Chamomile tea, the new study

I speculate whether this new report is a result ofrolling-over-rocks to find redeeming qualities of a"natural" health product. I wonder if they couldanalyze the urine of 14 people who, for 14 days, ate 5handfuls/day of alf-alfa sprouts, beeswax, or pasturebiscuits and then find increased levels of somethingbeneficial. But, nothing wrong with that, it's acurrent fad to commercially pump the health benefitsof a vested product, be it soy, milk, grape juice,whatever. But, for some reason, you don't see thegrape juice research hyped-up on the altie websiteslike chamomile. Go figure. -dras
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Reported by Reuters from a study (today) in American Chemical Society’s Journal of Agricultural and FoodChemistry and already picked up by mercola and severalother popular health sites.Drinking chamomile tea (FIVE cups/day for 14 days)produced changes in the urine including an increase inhippurate, an antibacterial substance producednaturally in the gut that may also have antiinflammatory properties as well. And also higherlevels of glycine, an amino acid found mostly inconnective tissue (and nutritional supplements.)The study based at Imperial College London and wasfunded by Oxford Natural Products plc.