Dont mix lauki & karela juice as it may supress the bitter taste of the lauki
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From: shalendra singh <
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Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 10:14:19 +0400
Subject: Re: {Food Safety Dubai} Toxin in lauki (bottle gourd) kills
CSIR scientist in Delhi
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foodsafety...@googlegroups.comThe toxin which is responsible for the death is Cucurbitacins ,
Cucurbitacins are complex compounds found in plants belonging to
cucumber family (bottle gourd, cucumber, squash, pumpkin and melon)
The tetracyclic triterpinpoid cucurbitacins compounds are responsible
for its bitterness
and are highly toxic.A 1.2 mg dose of these toxic
compounds is capable of killing a mouse. It cancause humans to vomit
blood.
Experts say one needs to stay away from bitter bottle gourd, cucumber,
squash, pumpkin and melon. These vegetables, which are considered one
of the healthiest, belong to the cucurbitaceae family.
On 7/9/10, shalendra singh <
shai...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A very common practice in India observed by diabetic peoples and who
> suffers other chronic diseases .
>
>
>
http://m.indiatoday.in/itwapsite/story?sid=104719&secid=120>
>
>
> Toxin in lauki kills CSIR scientist in Delhi
>
>
> POP remedies, like those
promoted by television gurus as traditional
> medicine to cure chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension,
> may kill you if you are not careful. The reason: these herbal remedies
> and vegetable juices can be very poisonous, especially when they taste
> unusually bitter.
>
> This is the lesson a Delhi family has learnt the hard way. Sushil
> Kumar Saxena, a 59-year-old deputy secretary with the Council for
> Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), died shortly after
> following the popular remedy of drinking a glass of juice from lauki
> or bottle gourd and bitter gourd (karela) to control diabetes.
>
> The drink was bitter-and lethal-but the CSIR official ignored this,
> perhaps thinking the bitterness came from the karela. Saxena was
> initially taken to a CGHS dispensary and then to Rockland Hospital,
> but he was dead by then. His diabetic 56-year
old wife Neeraj, who
> also took the lauki (also known as ghiya) and karela juice has barely
> survived. She was in hospital for a week.
>
> "No doctor told us to have vegetable juice. We were inspired by Baba
> Ramdev's suggestions and his programmes on the television. I will
> never ever listen to his suggestions again," said Neeraj, a resident
> of Nankpura, Bottle gourd, cucumber, squash, pumpkin and melon can
> turn lethal if they taste bitter as they have Tetracyclic Triterpenoid
> Cucurbitacins compound which is highly toxic. The compound is
> responsible for bitterness in vegetables.
>
> "Vegetables like bottle gourd, cucumber, squash, pumpkin and melon are
> considered one of the healthiest vegetables but they can turn lethal,
> if bitter. In botanical terms these belong to the cucurbitaceae
> family. Cucurbitacins are complex compounds found in plants
belonging
> to the cucumber family," explained Dr M.P. Sharma, head of the
> department, gastroenterology and internal medicine, Rockland hospital.
>
> Ironically, though Saxena worked with a scientific body, he paid the
> price for ignoring an elementary rule-never treat yourself by watching
> television. The incident took place on June 23 and the medical report
> on the CSIR official's death-revealing bottle gourd poisoning as the
> cause of death-was finalised this week.
>
> "Saxena was brought dead to us while Neeraj was in a bad condition. It
> was a case of bottle gourd poisoning. An endoscopy revealed that his
> stomach was profusely bleeding. The deceased had consumed 250 ml of
> the juice while his wife had consumed 150ml of the same juice," said
> Dr Sharma of Rockland Hospital.
>
> The diabetic couple started taking their daily dose of 'lauki'
juice
> some four years ago, inspired by prescriptions doled out by Baba
> Ramdev on television. They would prepare a concoction of juice from
> 'lauki'and 'karela' with black salt. It was a daily routine.
>
> Things went horribly wrong on June 23. The drink was unusually bitter.
> Paying no attention to this, both drank the freshly-extracted juice.
> Soon after, they took ill.
>
> "My husband was a diabetic patient for over 27 years and the juice
> actually controlled the disease. My diabetes was also on the border
> line. So, it (the killer effect of the juice) was unexpected. Soon
> after drinking the fresh juice, he started vomiting blood. My
> condition was also the same but I had taken a smaller amount of the
> juice," said Neeraj.
>
> The incident has knocked the bottom off the popular belief that
> anything herbal or of plant origin is safe for
humans. Botanists say
> that higher levels of chemicals cucurbitacins are triggered by wide
> temperature swings, high temperature, too little water and low soil
> fertility.
>
> Improper storage of vegetables are also one of the reasons of forming
> such compounds. These toxins, Dr Sharma said, cause swelling in the
> liver, pancreas, gall bladder and kidney when absorbed into the blood.
>
> "This in turn can lead to multiorgan dysfunction which can be fatal in
> some cases," he said.
>
> Research by the Departments of Medicine and Department of
> Anaesthesiology of the Himalayan Institute of Medical sciences at
> Dehradun assessed the effects of bitter bottle gourd.
>
> "Drinking one or two glasses of fresh bottle gourd juice in the
> morning on an empty stomach is one such practice particularly in
> India. However, sometimes, such practice can
become dangerous and life
> threatening," the research said.
>
> The research also said that severe toxicity occurs accidentally in
> patients who regularly consume large quantities of fresh bottle gourd
> juice as a health drink on the advice of naturopaths or ayurveda
> doctors.
>
> A few years ago, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)
> in association with AYUSH, conducted a research on plants and
> vegetables that are reported to have cure a for diabetes.
>
> "There weren't any great minimising effects of these plants like
> gourd, neem and jamun even though some of them are known to bring down
> sugar levels. In fact, a few of these plants had no effect at all in
> controlling diabetes," said Dr Anoop Mishra, the principal
> investigator of the research. Dr Mishra is also chairman, National
> Diabetes, Obesity, Cholesterol Foundation
and director, and head of
> the Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, Fortis Hospital.
> "The patients should not follow these things as mainstream treatment
> of diabetes," he said
>
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