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"Cereus-validus..." wrote:
Phytotoxicity and sensitivity to plant toxins has nothing to do with diabetes. In logic, what you are alluding to is called "false cause" also know as coincidence. I'll go along with that. However it could be that there was an allergic reaction to the poinsettas that caused the diabetes. My logic for that goes like this. Diabetes is usually considered an autoimmunal disease where the pancreatic cells that produce insulin are attacked and killed. And if there is an allergy to a specific substance, that in turn can produce an autoimmunal response which in turn can kill pancreatic cells and thus the condition of diabetes becomes present. I don't have any proof of this being true... just food for thought. In fact, with all the talk about poinsettas being poisonous, anyone with an allergy to a poinsetta could possibly die from contact. I won't state that that is 100% true, because I never witnessed it, but it's definitely better to be safe than sorry. -- Jim Carlock Post replies to newsgroup. "madgardener" wrote: And that might be because she was diabetic. My grandmammy as I recall broke out when handling the poinsettia that was given her around Christmas when she "fooled with it" and so the task of caring for it during the Christmas season fell onto Pearline who adored and loved any flower or plant...(another recessed memory regarding my sweet Aunt Pearline who was responsible for my gardening madness surfaces.....) madgardener who believes that poinsettia's are not TOXIC.....can be irritating to some people and who loves all the diversities of the poinsettia's but doesn't grow or have them herself (my cacti and succulents and few tropicals and ferns suffer enough in my warm, dry house, thank you) up on the ridge, back in Fairy Holler, overlooking English Mountain in Eastern Tennessee |
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