Word: lobelia
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...Reports, which issued a "dirty dozen" list of supplements that have been linked to cancer, kidney or liver damage and heart problems and some of which have been banned in Europe and Asia. What to avoid: aristolochic acid, comfrey, androstenedione, chaparral, germander, kava, bitter orange, organ or gland extracts, lobelia, pennyroyal oil, scullcap and yohimbe. In addition, the FDA says, consumers should steer clear of supplements called Actra-Rx and Yilishen, which contain prescription-strength levels of sildenafil, the active ingredient in Viagra. It can lower blood pressure to dangerous levels...
...safe. The FDA last week got a prod when Consumers Union (CU) warned Americans that they should avoid a "dirty dozen" that may cause cancer, kidney or liver damage, even death. The list: aristolochic acid (birthwort), comfrey, germander, androstenedione, chaparral, kava, bitter orange, organ or gland extracts, lobelia, pennyroyal oil, scullcap and yohimbe...
...game, what with pistils and stamens and their frank, unblinking, scandalous fertility, and our salacious Italian bees stirring constantly among them, the messengers of love. A soap opera of many seasons goes on and on, starring characters like Blue-bird Violet, Motherwort, Spreading Dogbane, Lady's Thumb, and Spiked Lobelia...
...scholarship. She tells us, for example, that the first named variety of apple in North America was Blaxton's Yellow Sweeting, introduced around 1640 by a clergyman, William Blaxton, at what is now the corner of Charles and Beacon streets in Boston. One variety of the handsome blue lobelia was prized by the Indians as a cure for syphilis - and bought for a pretty price by a gullible English nobleman. The colonizers were more astute about Solidago, or goldenrod, that "humble and glorious" wildflower, which they took home and improved and now sell back to Americans for fancy sums...
...hunch, they took the flyer from the store and showed it to a young woman who had been a babysitter for the Bishops. Shown the grisly photos, she cried out: "That's the Bishop family!" The flyer showed Annette Bishop, 37, her husband's mother, Mrs. Lobelia Bishop, 68, and the Bishop boys, William Bradford III, 14, Brenton, 10, and Geoffrey, 5. The only missing member of the family was Bradford Bishop, 39. Says North Carolina Attorney General Rufus Edmisten, once Senator Sam Ervin's assistant during the Watergate hearings, "Everything just fell into place" after that...