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Topic: Dye found in blue M&M's mends spinal injuries

emla999/Lyme
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I thought this was rather interesting.

Brilliant Blue G, the food dye that gives blue M&Ms their color may help mend spinal injuries.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/5921266/Blue-MandMs-mend-spinal-injuries.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32178712/ns/health-more_health_news/

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ninjaphire
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Is there something special about blue dyes ? LOL

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emla999/Lyme
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It does appear that way doesn't it? First Methylene Blue and now Brilliant Blue G.

But the blue dyes aren't the only dyes that have medicinal properties. The purple dye Gentian Violet has some useful medicinal properties as well.

Gentian Violet's antifungal properties.

http://www.docguide.com/news/content.nsf/news/852571020057CCF68525736F0075EDD0

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1567268

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8389723

In the study directly above Gentian Violet killed a fungus that Itraconazole couldn't kill. And Itraconazole is one of the most powerful antifungal drugs available.

Gentian Violet is also an effective treatment for other infectious diseases such as Impetigo and MRSA.

Gentian Violet is effective against MRSA

http://iospress.metapress.com/content/l8q8t35x62v03201/fulltext.html

http://tinyurl.com/ldwj2u

Plus Gentian Violet is very cheap.

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Geneal
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Here I thought only the "green" m & m's had special powers. [Big Grin]

Interesting stuff.

Hugs,

Geneal

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ninjaphire
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Oh, you can actually buy bags of blue m&m's.

People say that the blue ones taste different from other colors.

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kelmo
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I heard it is also in Blue Gatorade

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