OT - Cilantro, chelation, clotting...

[milivica]

Cilantro is a natural chelator of mercury (google Dr. Omura for all the studies).

When I used it, it greatly reduced my 'time' of the month both in volume and days. I had none of my usual large clots either. I thought it was because it somehow thinned my blood, but it was the opposite, it made it thicker (like the opposite of what aspirin does) so it flowed slower, and didn't form clots.

My question is, what makes blood clot exactly. I found this http://web.indstate.edu/thcme/mwking/blood-coagulation.html and honestly, I'm not getting it really. I thought it was platelets and I imagine tiny plates like dinner plates only made of sort of thick gel, in the blood. But what I'm trying to figure out, is which part of that site, does the cilantro effect? And, is it something that could be considered for someone that is a hemophiliac?

Not a major question, but I am very just very curious about it. And the site I found was so informative, it was too informative and confusing. Know what I mean? Like, why do I get a scab if I get hurt, and a hemophiliac doesn't?

[mc4_a]

Here's an animated video:
http://health.howstuffworks.com/adam-200077.htm

[milivica]

Woah that is SO COOL. I bet that's a site my son would really enjoy. He asks lots of questions now, that I don't know the answers to. Simple stuff I probably learned in 4th grade science and whatnot, stuff I 'should' know, but don't.

Very cool. I love how basic the explanation is, I can actually wrap my head around it.

[MomOTwins]

I could swear that I remember from my grad school physiology class that clots that occur during menses are formed differently compared to regular clotting procedures when you cut yourself. There was some clotting factor that wasn't present in the monthly bleeding cycle process, from what I recall - now you've got me wracking my brain trying to remember. :confused: Got to get the old text books out...drat, I HATE getting old!

If i can find the info., I'll be sure to post it for Ms. Mili, as enquiring minds really do want to know!

Kim

Found a little information that may be interesting - a study in the UK found that the first 1-3 days of the cycle had the least amount of thrombin in the outflow, then increased slowly over the remainder of the period. Take a look at the video clip to see where thrombin comes into the clotting process jsut to verify my suspicion, but I'm thinking this helps to explain why clotting (at least larger amounts) occurs later in the period.

[LIZARD]

My question is, what makes blood clot exactly.

I was given Vit K to help me clot when I delivered the kids. (Phenobarb is a blood thinner.)


LIZARD :)

[milivica]

I know cilantro is loaded with Vit K, it just seemed from that hellish thread I found and tried to understand, there are just so so many factors to the blood clotting.

Which is why I liked the 'how it works' video.

My time of the month is more like hemmoraging, and I'm so not kidding. Since cilantro helps so darn much, I got this crazy idea wondering if it would help hemophiliacs at all. I got that crazy idea cause doing a google search on clotting, it showed a reduced age expectancy for hemophiliacs, I didn't realize there was a reduced age expectancy. Anyhow, then I got curious about a ton of non-asd related stuff. And here I am.

[matika]

Ok,, you might think this is silly and completely not related but...
If you are familiar with Mexican cousin, we eat Cactus in Mexico,, we call them Nopales and I am sure some of you know what I am taking about.

They are cut when tender, and just like you do fish to take off the scales, you do this to take off the needles, which at this stage are soft and young and small.

you cut them up and boil them in water. The thing is, they become extremely slimy and slippery, not somthing you really want to put into your mouth unless you are the type to like oysters, then slimy stuff probably don't bother you :D.

To cut the slimy out of them, we throw in some cilantro,, it literally cuts the slimy off and then it just looks like Cactus soup, which we then drain off and we cook the Nopales with eggs or whatnot.

Wonder if this has something to do with what it does for you. It's obiously a chemical reaction that makes the Nopales not be slimy and oily, maybe it changed your body, and escuse me been graffic here,, but a lot of mucus is mixed with mestruation blood, depending on how much, is how it flows,, well perhaps it cuts on the mucus and makes periods a bit more normal then if there was other fluids mixed with it?? Just a thought.

beky

[milivica]

Beky, I am never going to a bar-b-que or cook out or picnic of any kind, at your house.

That slimy cactus thing (and I like slimey foods) is like trying to drink your own mucus plug, only bitter.

[tgrimes]

too funny :).
It would be great to understand how it is helping reduce clots and desliming cactus soup. I see an easy science project coming on!
I wonder if it works on aloe slime and (eeeew) okra slime.

[matika]

MILIIIII!!!! I will never ever again will be able to put a nother piece of Nopal in my mouth, NEVER :p

/me faints