Lead

[Robin Coventry]

Julie, where did you read about Sunflowers loving to suck up lead? I know some folks that could use that information and would like to present them with something other than someone once told me…

Robin
From: minutus@yahoogroups.com [mailto:minutus@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of JULIE GRIFFITHS
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 8:49 AM
To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Minutus] Lead/Alzheimer's patient with broken hip/health failing
It would surprise me to find any uncontaminated soil anywhere. Lead just
dropped everywhere. The trick is to alkalize the soil in which plants
are grown but unfortunately not all plants can tolerate such conditions
or so I am told... The plants that can tolerate, suck up the alkaline
and they then tend LESS to take up heavy metals like 'lead'.

OR!!! you can de-lead the soil if that's the major concern by first
planting sunflowers. They love to suck up lead:-)) The studies I have
read have put me completely off sunflowers:-((

Wikipedia has a list of 'hyperaccumulators' (just type in
hyperaccumulator). Can't vouch for the source....Ferns will accumulate
arsenic in the house. Ferns were very popular in the Victorians era.

Probably homeopathy can promote the de-leading process also.

Julie

Dale Moss schrieb:

[Tanya Marquette]

Robin,
I am interested in this, too, so did my own google search.
Here is a link to a Harvard study that is interesting:
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/research/pub ... nology.pdf
see what you think of it, or do your own internet search
tanya

[Robin Coventry]

Great article Tanya. thanks
From: minutus@yahoogroups.com [mailto:minutus@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of tamarque@earthlink.net
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 6:57 PM
To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Minutus] Lead
Robin,
I am interested in this, too, so did my own google search.

Here is a link to a Harvard study that is interesting:
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/research/pub ... nology.pdf
see what you think of it, or do your own internet search
tanya

[JULIE GRIFFITHS]

These may be useful although I don't think they are the original studies I first saw (I downloaded hundreds of files on lead:-)) so my memory is a little hazy.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17966853

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15663304

Julie
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From: Robin Coventry
To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, 22 March, 2010 21:45:24
Subject: RE: [Minutus] Lead
Julie, where did you read about Sunflowers loving to suck up lead? I know some folks that could use that information and would like to present them with something other than someone once told me…

Robin
From: minutus@yahoogroups .com [mailto:minutus@ yahoogroups. com] On Behalf Of JULIE GRIFFITHS
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 8:49 AM
To: minutus@yahoogroups .com
Subject: Re: [Minutus] Lead/Alzheimer' s patient with broken hip/health failing
It would surprise me to find any uncontaminated soil anywhere. Lead just
dropped everywhere. The trick is to alkalize the soil in which plants
are grown but unfortunately not all plants can tolerate such conditions
or so I am told... The plants that can tolerate, suck up the alkaline
and they then tend LESS to take up heavy metals like 'lead'.

OR!!! you can de-lead the soil if that's the major concern by first
planting sunflowers. They love to suck up lead:-)) The studies I have
read have put me completely off sunflowers:- ((

Wikipedia has a list of 'hyperaccumulators' (just type in
hyperaccumulator) . Can't vouch for the source....Ferns will accumulate
arsenic in the house. Ferns were very popular in the Victorians era.

Probably homeopathy can promote the de-leading process also.

Julie

Dale Moss schrieb: