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| Woman chews bomb |
| 2006-05-08 |
| SHIMLA, INDIA: A woman in Himachal Pradesh was critically injured when she mistook a country made explosive for a piece of jaggery and bit into it. The woman, whose mouth was ripped apart, was passing a makeshift colony of gypsies near the town Poanta Sahib, 175 km from here, when she began talking to someone and chewed on what she thought was a sweet. To her horror, it turned out to be a homemade explosive used by gypsies to hunt wild animals. Three men have been arrested for questioning. |
| Posted by:john |
| #5 http://www.ehponline.org/members/1994/Suppl-5/sahu-full.html Enhanced Translocation of Particles from Lungs by Jaggery By Anand P. Sahu and Ashok K. Saxena Industrial Toxicology Research Centre, Lucknow, India Abstract Because industrial workers in dusty or smoky environments seemed to experience no discomfort if they consumed the sugar cane product jaggery, experimental studies were undertaken to observe the effects of jaggery on dust-exposed rats. Rats with and without a single intratracheal instillation of coal dust (50 mg/rat) were orally gavaged with jaggery (0.5 g/rat, 5 days/week for 90 days) . The enhanced translocation of coal particles from lungs to tracheobronchial lymph nodes was observed in jaggery-treated rats. Moreover, the jaggery reduced the coal-induced histological lesions and hydroxyproline contents of lungs. The lesions induced in omental tissue and regional lymph nodes by a single intraperitoneal injection of 50 mg each of coal and silica dust were modified by jaggery (0.5 g/rat, 5 days/week for 30 days) . These findings along with the preventive action of jaggery on smoke-induced lung lesions suggest the potential of jaggery as protective agent for workers in dusty and smoky environments. -- Environ Health Perspect 102(Suppl 6) :211-214 (1994) . |
| Posted by: john 2006-05-08 19:01 |
| #4 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaggery Jaggery is the traditional unrefined sugar of India. Although the word is used for the products of both sugarcane and the date palm tree, technically, jaggery refers solely to sugarcane sugar. Jaggery is considered by some to be a particularly wholesome sugar and, unlike refined sugar, retains more mineral salts. Moreover, the process does not involve chemical agents. Indian Ayurvedic medicine considers jaggery to be beneficial in treating throat and lung infections; Sahu and Saxena found that in rats jaggery can prevent lung damage from particulate matter such as coal and silica dust (1994). |
| Posted by: john 2006-05-08 18:59 |
| #3 Excuse me for being culturally insensative here, but what the heck is jaggery? Can I find it on Ebay? |
| Posted by: Capsu 78 2006-05-08 18:51 |
| #2 Don't take. Ask. |
| Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-05-08 18:29 |
| #1 Don't take candy from gypsies ? |
| Posted by: john 2006-05-08 17:01 |