"Wayne Boatwright" <wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com> wrote:>
> Paregoric was always in our medicine cabinet when I was growing up and was
> also in mine as an adult. It was never abused, used only very
> occasionally
> for serious upset stomach or toothache. For upset stomach, we took 1
> teaspoon stirred into a small glass of tepid water.
>
> --
> Wayne Boatwright
> __________________________________________________
>
> If at first you do succeed -- try to hide your
> astonishment.
>

Just as most medicines were (and are) poisons if taken in sufficient
quantities, opiates are therepeutic in small quantities but deadly in
larger quantities.

Belladonna was a much-used laxative. Yes, the same stuff that
surfaced as a powerful hallucinogen in the 1960s. People with
the mindset "if a little is good then a lot must be even better" got
into trouble with the stuff. People died from "laxative overdose."

Stop laughing. I am sure it was not funny!

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"Do or Do not, there is no 'TRY.'" --Yoda



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