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As we head into Halloween Spooky season a reminder from your friendly Hobbit Witch...
Charcoal is not food. I don't care how cool black coloured food or drinks are... charcoal isn't a food dye babes.
It is poison control... it will fuck up your meds, screw with your digestion, and can cause intestinal blockages.
So please, please don't do it.
@MsHearthWitch
*blinks* People do that?! I guess I learned something new today. Not to not consume charcoal, just that others might try to lol
@Cassandra_Complex @MsHearthWitch I've also seen it advertised as a way to "cleanse" harmful things from your body, you know, a wellness culture thing. And while it will in fact cleanse many things from your body, it will also cleanse things you NEED from your body 😬 this is especially dangerous since many of the peoole who get lured in by supplements are sick and disabled folks. Some supplements are lies, some work, and some work too well or do shit you don't expect. 🤨
@secretsloth @Cassandra_Complex Oooo don't get me started on cleanses and detoxes. It's not good for my blood pressure 😡
1000000000% agree about preying on sick and disabled folks and then fucking them up even more.
@MsHearthWitch @Cassandra_Complex I definitely know some OTC remedies that work as well as or better than Rx stuff, but like, you have to do research and know what you're doing, there are interactions with one potentially and the other you can only use a handful of times a year because it WILL wreck your liver if you use it all the time. I mean, so will a lot of things, but, you know. Moderation. I think some folks get too caught up in "it's natural *and therefore benign*" uh nope.
@Cassandra_Complex very popular especially this time of year. People claim it as a natural way to turn a food or drink black and while that's true, natural doesn't mean safe or harmless.
Nature still has chemicals and some chemicals are a bad time!
@MsHearthWitch
I'm floored, but I suppose I get how somebody might think "well jee, my toothpaste has charcoal in it, it must be safe to eat." But I hear you on overly trusting natural things. I often have to remind people that poison ivy is natural too, but it's still to be avoided.
@Cassandra_Complex As a herbalist it's really frustrating... lemme tell you lol.
It's like people have forgotten that poisons are a thing also? SO many plants will kill you dead, slow, fast, painful, you name it. Nature gives no effs.
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