methyl salicylate aka wintergreen oil (From Butch)

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From Butch, who can't get into the groups now.

 

Methyl Sal will kill you

 

>Hey y'all,

I've been writing on this for 7-8 years now but many don't want to

hear the message because Wintergreen and Sweet Birch (Methyl

salicylate) and all of the commercial preparations DO WORK .. but even

when death does NOT occur .. there is often permanent liver damage

from routine usuage of arthritis and rhumatism over the counter

medications. Even the meds have a warning on them to not use for more

than 5 or 7 days or so and if problems persist one should contact

their doctor. Problem is .. Methyl salicylate DOES WORK and folks who

use those preparations use them for Chronic problems .. so they are

NOT going to stop when they are getting relief .. BigPharm knows this

but the law protects those greedy bastards if they put that useless

warning on the package.

 

NEW YORK (AP) -- A medical examiner blamed a 17-year-old track star's

death on the use of too much muscle cream, the kind used to soothe

aching legs after exercise.

 

Arielle Newman, a cross-country runner at Notre Dame Academy on Staten

Island, died after her body absorbed high levels of methyl salicylate,

an anti-inflammatory found in sports creams such as Bengay and Icy

Hot, the New York City medical examiner said Friday.

 

The medical examiner's spokeswoman, Ellen Borakove, said the teen used

" topical medication to excess. " She said it was the first time that

her office had reported a death from using a sports cream.

 

Newman, who garnered numerous track awards, died April 13. She had

gone to a party the night before, then returned home and spent hours

talking with her mother.

 

Methyl salicylate poisoning is unusual, and deaths from high levels of

the chemical are rare.

 

" Chronic use is more dangerous than one-time use, " Edward Arsura,

chairman of medicine at Richmond University Medical Center, told the

Staten Island Advance on Friday. " Exercise and heat can accentuate

absorption. "

 

Dr. Ronald Grelsamer, of Mount Sinai Medical Center, said Newman had a

very abnormal amount of methyl salicylate in her body.

 

" She either lathered herself with it, or used way too much, or she

used a normal amount and an abnormal percentage was absorbed into her

body, " he said.

 

Her mother, Alice Newman, said she still couldn't believe her

daughter's death was caused by a sports cream.

 

" I am scrupulous about my children's health, " she told the Advance. " I

did not think an over-the-counter product could be unsafe. "

Copyright 2007 The Associated Press . All rights reserved.<

 

Sat Jun 9, 2007 10:52 pm

 

 

 

, Bobbi <herbalsoaplady wrote:

>

> Read in the paper today that a 17 year old track star used excessive

> amounts of muscle rubs (Ben Gay or Icy Hot) and her body absorbed high

> enough levels of methyl salicylate ( wintergreen oil0 to cause her

> death. How sad.

>

> Best,

>

> Bobbi Guerra

>