Talk:Borage

message: Borage is one of the traditional additions to the "salad" added to a Pimm's (no. 1 - the gin-based Pimm's) - at least in the UK.
Hair Commodore 21:11, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pimm's and borage 

message: Borage has also become a running joke among many people in the UK as a hallucinatory drug...perhaps this should be added?
--82.28.113.136 21:15, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Anyone who thinks that borage is halucinatory has been taking too many genuine drugs already!  In fact, eating any part of the plant apart from the oil may result in liver damage because of the pyrrolizidine alkaloids present.  Just because it's natural, it doesn't mean it's safe.  Beechnut (talk) 23:40, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Borage as a drug 

message: I have added this:
"Tea made from the dried flowers is a traditional calming drink in Iran. It has a rich purple color that amazingly turns into a bright pink by adding a few drops of lemon juice"
I think it is significant to note that the flowers could also be brewed as a tea, among other culinary uses.
I have no idea why some unidentified IPs keep deleting this sentence. Isn't it informative and interesting. (The change of color is really amazing, just try it once).
Sararkd (talk) 22:14, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that this is an interesting fact and would like to see it retained.  However, I can also see why it was deleted (not by me), because there is no external reference to support the statement.  If you can supply an independent source which corroborates it, then I think that it will be safe from deletion. See WP:RS. Beechnut (talk) 12:14, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

text: Fair point about the German reference - that needs a reference too.  I was only suggesting why I thought your contribution had been deleted and how to make it safe.  I don't think this is an edit war.  If you provide good references, no fair-minded editor will delete your work. And edits by unfair-minded editors can easily be reversed. Beechnut (talk) 22:02, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use as tea 

message: I was a little curious about the claims made in the article so I conducted a literature search and found a scientific study that seems to refute the claim that borage contains a high concentration (10 ppm) of pyrrolizidine alkaloids.
:Pyrrolizidine Alkaloid Content in Crude and Processed Borage Oil from Different Processing Stages 
If there are no objections within the next two days I'll proceed to remove these claims from the article since this study seems to render such a claim (at the very least) moot.</br>Anubeon (talk) 18:02, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If you read carefully the title of the paper you cited, you will see that they found no alkaloids in the seed oil.  The wiki article refers to alkaloids in the leaves, which were not examined by the authors of the paper.  The wiki article needs a lot of work on it, or even a complete rewrite, which I hope to tackle one day when I have time.  Meanwhile, the alkaloid statements are accurate so please don't delete them.  See, for instance http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/Bora_off.html Beechnut (talk) 20:39, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Refutation of the pyrrolizidine alkaloid content of borage 

message: Since Borage interacts with hormone levels, is it possible that it could interfere with the effectiveness of oral contraceptives and other hormone-based medications? Or would a few flowers be too low a dosage to have an effect?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.107.210.238 (talk) 11:21, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interaction with other medication 

message: The claim about this stuff being effective in naturopathic preparations is dubious. Does anyone have any evidence to support this claim? Delta13C (talk) 19:49, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Effectivness 

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