Chemistry in witchcraft... witchcraft can be kinda cool but scary. With all those potions and stuff, it messes up one's body flow. Cardiac glycerides affect the heart in reducing heart rate, regularize heart rhythm and strengthening its heartbeat. To play with your heart isn't funny because it serves as your life source. These molecules that affect the heart are not only found in plant herbs but also in animals. Due to witches' potions, they create nasty stuff to alter one's brain. That's why i guess people torment witches back then. moreover, they say that demons were involved making it a scarier thing. Chemistry reached a new dimension here haha... anyway.. it's sick to think that those potions contain toad body parts; moreover toads were used to creat poison arrows. The bufotoxin is the active component of the venom. iits structure is simillar to steroids and wow buffers and poisons are the same in strucure haha.. these bufotoxins are cardiac poison that may lead to death. Going back to Alkaloids, alkaloids were used to affect the central nervous system. i wonder how it changes a human way of thinking.. but with our daily use of alkaloids humans are said to ingest natural insecticides and pesticides so now i think i'm an insect being sprayed by an insecticide everyday. Moving on.. humans consume 1.5 grams of natural insecticides on average. Im surprised that these alkaloids are toxic so im amazed by how the immune system works. Socrates was killed by an alkaloid namely the hemlock plant and mandrakes (contains) alkaloids restore sexual vitality. ALkaloids can be weird, but i guess that for every function of molecule it has a specific explanation.
This chapter deals with deadly and very useful molecules that affected the lives of many people, whether they were the ones benefiting from them or they were the ones dying from or because of them. Many innocent people, mostly poor elderly women who were herbalist, were executed because people were falsely accusing them of being witches, using their powers in order to inflict harm or cause damage upon members of their community, and the number one reason was of the supposedly affiliation with the devil. The types of events in which people tended to blame these women were when epidemics or natural disasters occurred among the communities; also when a person “witnessed” an act or even a ritual done by the alleged witch. Even though herbalists are experts in plants to treat diseases sometimes such substances became poisonous if handled wrong or given the incorrect dosage. For example, in foxgloves a molecule called cardiac glycoside is used mainly in the treatment of cardiac failure. The only group of molecules that doomed women all over Europe was alkaloids. They are naturally occurring chemical compounds containing simple nitrogen atoms. Some alkaloids are extremely toxic, but there are a variety of alkaloids that function as medicine, such as ephedrine used as a decongestant and bronchodilator and reserpine for high blood pressure. What people always seem to associate with witches is their “ability” to fly. Alkaloids play a big role in this myth. It is said that they made ointments from mandrake, belladonna, and henbane to be able to make their trips to sabbats. The flights were all delusions from the hallucinatory alkaloids. Another group that was responsible for the numerous deaths is the ergot fungus. This type of fungus contaminates rye-when eaten resulting in ergotism. Event like such was enough evidence for someone to be accused of evil deeds.
WOW, I ALWAYS THOUGHT, ACTS SUCH AS WITCHCRAFT, WELL JUST MYTHS AND TAILS....WOW....IM SHOCKED.TOADS WERE ONCE USED FOR POISON?!?! TOADS, I WOULD UNDERSTAND IF A SNAKE WAS USED, BUT TOADS?!?! ITS COOL, THAT SIMPLE HERBS, COMBINED AND MADE INTO "POTIONS" CAN SAVE OR TAKE AWAY A PERSON(S) LIFE. AMAZING, I THING WE SHOULD START PRACTICING WITCHCRAFT, IT COULD REALLY CHANGE THE WAY OF LIFE.
Chemistry in witchcraft... witchcraft can be kinda cool but scary. With all those potions and stuff, it messes up one's body flow. Cardiac glycerides affect the heart in reducing heart rate, regularize heart rhythm and strengthening its heartbeat. To play with your heart isn't funny because it serves as your life source. These molecules that affect the heart are not only found in plant herbs but also in animals. Due to witches' potions, they create nasty stuff to alter one's brain. That's why i guess people torment witches back then. moreover, they say that demons were involved making it a scarier thing. Chemistry reached a new dimension here haha... anyway.. it's sick to think that those potions contain toad body parts; moreover toads were used to creat poison arrows. The bufotoxin is the active component of the venom. iits structure is simillar to steroids and wow buffers and poisons are the same in strucure haha.. these bufotoxins are cardiac poison that may lead to death. Going back to Alkaloids, alkaloids were used to affect the central nervous system. i wonder how it changes a human way of thinking.. but with our daily use of alkaloids humans are said to ingest natural insecticides and pesticides so now i think i'm an insect being sprayed by an insecticide everyday. Moving on.. humans consume 1.5 grams of natural insecticides on average. Im surprised that these alkaloids are toxic so im amazed by how the immune system works. Socrates was killed by an alkaloid namely the hemlock plant and mandrakes (contains) alkaloids restore sexual vitality. ALkaloids can be weird, but i guess that for every function of molecule it has a specific explanation.
ReplyDeleteThis chapter deals with deadly and very useful molecules that affected the lives of many people, whether they were the ones benefiting from them or they were the ones dying from or because of them. Many innocent people, mostly poor elderly women who were herbalist, were executed because people were falsely accusing them of being witches, using their powers in order to inflict harm or cause damage upon members of their community, and the number one reason was of the supposedly affiliation with the devil. The types of events in which people tended to blame these women were when epidemics or natural disasters occurred among the communities; also when a person “witnessed” an act or even a ritual done by the alleged witch. Even though herbalists are experts in plants to treat diseases sometimes such substances became poisonous if handled wrong or given the incorrect dosage. For example, in foxgloves a molecule called cardiac glycoside is used mainly in the treatment of cardiac failure. The only group of molecules that doomed women all over Europe was alkaloids. They are naturally occurring chemical compounds containing simple nitrogen atoms. Some alkaloids are extremely toxic, but there are a variety of alkaloids that function as medicine, such as ephedrine used as a decongestant and bronchodilator and reserpine for high blood pressure. What people always seem to associate with witches is their “ability” to fly. Alkaloids play a big role in this myth. It is said that they made ointments from mandrake, belladonna, and henbane to be able to make their trips to sabbats. The flights were all delusions from the hallucinatory alkaloids. Another group that was responsible for the numerous deaths is the ergot fungus. This type of fungus contaminates rye-when eaten resulting in ergotism. Event like such was enough evidence for someone to be accused of evil deeds.
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ReplyDeleteWOW, I ALWAYS THOUGHT, ACTS SUCH AS WITCHCRAFT, WELL JUST MYTHS AND TAILS....WOW....IM SHOCKED.TOADS WERE ONCE USED FOR POISON?!?! TOADS, I WOULD UNDERSTAND IF A SNAKE WAS USED, BUT TOADS?!?! ITS COOL, THAT SIMPLE HERBS, COMBINED AND MADE INTO "POTIONS" CAN SAVE OR TAKE AWAY A PERSON(S) LIFE. AMAZING, I THING WE SHOULD START PRACTICING WITCHCRAFT, IT COULD REALLY CHANGE THE WAY OF LIFE.