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  • For a serious answer, there’s a whole process you can follow. It’s basically going from minimum exposure up through eating a small bit of it and waiting multiple hours to days between steps. If any show signs of being irritating or worse, don’t eat/use that plant. It’s slow enough that if you had to rely on it for finding your sole source of food, you’re going to have a rough, hungry time.

    Something like:

    1. Rub a little on hardier parts of your skin, wait and see.
    2. Break up the plant to expose more of it and rub that on a small patch, wait and see.
    3. Try it on more sensitive skin areas, wait and see.
    4. Try holding a bit in your mouth, spit it out. Wait and see.
    5. Chew some up, spit it out and wait and see.
    6. Eat a tiny amount, wait and see.

    I’m probably forgetting some steps, too. It’s genuinely very slow.

    Worse yet, there are plenty of plants/fungi that would still fuck you up or kill you doing it this way, so the OP still has a point.










  • Magnesium is definitely a part of the conversation. It helps neurofunction and muscle signaling, along with cell metabolism. It helps quite a few processes in the body. I wish I remembered more of the processes specifically so I could be more accurate! Most electrolytes have some very important roles, including calcium far beyond building strong bones.

    One of many reasons I take multivitamins! Difficult to be too low on most anything that way. … and it supplements my poor diet choices…