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To: tryon1ja

Thanks.

I went to a chain drug store and found nothing with noscapine. Behind the pharmacy counter, they never heard of it.


28 posted on 12/21/2008 2:53:57 AM PST by decimon
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To: decimon

At the following link there is more information. What I would do is write down the ingredients on the cough syrup and then Goggle it to see if it has Noscapine in it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noscapine

Noscapine (also known as Narcotine or Anarcotine) is a benzylisoquinoline alkaloid from plants of the Papaveraceae family, without significant painkilling properties. This agent is primarily used for its antitussive (cough-suppressing) effects. It has also been shown to have anticancer activity

More at link.


29 posted on 12/21/2008 11:45:50 AM PST by tryon1ja
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