>Simon J. Coles: I received a reprint from a British publication identified >only as JACM with an article by Dan Beth-El entitled "Magic beans? Natural >sources of L-Dopa in the treatment of Parkinsons Disease." It describes From what I remember this flared up in the UK a few years ago (hence my memory is a bit fuzzy). Someone published something in a newspaper somewhere, and the PDS (UK) had a flood of people asking about "the magic beans". From what I remember there is little or no evidence to suggest these beans help. PDS did publish an article in their newsletter trying to calm everything down. I'll see if I can find the original article, and post it here. Simon [log in to unmask] --