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Grapefruit juice can boost potency of cancer drugs - The Times of India
This is not new
This is mentioned in Vedas.
The sour grape (amphakion) "Omphacium" is a kind of oil obtained from the olive and vine. The former is from white olive and the vine is from Aminaean grape, when the size of a chick- pea just rising of dog star (The Sun). The verjuice (Unripe fruit juice) is put in earthen vessels and then stored in vessels of cyprian copper. The best is reddish, acrid and dry to taste. Also the unripe grape is pounded in the mortar, dried in the Sun and then divided in to lozenges. The aminaean grape is a lanata or woolly grape "So that we not be surprised at the wool bearing trees of seres or the Indians." The former were mulberry trees with silk worm cocoons bred on them and later were cotton. Pliny says "Omphacium heals ulcerations of the humid parts of the body such as the mouth, tonsillary glands etc., the powerful action of omphacium is modified by honey or raisin vine. It also cure dysentery, spitting of blood and quinsy." (Ref:Wilfred H.Schoff, Ed,, Periplus of the Erythraean Sea(Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean by a merchant of the first Century) Second edition., Oriental books reprint Corporation, New Delhi-110055, 1974 pp 75-76) Further there were number of wooden planks used for extracting oils. This is described in a book by Chattopadhyay K.P., Ancient India Cultures and Migrations, Firma K.L..Mukhopadhyay, Culcutta-12, 1970 pp 91-98
So it is already there, old wine in new container!
This is not new
This is mentioned in Vedas.
The sour grape (amphakion) "Omphacium" is a kind of oil obtained from the olive and vine. The former is from white olive and the vine is from Aminaean grape, when the size of a chick- pea just rising of dog star (The Sun). The verjuice (Unripe fruit juice) is put in earthen vessels and then stored in vessels of cyprian copper. The best is reddish, acrid and dry to taste. Also the unripe grape is pounded in the mortar, dried in the Sun and then divided in to lozenges. The aminaean grape is a lanata or woolly grape "So that we not be surprised at the wool bearing trees of seres or the Indians." The former were mulberry trees with silk worm cocoons bred on them and later were cotton. Pliny says "Omphacium heals ulcerations of the humid parts of the body such as the mouth, tonsillary glands etc., the powerful action of omphacium is modified by honey or raisin vine. It also cure dysentery, spitting of blood and quinsy." (Ref:Wilfred H.Schoff, Ed,, Periplus of the Erythraean Sea(Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean by a merchant of the first Century) Second edition., Oriental books reprint Corporation, New Delhi-110055, 1974 pp 75-76) Further there were number of wooden planks used for extracting oils. This is described in a book by Chattopadhyay K.P., Ancient India Cultures and Migrations, Firma K.L..Mukhopadhyay, Culcutta-12, 1970 pp 91-98
So it is already there, old wine in new container!
