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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: General Discussion => Topic started by: kristina on April 26, 2009, 02:37:57 PM

Title: Golden Rod (Solidago virga-aurea)
Post by: kristina on April 26, 2009, 02:37:57 PM

Has anyone tried Golden Rod (Solidago virga-aurea) teas? Thanks.

Title: Re: Golden Rod (Solidago virga-aurea)
Post by: okarol on April 26, 2009, 09:55:14 PM

Interesting. Many websites claim the tea is good for kidney stones or inflammations.
Even this one http://www.mdidea.com/products/new/new044paper.html but it says at the end:
Pregnant and breastfeeding women as well as people with impaired heart or kidney function should not take goldenrod.
 ::)

Title: Re: Golden Rod (Solidago virga-aurea)
Post by: kristina on April 27, 2009, 01:15:20 AM

Thank you for this information, it just confirms how
careful we have to be. It is great that I can put
my questions here! Thanks again.

Title: Re: Golden Rod (Solidago virga-aurea)
Post by: hurlock1 on April 27, 2009, 09:05:20 AM

I lived in an area that goldenrod grew profuslrey (sp?) I was highly allergic to it.  I couldn't breath. I feel that anything that made me that sick, couldn't be that couldn't be that good for anyone. I know that it's allergies, and that not everyone is alergic. But, if it were really were good for anything, it would be on every grocery and drugstore shelf.

Title: Re: Golden Rod (Solidago virga-aurea)
Post by: Zach on April 27, 2009, 10:19:08 AM

Thomas Alva Edison was able to make rubber from the Goldenrod plant.

8)

Title: Re: Golden Rod (Solidago virga-aurea)
Post by: hurlock1 on April 27, 2009, 11:16:46 AM

rubbers?

Title: Re: Golden Rod (Solidago virga-aurea)
Post by: rocker on April 27, 2009, 04:59:57 PM

Quote from: hurlock1 on April 27, 2009, 09:05:20 AM

I lived in an area that goldenrod grew profuslrey (sp?) I was highly allergic to it.  I couldn't breath. I feel that anything that made me that sick, couldn't be that couldn't be that good for anyone.

I grew up in South Florida, and Maleluca was the most vile and widely-hated plant in the area.  Horrible smell, horrible allergen, horrible pest in the Everglades....and yet "tea tree oil" is all the rage.

Go figure.    :P