[LMB] Question about spaz-ing - Re: OT: if civilization fell

Mark Allums mark at allums.com
Wed Feb 6 01:37:27 GMT 2008


Patricia A. Swan wrote:
  It turns out that I had the problems stop when I refused
> to eat raw tomatoes anymore, and only consumed processed tomato 
> products like canned juice, and processed tomato-based stuff 
> like ketchup and spaghetti sauce.  My pain levels, spasming, and 
> stiffness got better this last year when I completely eliminated 
> nightshade-family foods from my diet,

When you say "spasming", what exactly do you mean?  I have spasms in my 
digestive tract, and oddly, it's the deadly nightshade (alkaloids of 
belladonna*) that I use to treat it.

--MArk allums


* atropine, scopolamine, and hyoscyamine.


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