• Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
        15·
        4 days ago

        I’ve done a few “homeopathic overdose” things, in front of homeopathy believers. It’s hilarious to see them immediately switch from “this is a super powerful medicine that you should take seriously” to “oh, it’s just SO safe you can’t overdose on it”, and then right around to “the fact that you took 200 sleeping pills and feel fine is because your energies are not aligned”

        • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works
          6·
          4 days ago

          I wouldn’t do that, but I’m fairly risk adverse when it comes to trying to correct people who are really invested in being wrong.

          Babies have died because of improper dilutions meaning the products had the actual substance in some amount, and downing an entire bottle might actually be dangerous for an adult.

      • davidgro@lemmy.world
        12·
        4 days ago

        Indeed. But I don’t trust their QA not to have a highly shaken glob of lead make it through to the sugar pill

  • mmddmm@lemm.ee
    131·
    5 days ago

    That one needs an explain-smbc…

    Anyway, looks like “green vitriol” = iron sulfate (so it’s enriched with iron), “spirit of hartshorn” = amonia (spoiled beans certainly release lots of this), “brimstone” = sulfur, “quicksilver” = mercury, and “aquafortis” = nitrates (on this context, but also nitric acid - afaik, our bodies can’t use nitrates for anything).

    (EDIT: yes, quicksilver is mercury, not lead.)

    • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      4 days ago

      Aquafortis is specifically nitric acid. It’s called that because it can dissolve “any” metal except for gold. Where “any” is “anything they knew about in the middle ages”.

      also, green vitriol is actually green. And blue vitriol, copper sulfate, is (surprise) blue. Copper sulfate is also what they put in antifreeze as a vomiting agent. I once had a single drop as a mistake, and it works REALLY well.