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2002-10-11 Thread Marilyn Kleidon
I am wondering if any of you saw a segment on the ABC TV program "Catalyst" last night (Thursday night) which featured a retired OZ OB/GYN and his rather innovative and somewhat retrospective idea for an anti-AIDS drug: Lemon Juice. Apparently (according to this doc) Cassanova had his women use the

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2002-10-11 Thread Jennifer Semple
I know this is serious stuff, but I just couldn't help but smile when Marilyn wrote "I'm going to go get a lemon" & then Tina replied "thought of doing a test for myself with a lemon". :o) I love midwives & I love being a woman! Hugs to you all, Jen -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Gr

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2002-10-11 Thread Lois Wattis
. Maybe the HIV researchers SHOULD consider all possibilities. Lois - Original Message - From: "Marilyn Kleidon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 11:32 AM Subject: [ozmidwifery] catslyst I am wondering if any of you saw a

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2002-10-11 Thread TinaPettigrew
Hi Marilyn, yes I too saw this program...found it really interesting...thought of doing a test for myself with a lemonfor what potential irritation it may cause...what is the pH of lemon juice...anyone know?? The pH of the vagina is low for vaginal health as it inhibits the growth of microrgan

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2002-10-11 Thread DebSlater
In a message dated 10/11/02 7:41:45 PM W. Australia Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I found interesting though Marilyn, was that most of the opposition that came against this doctor's proposal for lemon juice was from large pharmaceutical / drug companies with vested interests to th

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2002-10-11 Thread Marilyn Kleidon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 4:38 AM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] catslyst Hi Marilyn,yes I too saw this program...found it really interesting...thought of doing a test for myself with a lemonfor what potential irritation it may ca

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2002-10-11 Thread Marilyn Kleidon
IL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 4:34 AM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] catslyst > Hmn thought provoking. I remember reading MANY MANY YEARS ago, in > an ANCIENT medical encyclopaedia (pre 1900 I think) about the use of a cut > lemon inserted into the vagina and appl

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2002-10-11 Thread Mary Murphy
My Grandmother taught me to always rub the cutting board with the cut half of a lemon "to kill the germs" and to soak slightly "off" meat in a weak solution of vinegar and water for the same reason... works a treat. Must be the acid changing the Ph. No quite the same as the vagina I know. MM --

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2002-10-12 Thread Rhonda
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] catslyst  Wow, Lois did it really contract the uterus? u. interesting. What wasinteresting to me was that it was used for a couple of hundred years as aspermicide (by the known sexually promiscuous Cassanova et al

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2002-10-12 Thread Lynne Staff
what they do control - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 9:38 PM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] catslyst Hi Marilyn,yes I too saw this program...found it really interesting...thought of doing a test

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2002-10-12 Thread Lynne Staff
I wonder what the pH is compared to the pH of the vagina? Have to go to the textbooks, I think - Original Message - From: "Marilyn Kleidon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 12:53 AM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] catslyst >

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2002-10-12 Thread TinaPettigrew
In a message dated 11/10/02 9:41:45 PM AUS Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The pH of the vagina is low for vaginal health as it inhibits the growth of microrganisims etc... Hi Lynne, Marilyn and all, according to Stables (2000 p. 24), the pH of the vagina is 4.5 The acid medium

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2002-10-12 Thread Aviva Sheb'a
er 13, 2002 12:27 PM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] catslyst In a message dated 11/10/02 9:41:45 PM AUS Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The pH of the vagina is low for vaginal health as it inhibits the growth of microrganisims etc...Hi Lynne, Marilyn and all,according to Stables (20

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2002-10-12 Thread ltully
my thought was could it work with Group B strep? - Original Message - From: Marilyn Kleidon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 11:32 AM Subject: [ozmidwifery] catslyst > I am wondering if any of you saw a segment on the ABC TV pr