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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMyPillow guy gets Trump to trade in his advocacy for hydroxychloroquine for a flower oil to cure COV
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/mypillow-guy-gets-trump-to-trade-in-his-advocacy-for-hydroxychloroquine-for-a-flower-oil-to-cure-19/***** OLEANDER OIL IS EXTREMELY TOXIC!*****
https://www.drugs.com/npp/oleander.html#:~:text=Toxicology,lethargy%2C%20hepatotoxicity%2C%20and%20nephrotoxicity.
MyPillow guy gets Trump to trade in his advocacy for hydroxychloroquine for a flower oil to cure COVID-19
Published 1 min ago on August 16, 2020By Sarah K. Burris
President Donald Trump has come up with another cure to the coronavirus pandemic. According to Axios, Trump thinks that the oil from a flower could help save people.
Trump has expressed enthusiasm for the Food and Drug Administration to approve an extract from the oleander plant as a dietary supplement to cure COVID-19, despite lack of proof that it works, said Axios in the Sunday report.
More at link.
Blue Owl
(50,427 posts)n/t
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)But he will, no doubt, want all school kids to take this!
hlthe2b
(102,294 posts)Oleander Poisoning as an Example of Self-Medication Attempt
Işıl Bavunoğlu,1 Musa Balta,1 and Zeynep Türkmen2
Abstract
Background:
There is an increasing interest in herbal products as a self-medication method in recent years. Some plant extracts either turn into drugs over time or are consumed directly without treatment. One of these plants is Nerium oleander L., which is a potentially lethal plant, since it has cardiac glycosides. However, numerous researches of its extracts have been performed against cancer cell lines in recent literature. This contradiction leads to misinterpretation and induces the prevalence of intoxication or fatal cases.
Case Report:
This case is associated with an oleander-poisoned patient, who was admitted to the Emergency unit 20 hours after the first dose, and 8 hours after the second dose. Although she lives in a metropolis and has a higher level of education and numerous hospital facilities available, she had decided to take self-medication for her Hashimotos thyroiditis and malignant thyroid disease which was caused by her apprehensive thoughts. Oleandrin was detected in the urine at a concentration of 3.2 ng/mL and in the serum at a concentration of 8.4 ng/mL by chromatographic analysis at the time of admission.
Conclusion:
This case represents the misunderstanding of herbal treatments by the community. Promoting awareness of the potential toxicity of this plant among the public may help to reduce the incidence of poisoning due to Nerium species.
Keywords: Herbal treatment, oleandrin poisoning, self-medication
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Although, I prefer herbs & always self-medicate, after intensive research.
Ty for sharing!
hlthe2b
(102,294 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)I worry for innocent kids.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)And I personally only do non-toxic herbs, etc., or dose very carefully.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Off to research!
LeftInTX
(25,383 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Not sure. Parts of the plant apparently have medical uses, but not this way.
crickets
(25,981 posts)I can understand how a lab might extract a useful compound from this plant or other somewhat poisonous plants (digitalis/foxglove) but it's not something to encourage people to randomly consume. And we all know oleander will no more treat Covid any more than colloidal silver or hydroxychloroquine but the Fox News crowd is doomed to believe.
This is just as bad as suggesting bleach. Good lord, this man is a killer.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)In your title, add This is not from the Onion. Because when I read about something this far out, I look for the Onion. I know, I know, I should have learned by now. Maybe it is just a deep yearning in me for a return to normalcy, where I am not stunned by crazy stuff from a USA President on a daily basis.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Sorry there is no room.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)It is just me. My mind has gotten to the point where it is pushing back against the possibility that any public officer can be as crazy and corrupt as Trump.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)He has been deliberately destroying our country for years.🤬
malaise
(269,056 posts)The leaves alone can kill a child.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)I'm sure he will want all school kids to drink up.
hatrack
(59,587 posts)Initech
(100,081 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Good one!
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)These sob's need to be locked up!
Initech
(100,081 posts)1 shot of Clorox, 1 shot of Oleander Oil, shake well, pour into martini glass, garnish with a Tide Pod. Now that's good drinking!
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)And that crowd says hold the olive.
Initech
(100,081 posts)yankeepants
(1,979 posts)Read the book. Watch the movie.
DBoon
(22,369 posts)The Covid virus requires a live host to survive
I'm just worried about innocent kids.
DBoon
(22,369 posts)Watch over the next few days
People were hospitalized for ingesting bleach
Oleander will kill you much quicker
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)But I worry for innocent kids.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,855 posts)Everyone knows to promote a cure that's non-lethal and highly addictive, then there's automatically repeat-business.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Cha
(297,323 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Cha
(297,323 posts)Oleander juice.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)It should be obvious that Trump and his cohorts are trying to kill us.
I think they will end up killing off more of their base who will simply take their word for it. The Doh! Brigade.
Oh, he despises them so it may be good for laugh for his kind.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Guessing putin wants the "big farm (usa).
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Roland99
(53,342 posts)Great. A moron selling an overpriced pillow via commercials at 3am and a guy who thinks ancient Egyptians stored grain in the pyramids
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Ty for the laughs!
lunasun
(21,646 posts)an Alex Jones type conspiracy guy in the virus movie Contagion ?
People were lining up based on his blogs about the miracle cure
Big $$$
Illness, outbreaks , some people only see something like a new incurable virus as an opportunity to con for profit
Like trump & friends
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Real life is stressful enough & now here we are in a putin horror show. 🤬
lunasun
(21,646 posts)first watched Day After Tomorrow (about a global climate change cold storm) while a freezing polar vortex of arctic cold air swept over my city freezing everything in its path and brought on by..
climate change
I thought both movies were good although not the genre I would usually seek out.
But because they were about current topics when viewing , it may have made them more interesting I suppose than if I saw them when they first came out, and before they mirrored a little too close for comfort in some ways our real life
H1N1 & SARS were the inspiration
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contagion_(2011_film)
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)I just can't...
womanofthehills
(8,718 posts)The single mom is narcissistic and kills a lover when he rejects her. She poisoned him with oleander. She goes to jail for life but claims she is innocent and gets this big following of people working to get her out of jail. The daughter ends up going from one bad foster home to another and really hates her mom for her situation Good movie - it was made from a book of the same name. I remember reading it and throwing my beautiful oleander plant away for fear of my pets eating a leaf.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Glad you got rid of it without you or your pet getting sick!
Another member said a friend breathed the pollen & ended up hospitalized.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Chumputin should take first LARGE dose!
Is this what's in putin's vaccine???
Celerity
(43,416 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Is Vlad's "vaccine" oleander???
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