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Re: cayenne

How come the cayenne kills only the bad insects? Or does it.
I used to read a lot of health books that said garlic or cayenne killed
candida, but when I had it, I found garlic and cayenne also killed the good
bacteria in my colon which made the candida flare up worse.

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> From: Natalie McNair-Huff <nitcha@wolfenet.com>
> To: indoor-gardening@prairienet.org
> Subject: Re: rabbits
> Date: Monday, March 30, 1998 10:14 AM
> 
> Please, rather than using rotenone for this purpose, use cayenne pepper,
> extra hot liberally sprinkled around your plants. Rotenone kills tons of
> beneficial insects which can radically put the ratio of good bugs/bad
bugs
> out of balance then creating a vicious circle where you need to use more
> rotenone to kill more bad bugs.
> 
> >I used to use rotenone as either a spray or dust on my outdoor plants
when
> >rabbits or squirrels became a problem.  The material is very low
toxicity
> >to mammals and tastes terrible...almost mettallic.  Don't ask me how I
> >found this out but it was accidental (blush).
> 
> >Dave
> >Milwaukee
> 
> >>
> >>
> 
> 
> *******************************
> Natalie McNair-Huff, organic gardener
> "as a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era or
> corruption in high places will follow...until all wealth is aggregated in
a
> few hands, and the Republic is destroyed." Abraham Lincoln.
>
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