Re: wrote you an e-mail
Posted by Catherine Cartwright-Jones on August 28, 2004 at 17:36:11:
In reply to: wrote you an e-mail posted by gazel on August 28, 2004 at 12:19:07:
: hey catherine!! i wrote you an e-mail like you told me to,please: check your account!!:)
And I replied .......
Its clearly misinformation, and I'm intrigued how misinformation
originates and propogates.
I went through the university research databases last night for
ziziphus spina christi. (this from a couple of monster databases, and
if I can't find a reference among them ..... as they detabase over 100
million books and articles ...and simply could NOT turn up anything
stating that its marketed as neutral henna. I found it has some
tannins, is not particularly effective against yeast infections ...
lots of stuff. Now, if I can go through databases that size, and only
turn up one "soft" reference that says it has been used in hair dyes
... I'm certainly not persuaded that ziziphys = neutral henna. Just
doesn't hold up.
It sure wasn't in the dissertataion in natural hair dyes that I found,
not as neutral henna, not as nuthin'. I found plenty valid resouces
naming cassia obovata as neutral henna (and I verified that with
exporters)
So ........... dunno what you've got there. I know cassia obovata =
cassia obovata, and that's widely exported and documented as neutral
henna, though most of the info on that is in other languages, not
English...
So is somebody's misinformation just getting repeated and repeated? I
wonder.
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