[Hop A Long Cassidy]

The Japanese food, Natto, provides a similar benefit. You DON'T want to take Natto and your medicine together as you'll be increasing the strength. You can find out more about Natto at wikipedia and other health sites:

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

Basically it has the same or similar active ingredients. They say drinking Scotch and chewing tobacco are "acquired tastes." Natto is closer to the chewing tobacco side of things. It looks rotten and tastes rotten but it's doable. You can buy them pre-packaged at Japanese (sometimes Chinese) stores. And, you can make your own, if you're up to it. I have no idea how you control the quantity of natto-kinase (one of the two active ingredients). Natto has been recommended in several health newsletters.

I hope Cheney recovers from this. We need adults at the White House.

[reagan_fanatic]

Thanks - I wasn't aware of Natto or its benefits.

I've been on Coumadin for about 5 years now. I remember very well just how excruciatingly painful that abdomenal clot was - it was like getting stabbed in the gut and leaving the knife in. I suffered through 4 days of hell before the Doctors finally found the culprit. Thankfully, they also put me on a Morphine drip at that time to alleviate the pain. All I can say is - THANK YOU GOD FOR MORPHINE!!

That stuff literally kept me from going mad.