Re:  Cabbage and Wounds

I've noted,  with some distress,   the use of cabbage for everything from
salads to warts to senility to breast engorgement to who-knows-what
tomorrow.   If memory serves me,  I remember a paper illustrating
transmission of botulinism(or tetanus)  via cabbage,  suggesting that
whatever was used to "fertilize" the cabbage patch,  could easily be
transmitted with said leaves.  In this case,  it was sheep manure.

Using cabbage extract on open wounds,  particularly nipple ulcerations...is
absolutely ridiculous.  After many years in medicine,  it is absolutely
amazing to me the power of mere rumor.  Someone says that someone tried,
that it worked on someone else,  so it must be true.   We're supposed to be
a literate group,  and our leaders(KBs) have warned us not to profligate
matters that we cannot support.

I'm sorry,  I just hate unsubstantiated claims.


TWHale