Backyard Cyanide
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* It tastes like baking soda
* I've got a tremor [in my arm] and my breathing is slightly more rapid
Cyanide fortunately can't accumulate, so it's far less spooky than heavy metals (lead, chromium, mercury), perfluoroalkanes (PFAS), or some other strange organic molecules that might cause cancer.
A child could die with 5-6 whole bitter almonds, but they are really, really bitter so it's not that easy to accidentally do that.
On more than one occasion, I ate a box or two of those, so many that I had painful bellyaches and worse. It may not have been cyanide, but it was an instructive childhood lesson in "too much of a good thing".
It's scary to think how much knowledge of poisons was in our home with my father's profession, and mother's hobby of murder mysteries. When the 1982 adulteration scandal hit the news, I honestly had mixed feelings about the message it sent to consumers.
I've come to the conclusion that pain relief drugs are always a racket, and as my pain becomes exquisite in old age, I'm choosing to allow nature run its course, rather than go to great expense and effort to destroy my internal organs, by subscribing to them on amazon or something.
The American War on Drugs and ___ Epidemics are, in actuality, pandemics of pain, suffering, and people willing to pay any price.
Say again? How exactly is this so if it does really relieve certain types of pain?
Also, choosing to let nature run its course is usually a surefire path to needless misery with no benefit. Pain relief drugs don't necessarily destroy your organs. You're badly overblowing that and even if it were the case in a very gradual way, it could still be a better option than being destroyed anyhow and much more painfully by "nature running its course".
Odd take.
But they're called "-itis" because it falls into a category of "something we can treat" and so NSAIDs and analgesics are recommended/prescribed. "-itis" also implies "something that may eventually go away" so it doesn't entirely destroy the hope of a patient but keeps them as a good customer, at least in the drugstore. A physician who diagnoses things he can't treat could lose his practice, his license and his reputation. The practice of medicine is fundamentally where they match up a list of drugs in formulary with patients and symptoms. Unless the patient sees an ad and homes right in on what they want in the first place.
Any genuinely effective pain medication will be abused. Surely we've seen those commercials that tout how few Aleves you can take, compared to gob-stopping handfuls of other pills. Incurable chronic pain is a cash cow for OTC drug makers, because anyone who's that hard-up will studiously ignore side- or long-term- effects, in favor of seeking short-term relief from whatever ails ye. It's basically illegal to sell anything effective in a store; needs must regulate and gatekeep and extract maximum insurance money from them. And if you really read the directions on the label, many OTC meds will shout "DISCONTINUE USE AFTER X DAYS AND SEE A PHYSICIAN!!!" because why stay on the weaksauce?
Also, any substance/chemical that's available to consumers, and could be abused or used in suicide is deliberately adulterated/nerfed to make it really unpleasant/inconvenient/expensive.
Look at cancer: often someone with an incurable cancer will undergo arduous, horrific treatments that are really more guaranteed to sicken/kill them than the actual tumors. I'm always curious to know stats on who dies from chemotherapy rather than cancer.
I'm a Christian and I firmly believe in redemptive suffering, a topic on which my pastor wrote a dissertation, and he accompanied me in suffering, and there's no suffering that won't bring about a greater good. Nobody can relieve mine except Christ Jesus and his mother, and I will gladly meet them when the time is right.
I would email you but since you have no contact information on your profile I will just say I strongly urge you to seek medical advice, and maybe seek out a pastor at a mainstream church to discuss your situation.
I knew someone who nearly died and who held very similar non-mainstream medical and non-mainstream religious beliefs.
When they were in so much pain they couldn’t even stand up they finally agreed to be taken to a hospital where they lay on the floor of the emergency department. It turns out they had a near fatal infection in the spine, which was easily cured by antibiotics (after months of agony) and the suffering reduced by painkillers.
It’s a matter of personal belief but I don’t think there is any higher purpose to real suffering (suffering caused by illness or by other people).
I also don’t believe that you stand to lose or compromise your faith in any way by accepting medical treatment.
1. AStonesThrow has a right to be healthy, a right to time-tested and clinically-proven medical cures and healing, and a right to be fully informed when a treatment may in fact damage health, decrease functioning, or hasten death.
2. Doctors can dispense practical advice and order patients' good habits. Such as: "Rest awhile in bed for a few days. Your legs hurt because you walk around too much." "Take some time off work, because your flu/cold may be infectious or you're burned out." "Here's a common-sense organic diet that is tailored for you and will improve your health." 2a. That doctors would write down what they said verbally to me in the sacrosanct privacy of the exam room, so that I could understand and remember what they ordered/recommended, or, y'know, show it to my employer.
3. Doctors, clinics, hospitals serve the patients as customers, and every medical decision is made to prioritize the individual's good health and longevity.
4. Physicians are Biological Tech Support for the body. File a bug report, educate myself on biomedicine, document my findings, help him troubleshoot, and he will fix me up as good as new
5. Doctors (MD/DO) understand supplements and nutrition, and so if I regularly inform them with a complete list of self-treatments, they will take into account their effects on my system and adjust care accordingly. 5a. That supplements and alternative medical practice is somehow superior or preferrable over commonplace Western Medicine for people like AStonesThrow
6. Medical care is essentially free of cost and it's no problem to go make an appointment whenever I have an ouchie or boo-boo so a Candy-Striped Jasmine-Lavender-scented Nurse can Kiss it all Better and Reward me wif a Lolly-Pop from Pirate Treasure Chest.
All these faulty core beliefs conspired to give me a whoppin' case of Somatic Symptom Disorder, which still isn't notated in my charts or records, for some reason, and a visceral rage against the medical machine, and basically at this point I'm going reactionary and overcompensating.
I also recognize that for people whose Social Credit is nil or negative, we're not worth healing, rehabilitating, or putting back in the workforce, and the Good of the Many outweighs the needs of a few.
Dying is, by far, not the worst thing that can happen to a man. We all suffer in some way to some magnitude. In my firmly held traditional beliefs. Thank you for your public demonstration of concern.
I do agree with you that is is awful when the medical profession decide that a patient is too hard a problem or they lump them into some category which means 'no idea but maybe the patient is at fault' rather than admitting they simply don't have an answer or the time to find an answer.
Yes. That's what happens with a lot of sweets, and has absolutely nothing to do with "poisons".
Many things aren't good when consumed in massive quantities. All the way to water. Somewhere between 1-4l in an hour, hyponatremia kicks in. Goes all the way to falling into a coma. (Depends on body mass, amongst other things)
> It's scary to think how much knowledge of poisons was in our home with my father's profession, and mother's hobby of murder mysteries.
A simple AP chemistry class will do the same trick. Or just gardening at home. Or probably two seasons of House, M.D.
What's keeping us alive isn't lack of knowledge, but a functioning society where people shy away from murdering for their gain.
https://www.amazon.com/Apricot-California-Pesticide-Herbicid...
The AI-generated summary of reviews ends with:
> The seeds are also mentioned as having cancer-healing properties.
Click on the "Health benefits" link to get many more suggestions of their cancer curing properties. One person was consuming them every hour and started to have difficulty breathing. IMHO, Amazon probably shouldn't be helping to spread this kind of misinformation.
That's a Darwin Award candidate.
I see goats grazing in fields with hemlock. They'll give the hemlock a sniff and then avoid it while greedily eating everything else around it.
except grapes. They would arch up, intersect with his mouth, and... hit a tongue and roll off onto the floor.
turns out grapes (and raisins) are toxic to dogs. How they figure that out during the millisecond encounter with the tongue is mind-boggling.
oh, another one: one time when young I gave my dog a corncob to chew on, my theory being it would be like gnawing on a bone. and it he just ate it. it disappeared. we monitored him, he was fine, but scared me to death.
I grew up on a vineyard. Each harvest time the grapes would hang down heavily and almost touch the ground. Our pet dogs would park themselves beneath and greedily consume a whole bunch.
They would also scoff any dried grapes they found on the ground.
The worst effect seemed that they all would get noticeably pudgy during the season.
Except almonds.
Apparently, all wild almonds are deadly poisonous, and they couldn't figure out how they moved to the non-poisonous domestic variety.
A study published this week in the journal Science sequenced the almond genome and shows that a single genetic mutation "turned off" the ability to make the toxic compound thousands of years ago — a key step before humans could domesticate almonds.
"Wild almonds are bitter and lethal, even in tiny amounts, because [they have] this amygdalin," says study co-author Stefano Pavan, a professor in agricultural genetics and plant breeding at the University of Bari in Italy. (Pavan's primary co-author was Raquel Sánchez-Pérez, a senior biochemistry researcher at CEBAS-CSIC, an agricultural research center in Spain.) "This mutation is very important because it's the mutation that allowed almond domestication."
Mutation of a bHLH transcription factor allowed almond domestication - https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aav8197
Nigel has a whole series of edible chem runs. The pop rocks one is pretty good. His schtick is that he orders ridiculous equipment for all his videos.
He's worth a watch.
I don't think that there's much overlap in the scent profiles. Maybe a diluted rotten egg is similar to that smell of making black powder as a child, but not much.
Storytime, please?
Not much to say. Couldn't buy gunpowder as a 12-year-old, but the drug store would sell you saltpeter (KNO4?) if you said your mom was using it to cure ham and sulfur (I think it was used on wounds) and it was easy to make charcoal and grind it to a powder.
Mix the three together and stuff it into a small closed-end tube made from newspaper and scotch tape, with a piece of powder-infused cotton string for a fuze and you had yourself a rocket.
Not like almonds at all.
Otherwise known as Muriatic Acid when used in pools, hydrochloric is an aqueous solution of HCl gas, which is a very acidic gas, highly soluble in water. It is usually supplied in its saturated solution of approximately 37% concentrated HCl gas dissolved in water. It's a smoker, as soon as you open the bottle of concentrate, vapors of HCl begin to escape and if you get a whiff it's pretty rough.
HCN can be supplied in gas form (pressure cylinders) if needed, but most cyanide is supplied as a solid salt like NaCN or KCN, which are "basically" non-acidic forms of cyanide.
These crystals can be dissolved in water (makes a very toxic solution) without the release of very much HCN gas, but the solution must be maintained in a relatively alkaline condition, otherwise if it is acidified the solution will liberate HCN and it smells like an acidic gas alright.
A little bit like HCl but even rougher.
Well in my back yard during college there was a big cherry laurel and once the little fruits were ripe it would be infested with birds who were wolfing them down. It's hot even in north Florida and after a while some of the fruits would get fermented to a certain percentage of alcohol. The birds were really partying then until it got to the point they would fall out of the tree drunk.