CLEAN YOUR KIDNEYS?

A message received from an email entitled "CLEAN YOUR KIDNEYS FOR LESS THAN $1.00", the author might be Dr. Abdullah Q Turkistani, said:

Years pass by and our kidneys are filtering the blood by removing salt, poison and any unwanted entering our body. With time, the salt accumulates and this needs to undergo cleaning treatments and how are we going to overcome this? It is very easy, first take a bunch of parsley and wash it clean. Then cut it in small pieces and put it in a pot and pour clean water and boil it for ten minutes and let it cool down and then filter it and pour in a clean bottle and keep it inside refrigerator to cool. Drink one glass daily and you will notice all salt and other accumulated poison coming out of your kidney by urination also you will be able to notice the difference which you never felt before. Parsley is known as best cleaning treatment for kidneys and it is natural!


My comment and suggestion:

Parsley appears to increase diuresis by inhibiting the Na+/K+-ATPase pump in the kidney, thereby enhancing sodium and water excretion while increasing potassium reabsorption. It is also valued as an aquaretic.

The other Herbal Aquaretics include adonis, agrimony, bearberry, buchu, dandelion, heartsease, hydrangea, lady's mantle, larch, and sassafras. Any of these herbs may provide the benifit of diuresis, however, they are potentially having their inherent health risks. For example, the roots of Sassafras can be steeped to make tea and were used in the flavoring of root beer until being banned by the FDA. Laboratory animals that were given oral doses of sassafras tea or sassafras oil that contained safrole developed permanent liver damage or various types of cancer. In humans liver damage can take years to develop and it may not have obvious signs. It is always true that every natural foods or medicines may bring up some benefits after use, and always along with a huge or tiny risks at the same time, Parsley is high (1.70% by mass) in oxalic acid, a compound involved in the formation of kidney stones and nutrient deficiencies.

Some vegetables such as alfalfa sprouts were thought to be good for preventing atherosclerosis by decreasing cholesterol level, eventually lowering the blood pressure. According to the result of some scientific studies, raw alfalfa sprouts contains a poisonous amino acid called L-Canavanine sulfate which can induce SLE and other immunodiseases. The other blood pressure lowering, Celery, is among a small group of foods (headed by peanuts) that appear to provoke the most severe allergic reactions; for people with celery allergy, exposure can cause potentially fatal anaphylactic shock.

My suggestion is that never to expect any curative or health-promoting effects from "natural foods"; everyone should identify carefully the information like the attached one of parsley and others which always lay emphasis on "all natural" even if it‘s written by a Doctor or PhD. Excessive and long-term use of a few particular vegetables or herbs may eventually invite some undesirable results which completely out of expection. Think again before taking any of the so-called Healthy Foods.