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| File Name : KOMBUCHA.ASC | Online Date : 06/10/95 |
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The following deals with claims that drinking Kombucha 'Mushroom' tea might be
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detrimental to health.
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220 33386 <5mCcxkzEaPB@kombucha.pf.bawue.de> article
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org!aragon.stgt.sub.org !camelot.pf .bawue.de!kombucha.pf.bawue.de!frank
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Date: 20 May 1995 15:55:00 +0200
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From: frank@kombucha.pf.bawue.de (Guenther Frank)
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.herbs,misc.health.alternative
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Message-ID: <5mCcxkzEaPB@kombucha.pf.bawue.de>
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References: <3pj13e$i4h@borg.svpal.org>
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Subject: Re: kombucha tea- there is no concern
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Organization: Guenther W. Frank
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> kombucha may contain aspergillus and other fungi...may be dangerous for
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> people with depressed immunity, with cancer, on corticosteroids, etc. It
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> has no known health benefits.
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Oh no, there is really *NO CONCERNS* if you you prepare your Kombucha tea
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according to proven rules with thought and carefulness;
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Just see what the "German FDA" says:
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KOMBUCHA IS A VITALIZING AND COMPLETELY HARMLESS BEVERAGE
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Especially in health shops, the Asian tea mushroom "Kombucha" is praised as a
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universal panacea. But are there some hidden negative side effects involved as
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well?
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Prof. Dr. Dr. F. Staib (Robert-Koch-Institute of the German Public Health
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Department*) answers this question of a worried doctor:
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"Kombucha consists of a jelly-like substance which develops from a sort of
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a symbiosis of fermenting yeasts and acetic bacteria in sugared black tea.
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The resulting products are alcohol, carbonic acid and various organic
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acids, which can be enjoyed as a vitalizing beverage known in Russia as
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'tea-kwass'.
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No harmful effects on health have been discovered so far. And what is
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more, such effects are highly unlikely due to natural preservation
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substances which also develop during the short fermentation process."
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*) The German Health Department is the corresponding organisation to the
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American FDA.
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Translated by Gunther Frank from "Hessische Allgemeine
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Sonntagszeitung" Nr. 24, June 14, 1992, page 24
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The Kombucha Mushroom protects itself. In Russian reports it is even
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mentioned that no special precautionary measures are needed because the the
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mushroom protects itself against impurities.
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It has a number of protective features: the organic acids, the low alcoholic
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content, carbonic acid. All these jointly block the development of all foreign
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microorganisms not belonging to the Kombucha organism..
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The Russian researcher I.N. Konovalow mentions in his report of 1959, that the
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intensive growth of the Kombucha culture leven and bacteria distinctly
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suppresses the spreading of other yeast and bacterial varieties. Also the
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Russian Proffessor G.F. Barbancik (1958) reports of tests which showed that
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the Kombucha microrganisms drive out all other microbes energetically
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(antagonism).
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Because the Kombucha culture grows cheerfully and is parted willingly, all
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friends and aquaintances can soon benefit. It is a good custom to pass on the
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Kombucha mushroom to other people as a sign of friendship and mutual
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helpfulness. May Kombucha provide all of you many benefits.
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Gunther
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Gunther W. Frank, Genossensch.-Str. 10, 75217 Birkenfeld/Germany
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Fax (01149) 7231-485046 (24 hours a day) - Book "Kombucha - Healthy
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beverage and natural remedy from the Far East" is available in USA
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through Valentine Communications, P.O. Box 11089, NAPLES, FL 33941-1089
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Tel. 813-263-4101 Fax 813-263-8797
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