traditional baking ingredient, use

only for

> cooking and baking, store out of reach of children. "

>

> Bitter almonds are only available around christmas time, here. They

have

> disappeared from the normal food stores for quite a few years now,

because

> poisoning accidents with bitter almonds were deadly for children .

>

> I already reported the accident with the seven year old American

child in a

> community near by, who swallowed a whole nutmeg. The child died of

the prussic

> acid in the nutmeg.

>

> A whole family was wiped off the landscape, because they eat a

hazelnutcake

> together, that had been in the freezer. Few know that it is not

recommendable

> to freeze nutcakes, as in the freezing process they develop a

content of

> prussic acid so high it can be deadly.

>

> If not deadly, prussic acid prevents transport of oxygen to the

brain. There

> is a danger of brain damage for survivors.

>

> The Hunza people in the Himalaya chop off altogether their apricot

trees with

> bitter seeds. The healing and prevention of cancer is done by the

oil of

> SWEET apricot seeds only. (von Buttlar, 1981)

>

> Two bitter almonds per day are enough to prevent cancer.

>

> Dosis facit venenum.

>

> BOB, I hope you can live well with my answer.

>

> The best to you and all,

> Katharina

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

BOB,

This was very interesting...thanks for sharing...

Another Bob...

Re: .the apricot seeds again/sweet or bitter

> Whatever floats your boat is fine with me Katherina. I do

> disagree with you in principle but yes of course if you are going to

> use a plant for medicinal purposes then it is to your benefit to find

> out how to do so and not just start eating them, but that applies to

> very few medicinal plants. It's conceivable that someone would be

> immune to the strong burning taste of Garlic and be able to eat a

> kilo at one sitting , but I would not advice doing so.

>

> In Chinese medicine , most things that are purported to have

> anti-cancer properties are bitter in taste. It is difficult to find

> bitter plants, vegetables and sour fruits these days as in most cases

> the bitterness has been breed out of them by selective breeding. I've

> eaten a lot of wild plants , fruits and vegetables in Southeast Asia

> and they taste nothing at all like the plants , vegetables and fruits

> one buys in the market place or a supermarket here. In fact many of

> the plants , vegetables and fruits I now purchase here in the

> supermarket bear no resemblance to the taste of the same plants and

> fruits of my youth. This has all been due to selective breeding and

> control the the seed supply by large agricultural/chemical firms like

> Monsanto and Archer s Midlands who actually own worldwide

> supplies of seed for various crops. I've even encountered a variety

> of bitter tomato which I once ate in Laos. I understand that people

> would not enjoy such a tomato in their salad but I was told

> that they liked it and it had medicinal qualities. Unlike the Chinese

> who use herbs and medicinal plants only when they are sick, many

> Thais, Laos, and Cambodians eat medicinal plants as part of thier

> daily diet. The thinking being that if it's good for you when you are

> sick, then it's good for you to eat all the time. This is a severe

> departure from western thought but understand that Laos has the

> lowest rate of breast cancer in the world and Thailand has the lowest

> rates of all cancers overall for all kinds of cancers in the world.

> Which should tell any American or European with half a brain that

> they have more to teach us about plants and medicines than we have to

> teach them. We are good at high tech solutions to problems but

> virtually nothing we produce cures any of the major degenerative

> diseases, i'ts all pallative treatment of symptoms. They don't get

> these diseases and it's our own prejudices that prevent us from

> realizing that the solutions to these problems may be far more simple

> than one would otherwise believe.

>

> Unlike synthetic drugs and antibiotics, one does not build up a

> resistance to medicinal plants. Unlike synthetic drugs, plants are

> constantly evolving themselves to better protect themselves (and by

> eating them you too) from disease and ill health. Katherina , I lived

> on a very large farm when I was a boy (not my own) and I do know

> quite a bit of what I am writing about here. It never ceases to amaze

> me what some people think who have been urban dwellers and never

> lived on a farm.

>

> Today most onions you purchase in the supermarket here will not

> make your eyes tear with water when you peel them and in fact taste

> sweet when you eat one. In fact when I was a boy you could not eat

> one because it would burn your mouth. Some would say that is because

> I was a boy then and now that i've reached middle age my senses have

> dulled. Well, last year I ate an Onion in Thailand that burned my

> mouth and was not sweet at all. It tasted just like onnions tasted 40

> years ago. Now onions are sweet because they have been slectivly bred

> to be sweet . That of course means that if their medicinal value was

> in their quality to burn your mouth then that quality probably no

> longer exists. That is something to think about.

>

> Bitter almonds still exist but no one would sell them in a

> supermarket because that variety is bitter and who would buy them?

> They still exist however and you can obtain them. If you are ill and

> want to use them for medicinal reasons then all you have to do is

> read about them on the internet and you can find out easily how to

> eat them for those purposes. I actually like bitter tasting things so

> I have no problem with the taste , but that is me.

>

>

> BOB

>

>

> > In einer eMail vom 07.06.03 08:20:01 (MEZ) - Mitteleurop.

> Sommerzeit schreibt

> > wiech89@y...:

> >

> >

> > >

> > >

> > > Thank you Katharina , I will and they taste sooooo good

> too!

> > > One thing I think I should add to my previous comments. In

> regards to

> > > apricot seeds we had two choices, have the product available and

> just

> > > not say anything about them (their nutritional value ''must'' be

> > > labelled on the bag like any other food), or, demand to be able

> to

> > > put a statement on their medical use on the bag and not have them

> at

> > > all because the government would confiscate them. We chose to

> > > compromise and have them around and available as food, which they

> > > really are anyway.

> > >

> > >

> >

> > Dear BOB,

> >

> > Firstly, I asked you to please differentiate between bitter and

> sweet almonds

> > (same with apricot seeds).

> > Second, a bitter almond or bitter apricot seed does not ask what

> kind of sick

> > insurance you have, or if you have one at all. That is beside the

> point. I

> > call it fuming fog.

> > The bitter almonds or apricot seeds enter your body and have an

> effect.

> >

> > We are talking about the effect the agents in the nutrition bring

> about.

> > Nutrional things can act as medicine. Agreed?

> >

> > In taking medicine, one has to follow a prescription, not just a

> recipe,

> > because medicine can do harm, if overdosed.

> >

> > That is why a customer needs the information about bitter almonds

> and bitter

> > apricot seeds.

> >

> > One example:

> > I have here the package of fifty grams of bitter almonds , price

> one dollar,

> > from a special store, right by my computer. The label says:

> > " Caution! Bitter almonds contain prussic acid. Intake of larger

> quantities

> > are dangerous to life! Not for eating raw.

> > Information on bitter almonds: Traditional baking ingredient, use

> only for

> > cooking and baking, store out of reach of children. "

> >

> > Bitter almonds are only available around christmas time, here. They

> have

> > disappeared from the normal food stores for quite a few years now,

> because

> > poisoning accidents with bitter almonds were deadly for children .

> >

> > I already reported the accident with the seven year old American

> child in a

> > community near by, who swallowed a whole nutmeg. The child died of

> the prussic

> > acid in the nutmeg.

> >

> > A whole family was wiped off the landscape, because they eat a

> hazelnutcake

> > together, that had been in the freezer. Few know that it is not

> recommendable

> > to freeze nutcakes, as in the freezing process they develop a

> content of

> > prussic acid so high it can be deadly.

> >

> > If not deadly, prussic acid prevents transport of oxygen to the

> brain. There

> > is a danger of brain damage for survivors.

> >

> > The Hunza people in the Himalaya chop off altogether their apricot

> trees with

> > bitter seeds. The healing and prevention of cancer is done by the

> oil of

> > SWEET apricot seeds only. (von Buttlar, 1981)

> >

> > Two bitter almonds per day are enough to prevent cancer.

> >

> > Dosis facit venenum.

> >

> > BOB, I hope you can live well with my answer.

> >

> > The best to you and all,

> > Katharina

> >

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

BOB,

This was very interesting...thanks for sharing...

Another Bob...

Re: .the apricot seeds again/sweet or bitter

> Whatever floats your boat is fine with me Katherina. I do

> disagree with you in principle but yes of course if you are going to

> use a plant for medicinal purposes then it is to your benefit to find

> out how to do so and not just start eating them, but that applies to

> very few medicinal plants. It's conceivable that someone would be

> immune to the strong burning taste of Garlic and be able to eat a

> kilo at one sitting , but I would not advice doing so.

>

> In Chinese medicine , most things that are purported to have

> anti-cancer properties are bitter in taste. It is difficult to find

> bitter plants, vegetables and sour fruits these days as in most cases

> the bitterness has been breed out of them by selective breeding. I've

> eaten a lot of wild plants , fruits and vegetables in Southeast Asia

> and they taste nothing at all like the plants , vegetables and fruits

> one buys in the market place or a supermarket here. In fact many of

> the plants , vegetables and fruits I now purchase here in the

> supermarket bear no resemblance to the taste of the same plants and

> fruits of my youth. This has all been due to selective breeding and

> control the the seed supply by large agricultural/chemical firms like

> Monsanto and Archer s Midlands who actually own worldwide

> supplies of seed for various crops. I've even encountered a variety

> of bitter tomato which I once ate in Laos. I understand that people

> would not enjoy such a tomato in their salad but I was told

> that they liked it and it had medicinal qualities. Unlike the Chinese

> who use herbs and medicinal plants only when they are sick, many

> Thais, Laos, and Cambodians eat medicinal plants as part of thier

> daily diet. The thinking being that if it's good for you when you are

> sick, then it's good for you to eat all the time. This is a severe

> departure from western thought but understand that Laos has the

> lowest rate of breast cancer in the world and Thailand has the lowest

> rates of all cancers overall for all kinds of cancers in the world.

> Which should tell any American or European with half a brain that

> they have more to teach us about plants and medicines than we have to

> teach them. We are good at high tech solutions to problems but

> virtually nothing we produce cures any of the major degenerative

> diseases, i'ts all pallative treatment of symptoms. They don't get

> these diseases and it's our own prejudices that prevent us from

> realizing that the solutions to these problems may be far more simple

> than one would otherwise believe.

>

> Unlike synthetic drugs and antibiotics, one does not build up a

> resistance to medicinal plants. Unlike synthetic drugs, plants are

> constantly evolving themselves to better protect themselves (and by

> eating them you too) from disease and ill health. Katherina , I lived

> on a very large farm when I was a boy (not my own) and I do know

> quite a bit of what I am writing about here. It never ceases to amaze

> me what some people think who have been urban dwellers and never

> lived on a farm.

>

> Today most onions you purchase in the supermarket here will not

> make your eyes tear with water when you peel them and in fact taste

> sweet when you eat one. In fact when I was a boy you could not eat

> one because it would burn your mouth. Some would say that is because

> I was a boy then and now that i've reached middle age my senses have

> dulled. Well, last year I ate an Onion in Thailand that burned my

> mouth and was not sweet at all. It tasted just like onnions tasted 40

> years ago. Now onions are sweet because they have been slectivly bred

> to be sweet . That of course means that if their medicinal value was

> in their quality to burn your mouth then that quality probably no

> longer exists. That is something to think about.

>

> Bitter almonds still exist but no one would sell them in a

> supermarket because that variety is bitter and who would buy them?

> They still exist however and you can obtain them. If you are ill and

> want to use them for medicinal reasons then all you have to do is

> read about them on the internet and you can find out easily how to

> eat them for those purposes. I actually like bitter tasting things so

> I have no problem with the taste , but that is me.

>

>

> BOB

>

>

> > In einer eMail vom 07.06.03 08:20:01 (MEZ) - Mitteleurop.

> Sommerzeit schreibt

> > wiech89@y...:

> >

> >

> > >

> > >

> > > Thank you Katharina , I will and they taste sooooo good

> too!

> > > One thing I think I should add to my previous comments. In

> regards to

> > > apricot seeds we had two choices, have the product available and

> just

> > > not say anything about them (their nutritional value ''must'' be

> > > labelled on the bag like any other food), or, demand to be able

> to

> > > put a statement on their medical use on the bag and not have them

> at

> > > all because the government would confiscate them. We chose to

> > > compromise and have them around and available as food, which they

> > > really are anyway.

> > >

> > >

> >

> > Dear BOB,

> >

> > Firstly, I asked you to please differentiate between bitter and

> sweet almonds

> > (same with apricot seeds).

> > Second, a bitter almond or bitter apricot seed does not ask what

> kind of sick

> > insurance you have, or if you have one at all. That is beside the

> point. I

> > call it fuming fog.

> > The bitter almonds or apricot seeds enter your body and have an

> effect.

> >

> > We are talking about the effect the agents in the nutrition bring

> about.

> > Nutrional things can act as medicine. Agreed?

> >

> > In taking medicine, one has to follow a prescription, not just a

> recipe,

> > because medicine can do harm, if overdosed.

> >

> > That is why a customer needs the information about bitter almonds

> and bitter

> > apricot seeds.

> >

> > One example:

> > I have here the package of fifty grams of bitter almonds , price

> one dollar,

> > from a special store, right by my computer. The label says:

> > " Caution! Bitter almonds contain prussic acid. Intake of larger

> quantities

> > are dangerous to life! Not for eating raw.

> > Information on bitter almonds: Traditional baking ingredient, use

> only for

> > cooking and baking, store out of reach of children. "

> >

> > Bitter almonds are only available around christmas time, here. They

> have

> > disappeared from the normal food stores for quite a few years now,

> because

> > poisoning accidents with bitter almonds were deadly for children .

> >

> > I already reported the accident with the seven year old American

> child in a

> > community near by, who swallowed a whole nutmeg. The child died of

> the prussic

> > acid in the nutmeg.

> >

> > A whole family was wiped off the landscape, because they eat a

> hazelnutcake

> > together, that had been in the freezer. Few know that it is not

> recommendable

> > to freeze nutcakes, as in the freezing process they develop a

> content of

> > prussic acid so high it can be deadly.

> >

> > If not deadly, prussic acid prevents transport of oxygen to the

> brain. There

> > is a danger of brain damage for survivors.

> >

> > The Hunza people in the Himalaya chop off altogether their apricot

> trees with

> > bitter seeds. The healing and prevention of cancer is done by the

> oil of

> > SWEET apricot seeds only. (von Buttlar, 1981)

> >

> > Two bitter almonds per day are enough to prevent cancer.

> >

> > Dosis facit venenum.

> >

> > BOB, I hope you can live well with my answer.

> >

> > The best to you and all,

> > Katharina

> >

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

> > From: TVA12082208@a...

> > Date sent: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 16:51:17 EDT

> > Subject: Re: Re: .the apricot seeds

> again/sweet or bitter

> > > Drop dead from Almonds? Who the heck has been filling your head

> > > with that mush? Almonds are sold here in the supermarket in 1

> kilo

> > > bags and there is no warning on the label. Who ever told you

that

> you

> > > die from eating almonds? Over here we eat almonds all the time

> and

> > > lots of them.

> >

> > Hi,

> > the almonds you eat are not bitter in taste but sweet. They

> are treated to

> > remove the cyanide. The " other " natural almonds are bitter in

> taste, which is the

> > cyanide. Good body cells can break down small amounts of cyanide,

> whereas cancer cells

> > can not. To get the taste, get a peach seed and break open the

seed

> to get the kernel,

> > taste that, it will be bitter.

> > Never rely on just one treatment, rather look for synergistic

> approaches like the

> > one below.

> >

> > moonbeam

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

> > From: TVA12082208@a...

> > Date sent: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 16:51:17 EDT

> > Subject: Re: Re: .the apricot seeds

> again/sweet or bitter

> > > Drop dead from Almonds? Who the heck has been filling your head

> > > with that mush? Almonds are sold here in the supermarket in 1

> kilo

> > > bags and there is no warning on the label. Who ever told you

that

> you

> > > die from eating almonds? Over here we eat almonds all the time

> and

> > > lots of them.

> >

> > Hi,

> > the almonds you eat are not bitter in taste but sweet. They

> are treated to

> > remove the cyanide. The " other " natural almonds are bitter in

> taste, which is the

> > cyanide. Good body cells can break down small amounts of cyanide,

> whereas cancer cells

> > can not. To get the taste, get a peach seed and break open the

seed

> to get the kernel,

> > taste that, it will be bitter.

> > Never rely on just one treatment, rather look for synergistic

> approaches like the

> > one below.

> >

> > moonbeam

> >

> >