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To: Red Badger

Years ago, back in the 1980s during the “generic” food craze, I found a bottle of cough syrup for kids at the local grocery store. It’s only active ingredient was “Extract of Belladonna”. I did not buy it.


6 posted on 08/26/2016 8:21:20 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Well, that would stop a cough.................and a heartbeat..............


8 posted on 08/26/2016 8:21:56 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Belladonna actually does have medicinal properties. Obviously, you want to be VERY careful with the dosage!


10 posted on 08/26/2016 8:27:17 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Poison is in the dose. Belladonna in a cough syrup is safer to use then the children's Tylenol that you probably would have given to the child without a second thought.

Everything on planet earth can kill you if you take enough of it.

And most things are beneficial in the right dose.

Which is why this "deadliest garden" is as much a joke as "deadliest drug store".

11 posted on 08/26/2016 8:35:34 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

My only regret from the “Generic Age” is not buying a six pack of B-E-E-R brand beer and saving it. You would never want to drink it!


18 posted on 08/26/2016 9:15:19 AM PDT by gr8eman (Don't waste your energy trying to understand commies. Use it to defeat them!)
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