EXTREME care with cryptolepis

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http://lib.bioinfo.pl/pmid:1484884

http://toxsci.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/70/2/245

Just eyeballed?above and other?articles on using cryptolepis as an

anticholnergic agent. Specifically they found it to be anti muscarinic...i.e.

blocks certain parasympathetic actions at the neuro effector junction. This

means it acts like ATROPINE!!! and apparently VERY active for " just an herb " .

its vasodilating and adrenergic too!!

can be very dangerous for those with dysautonomias, autnomic disfunctions, those

on various meds for conditions that either dampen or elevate nervous system

and/or cardiovascular functions etc.

as always approach with caution, tell your Drs if you try this herb ( or better

yet BEFORE you do) and ask a good pharmacist IF you should even combine it with

current meds given YOUR health status. Remind the Dr and Pharm. that it is a "

antimuscarinic/anticholinergic " agent!!

be well

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