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Offline lisalu

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Flour?
« on: July 11, 2004, 10:46:40 PM »
Anyone heard of this one...

A couple of weeks ago I went to see my friends from a course I was doing before I had the baby, two new women had started who are from the Congo, they said that people in the Congo who suffer from P mix a paste from a special kind of flour and lay it on the afflicted areas and the P disapears.  Unfortunately, the flour is not readily available at Sainsbury's!  It's from the Congo, and I don't even know if it has a name!  Has anyone else heard of this or similar?
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« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2004, 11:29:38 PM »
No, not heard of anything like, but always interested to hear more ...

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Re: Flour?
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2004, 03:22:50 AM »
Never heard of it, but wouldn't mind trying it! let me know if we have any more info!
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Re: Flour?
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2004, 09:30:29 AM »
Just did a search for "congo flour" and it came up with a flour made from manioc (cassava) roots.  Here's a link, don't know if its the right one!

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found a few other links combining it with psoriasis, but nothing specific yet!
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Re: Flour?
« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2004, 08:35:17 PM »
Elaine, I bet you are right. Gari is the staple food in southern Nigeria which is a tropical rain forest area like the Congo. Gari is a a sort of porridge made from Cassava flour. One interesting thing about Cassava is that the flour is made from cooked roots of the plant which are highly poisonous unless subjected to a lot of heat. The heat drives off the prussic acid (a cyanide compound) in the root making it safe to grind into a flour to eat. I wonder how many people died trying to find a safe way of eating cassava.
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Re: Flour?
« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2004, 06:02:06 PM »
Ooh, don't know if I fancy trying it now! :-/
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Re: Flour?
« Reply #6 on: July 26, 2004, 01:02:14 AM »
Have heard about the banana cure from Africa, but not the flour cure?
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