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re: 8959

If you spent as many nights searching Yahoo Groups, looking for a subject to catch your interest, as I have, you too would have caught the same things as I did.

After I joined 100's of groups, I discovered that the open archives often told me what was in the group, often you will find only one message worth having and it can be forwarded from the group to your email, even if you are not a member.

I went to y.groups this morning and tried : Health & Wellness, then Alternative Medicine, then Herbal Medicine.

found: ixora (sehat bersama) Which may be about a plant used in herbals, I can't read the messages, but there appears to be a meeting on the 11th.

The one that caught my interest was the second on the list:
herb n muslims:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/herbnmuslims/message76

owner: Kristie Karima Burns MH, ND
addresses: Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Other warning bells:

Owns several groups and web sites, the two groups that I saw, appear to have started on 9-8-2001, with the above having the first letter in the file removed.

The info that I saw was rather basic, like Peppermint tea for stomach aches. Yes, it works.

She also runs an on-line herbal school ($300.00) and a muslim homeschool set up.

BUT, she also has many links to donate money for others tuition. It reads "Donate any amount to the "Student in need scholarship fund".

With as many sites as she has, it could be that she is collecting a lot of money. Or she may simply be doing what I might have been tempted to do 20 years ago, survive and share knowledge.

She is either real or fake.... In my opinion. What do you think?

Also owns: herbnhome as K. Burns to start and then later to the above name.

You are right about the meeting part, but what is odd is that, I think, the writer and subject are graduates of the University of Indonesia,where their field of study was computer science and technology. The writer (Siska) is announcing a meeting tomorrow for anyone interested in some sort of training that Arif Setiawan will be giving (demonstrating?)
Doesn't really seem to belong here. You would think they would put it under a more meaningful heading. There is however a company called Ixora with a branch in Singapore. Maybe that's how this message ended up here.

I couldn't find any connections to muslim extremists.

After researching Ixora for quite some time, I am convinced that the shrub, ixora, is not the subject matter. The plant has extremely limited medicinal uses.

As far as the site owner, I have no way of knowing who this person is, or where the money she collects in the name of charity goes. Don't know how to find out those things.