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• kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They contain the mildly to moderately toxic alkaloid tomatine lol, you’re gonna become a medical case study if you smoke the leaves.

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  • JayJay@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is from wikipedia so take it witha grain of salt, but you’d have to ingest over half a kilogram to get toxic and not lethal doses so as long as you smoke the tomato leaves in moderation, test away!

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    • kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah it’s not super well researched, but ingestion and inhalation dosages can be extremely different. Hence you’d likely be the subject of a case study as it would be a significant addition to the medical literature on tomatine toxicity in humans.

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• modus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s tomacco.

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• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  eggplant does. they’re cousins of tobacco.

  actually, you can cure and boil eggplant foliage to brew a nicotine based pest spray.

  though, you’re better off using tobacco instead.

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