raincrone@juno.com wrote: But as an herbalist, I'd want to know which compounds were in there, and in what amounts, before I'd wanna eat it. Hundreds if not thousands of seemingly innocuous aromatic plant compounds are medicinal, or genuinely risky in some way, or both at different strengths or with different manner or length of use ======================================= Everything is bad for you Rain . kinda make me wonder what herbalist's actually eat.. Sorry bout that..Knuckle dragging there.. p.s. dont give me any ammo by replying as I can probably find plenty of bad things in there.. (without going online.. Use it as a spice or condiment by all means but if yr worried don't treat it as a Major food group.. Luke in Oz