Comment on Alternative medicine

• Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Well sure but you could use other household ingredient that aren’t contaminated with whatever might be in your soil.

  It was intentional that i said it’s one way they already make placebos in pill form.

  It entirely is only important if you care about hiring people and not just stealing from them

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  • HerbGrower@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    People eat clay sometimes. IIRC its a famine thing used to bulk out actual food to make it feel slightly more filling.

    Pills are tiny. Wtf do you think the soil is contaminated with?

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    • Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m sure they do but not without problems

      E coli, anthrax, Lead, mercury, oil, piss, shit, fungus, spores, mold, fucking anything really. You have no idea what’s gone into the ground or what it contains. Even if it’s “probably” safe why not use a much easier already approved product that has 0 risk associated with it

      Unless you are running it through some spectrum analyzer or whatever and have a process to then purify it, it’s a bad idea to just ingest something you dug up. And why bother not starting with already human grade ingestible material that you also probably have in your kitchen.

      Harmful substances are many orders of magnitude smaller than the tiniest pill.

      And no shovels required

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