agave americana

[Joy Lucas]

I am doing a study on rx that have an affinity to rabies - does anyone know if Agave americana has been proved yet.

Thanks in advance

Joy

http://www.joylucashomeopathy.com
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[Laura Gibson]

Wow! Joy! This would be a fascinating study! Would you please include me on your results! With animals, we fight the rabies miasm continuously.
Thanks for all that you do for homeopathy!
Laura Gibson

Furrst Place K-9 Obedience

www.FurrstPlace.com

[Shannon Nelson]

Oh wow, and this is the new "natural" (unnatural) sweetener on the scene. I had forgotten that it also had that connection to rabies--I look forward to proving information on that one!!

Shannon

[Joy Lucas]

Will do, but will only be a rx affinity list probably.

There are cured cases with this rx but without a proving - yet another one that should be done

However according to Thomas Bradford there is a proving from Hale - New remedies, 2nd edition - need to dig deeper.

Joy

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http://www.streetcollege.co.uk

[Joy Lucas]

learn something new every day - any 'bad' press on this yet

anti scorbutic for sure and I thought the US government were stockpiling this for use against radiation burns or is that one of the other agaves

Joy

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[Judith]

Joy, I found the following:

http://schwabeindia-vol1is1october2010.blogspot.com/

http://schwabeindia-agave.blogspot.com/

HTH, Judith Mateo - Portland OR

[Joy Lucas]

Would give you a kiss if you were right here )

Fantastic, many thanks.

Joy

http://www.joylucashomeopathy.com
http://www.streetcollege.co.uk

[Rochelle Marsden]

Did you want the info from Hale?
Rochelle
AGAVE AMERICANA. (American Aloe.)



This is an evergreen succulent plant, sometimes called the century, and by the natives of Mexico, the Maguey.

It is found growing in Florida, Mexico, and other parts of tropical America.

It hears a strong resemblance to the plants of the genus Aloe, with which it is sometimes confounded.

The root and leaves, when cut, furnish a saccharine juice, which may be converted into syrup and sugar by evaporation, and into a vinous liquor by fermentation.

The native of Mexico manufacture from it their favorite drink-the Pulque-which is capable of causing considerable intoxication.

The juice of the Maguey contains a large amount of vegetable and saccharine matter, and is of itself sufficiently nutritious to sustain a person for several days.

It delights in a dry sandy soil, and can be cultivated where nothing but the cactus will grow.

The cortical portion near the root may be eaten, when cooked by roasting.

The white internal portion is the edible part.

Dr. Perrin has seen muleteers use it for food, and they seem to be very food of it.

He was informed upon good authority that several tribes of Indians in New Mexico make use of it in the same manner.

The juice, when evaporated to the consistence of a soft extract, forms a lather with water, and is sometimes employed as a substitute for soap.

The fresh juice is said to be diuretic, laxative and emmenagogue.

So far, only the juice of the roasted leaves has been used as a remedial, agent.

The tincture of a fresh root prepared from it, may possess valuable medicinal qualities.

The same virtues may exist in the leaves, as it is well known that cooking deprives some plants and roots of their poisonous qualities.



Tincture made by expression and maceration, or by percolation from the fresh leaves and the root.



Lime juice, Lemon juice, Citric acid, Kali chloratum, Natrum muriaticum.



@ Army scurvy, with pale and dejected countenance.

@ Gums swollen, and bleeding, legs covered with dark, purple blotches, swollen, painful, and of stony hardness; pulse small and feeble; appetite poor; bowels constipated.

@ Eleven cases rapidly improved under the use of the Maguey after lime juice and lemon juice had failed.

The fermented juice intoxicates.

Registered Homeopath with The Society of Homeopaths
EFT (Advanced) Practitioner
www.southporthomeopathy.co.uk

[Rochelle Marsden]

From Choudary
AGAVE AMERICANA

It is also called the American Aloe. The tincture is prepared from fresh chopped leaves.

This remedy has not been given a thorough scientific proving" but as it is reputed to have a great curative value in hydrophobia, it will not do to leave it out of our Materia Medica.

We have a nice instance of a cure of hydrophobia with Agave reported in " The Homeopathic Recorder." A boy developed symptoms of hydrophobia four months after the bite.

Quarrelsomeness, inability to swallow, desire to bite anybody near about, were symptoms that were thoroughly relieved by the boy partaking in crude juice of the plant that was simply thrown at him.

Since then it has been used in similar instances on similar symptoms and numerous cures have been recorded as effected by Agave.

　

Registered Homeopath with The Society of Homeopaths
EFT (Advanced) Practitioner
www.southporthomeopathy.co.uk

[Tanya Marquette]

agave have been banned in the US, UK and Canada in foods due to promoting low blood sugar in diabetes.
the study was stopped. the article that i read gave no specific information other than to note that it caused bad side
effects and the agencies in all 3 countries banned it from foods.
apparently it can cause low metabolic syndrome/hypoglycemia
tanya