Unfortunately as far as I know, cilantros' biochemistry has not been studied yet. I haven't been able to find any data of its mechanisms. I decided to try it anyway. I am about eight years postamalgamremoval, but no improvement was felt after removal. After several years I returned back to the amalgampoisoining theory and understood that lack of results from removal was because the mercury was tightly bound in my nervous system. I had continously used vitamins and minerals and eaten a healthy diet postremoval so I knew by now that my body tissue levels were pretty low. I decided to try DMSA and ALA, but no matter the dose, I just felt much worse and it became unberable. I decided to try cilantro. This had its side-effects too, such as depression and fatigue, but not the long list of side-effects which other chelation agents gave me. I used cilantro one week on and one week off, and within four months I noticed tremendous improvement intellectually, memory and concentrationwise. I have prevouisly tried all sorts of supplements, alternative therapies and so forth, but none gave me the results as cilantro managed.

In my opinion I would however not have used cilantro straight after amalgamremoval, when body tissue stores are still high. This for fear of redistribution. Cilantro seems to match ALA qualities as in that it mobilizes in the nervous system, I therefore feel the best protocol is to use it with a binder, such as DMSA for safe removal. I know from experience that cilantro does work, but at the same time I feel it is most important to use it at the correct time after amalgamremoval. I would personally use a vitamin/mineral protocol after removal to reduce body tissue levels and after about six months or so, if detoxing pathways have been functioning, I would start DMSA (frequent chelation protocol of course) for deeper body tissue chelation. After another six months I would have tried ALA combined with DMSA to start brain chelation. After six months to a year I would introduce cilantro for final improvements.........

This is not the scientific data you wanted, but I thought I'd post my experience anyway <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />