I know a lot of people like to push organic marketing, however, I've used pre-emerge herbicides for years. Discouraging the use of herbicides around the garden is far from "pushing organic gardening". The two issues aren't even related. Herbicides have their role in landscaping, commercial agriculture, and horticulture, no doubt, but the issue with using them around the vegetable garden is the damage to the plants you WANT to grow, not the herbicides themselves. Every year both the tomato and pepper forums are inundated "what is wrong with my plant" posts with pics of plants damaged by herbicide use. And no it is not just from spraying. Herbicide damage can also result from using mulch that has been exposed to it. Dave

We are getting far afield from Andrographis and suggesting people use it for cancer without valid evidence. More than any other bad advice that's appeared in this forum over the many years I've posted, here, inappropriate claims for herbal or other alternative cancer therapy have the capacity to harm people and steer them away from treatments that actually have been shown to work. If I have to see a physician with a serious medical complaint, I want to know that his/her suggested treatments have a sound evidentiary basis. I will not accept them if he/she says "trust me, I'm a doctor". Similarly, people who consult a herbalist with a serious complaint deserve more than to hear "trust me, I'm a herbalist". As for nutrition, physician education in nutrition could probably use improvement. They do however get far more than 24 credit hours in the course of their training (which includes practical exposure to nutrition-related issues during residency, fellowship, clinical practice and continuing medical education, as well as learning about diet-related issues through related courses in biochemistry, human physiology, pharmacology etc. It is also worth noting that even limited coursework based on sound nutritional principles is far better than a slew of courses based on inaccurate nutritional woo. To recap, Andrographis may have valid uses to prevent/treat some complaints including upper respiratory infections. But it is downright irresponsible and dangerous to suggest that it is appropriate to prescribe for cancer, without the person first having consulted a physician to get a proper diagnosis and learn about potentially curative treatment options (and whether any alternative remedies might interact negatively with those treatments).

Hmm... anyone know a good translation site? http://dictionary.reference.com/translate/text.html translates the third post as: I found a hawthorn (Crateagus) with 4 couleurs..les two branches(feuillage) of bottoms are green and the others are 4 couleurs(feuille)(verte, white, pink and red. it is very pretty... I have contaminé(test) other seedlings with an extract to check if that is possible to contaminate other seedlings... That's not very good. http://ets.freetranslation.com/ translates zcabn's reply as: Hello This would not be a grafted variety since the two green branches are in the bottom? I never heard to say that one could "to transfer a mutation" of a plant to another (to provoke a genetic mutation) by a realized treatment from brew of leaves... Although. ..la question appears interesting. Concerning for example the trees tortueux of the forest of Verzy, person so far did not understand why in this forest one found at once beech tortueux (fagus sylvatica var tortuosa) but also chataigniers tortueux and an oak tortueux. It is not impossible that an again misunderstood mechanism allows transferring through the ground a character (Here tortueux) of a plant to the other. In the case of the false one of Verzy, the hypotheses of a mutation caused by a virus or a radiation (falls meteorite) never was proved. Ouch. http://world.altavista.com/ translates the next message: I believe that this idea of Clerc's Office becomes plausible.... but I pause myself the question how one made to have this seedling with as much couleur..peut-to be a dream but... (l'origine) j' have déja observed branches without almost of chlorophyle at the lilac or among young sowings. but they disappeared quickly. my experiment is in function. what j' tested on semis(spores) of fern with completion bruler.. I want to still inoculate in June several shrubs of which apple trees and some seedlings d' hawthorns None of the 3 are that great.

Segrass, congratulations on making it through everything physical and emotional that goes with aggressive treatment for breast cancer. It is worth it. My mother discovered breast cancer when I was 16 (1970) and she lived 12 years with lots of treatment. Treatment is much better now. Celebrate tonight with joy. I am shampooing carpets, cleaning like mad and cooking. Tomorrow I am having the first dinner party in the new kitchen. Actually, I have never given or attended a dinner party. It's nerve-wracking and exciting at the same time. Happy New Year, y'all Judy