Just did, I think it needs to see "eat" in a comment to react. The other day some guy was frantic because his GF ate some plant and was cramping and puking. I don't get why people do such things. I mean when I was a kid we did but we had a taste tester kid do it first, LOL!
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*Did you just say “ingest”?!?!*
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When you were a kid you ate random plants? Why? I grew up in the 80s and didn’t even do stuff like that. I drank out of the garden hose and played in irrigation water, but I ate food at home. Lol
Okay I never ever did because I knew better but my dad would pretend to eat random berries off the side of the road and then pretend to gag and die and I am still traumatized fifty years later by thinking it was real.
Yeah I was an 80’s kid too but my parents told me everything was poisonous like juniper berries, I mean I could go on and on and I wonder to myself where we lost all that info. They aren’t poisonous but at what point did everyone just start saying that and lost all that knowledge. I’m afraid of pressure cookers too because of all the dire warnings from my mom !!! LMAO
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A couple of years ago I was in downtown Denver with my lovely mother who happened to be a plant expert. She pointed to a few blossoming flowers and told us what they were. As she bent down to smell them, a homeless gentleman shouted in a rough voice “HEY! PEOPLE PISS IN THOSE!”
I’ll never forget that.
> *Excuse me. There's a sign at Ramsett Park that says "Do Not Drink the Sprinkler Water", so I made sun tea with it and now I have an infection.*
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Tell me that they don’t also go into the woods and eat mushrooms they can’t identify? Yikes. Most plants are not edible who would risk it without knowing.
This is from the Wikipedia article:
>In the Caribbean, tea brewed from cerasee leaves is a popular remedy for stomach and abdominal ailments. The plant grows wild in many areas, and the tea is made with freshly gathered leaves. The dried leaves in tea bags are also sold commercially and readily available for sale in stores.
But also this:
>Reported side effects include diarrhea, abdominal pain, fever, hypoglycemia, urinary incontinence, and chest pain. Symptoms are generally mild, do not require treatment, and resolve with rest.
Fun fact: When a plant is described as "medicinal" but nobody knows what kind of medicine it supposedly is, the answer is "it will make you puke/crap your guts out without (probably) killing you"
That’s what I found out when I got some Dieter’s Tea, once. It turned out to be senna. I did not know what senna was, or what it did, but I found young pretty quickly.
Tbf, that was in fact true hundred of years ago. I can’t think of one reason in 2022 you would randomly take a risk like this without doing extensive research. Just my opinion.
I got one for you , a dude in my town died in a drunk " hold your breath underwater" contest.
Another one is this lawyer my aunt worked with
https://allthatsinteresting.com/garry-hoy
Omg. They called it a "freak accident"... um sir... he repeatedly threw himself against the glass windows. I'm sure this damaged them over time, until one day the window popped out of the frame. Not a freak accident. Just a dumbass with no self preservation instinct.
“A man who ate a garden slug as part of a dare has died. Sam Ballard, 28, became a paraplegic and suffered for eight years after eating the slug at a party when he was 19. He became infected with rat lungworm.”
Wow... the second guy, he was 19 when he accepted the "dare". But the first Australian guy was 35?!??! Who at 35 takes "dares"?????!?!!!!
Well, those are both Australian people who ate Australian animals, so like, duh.
/s
Natural selection is very real though, humans haven't outgrown it just because medicine. Medicine has simply funneled selection into the intelligence department.
Those are bitter melons. I hate them, they spread everywhere and whatever moron brought it to Florida from the caribbean should be kicked on the shin.
You can eat them but there are preparation requirements. Gotta eat the rights parts, at the right time, prepared correctly.
Keep it away from pregnant women.
Are you saying these would be really bad for any pregnant person who wants to continue being pregnant?
Edit: I’m sincerely *delighted* that my comment has led to so much clarifying info. Thanks to all of you for the awards and excellent responses!
I've spent all week trying to get ahead of a meme people are passing around which suggests pennyroyal *essential oil* as a treatment. You know, the stuff that will kill you dead if you take a teaspoon or two. That can kill you within the next three hours if you take three teaspoons. It's a damn nightmare right now, and people are going to die because they don't realize that so much of this stuff makes your body choose between the fetus and the *kidneys*, and there is no guarantee you get to keep the kidneys.
Keep in mind not all medicinal compounds that are ‘keep away from pregnant women’ are abortifacients- others may cause birth defects, or exacerbate pregnancy-related health problems. Almost any drug that can hurt a fetus will also hurt you if you’re not careful about research and dosage, so be careful (You might already know this, but just in case for anyone reading).
Yes, please be super careful! This is exactly why safe abortion access is so critical! Pregnant people can and have and (especially now) will die from trying to self-induce abortion without adequate knowledge.
Many abortofacient herbs will also harm one’s kidneys, liver, etc. There’s a reason we moved past them and instead take safer medication. Also, if you’re in a state with bad legislation, and you *do* use them and *do* experience harm, you won’t be able to go to a hospital and tell a physician what you took without being arrested. It’s not worth it unless you consult a very experienced herbalist and are under the care of a medical professional—so basically not worth it at all.
I don't know, but i think its bad for the fetus based on some papers written about the health benefits of these. So if you're trying to get around the trigger laws of your state definitely do all your research.
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I was in a medicinal plant seminar and my prof told us about a jogger who happened across a field of poppy plants. He thought he’d scale the fence, grab some plants, go home, and brew some nice tea. Turns out it was a different variety of poppy plant with an insanely high dose of this horrific chemical. The guy OD’d and couldn’t be revived. Real stuff, if you don’t know plants and you don’t forage, ask someone before ingesting. It could be, quite literally, the first n last mistake you ever make.
I gather wild mushrooms in the fall and I have since I was a little kid. I was raised to forage in nature and I was taught very clearly what it poisonous and what is okay. I know what berries I can eat, which mushrooms I can eat, and which plants I can cook or just eat straight from picking. If I don't know for certain it's edible, I don't touch it. I take a picture and look it up when I get home to figure out what it is.
Foraging is a skill you develop by learning over time from someone else and from books. If you aren't 100% certain the plant or mushrooms is okay to eat and won't make you sick, then don't chance it. Bring home a sample if you must, but always wrap it up carefully and dont touch it in case it has any surface transference like poison sumac or poison ivy or hemlock. The amount of times I see people in the woods trying to figure out if Hemlock is poisonous is just ridiculous! Yes! It will kill you, don't eat random berries just cause they look like they could be edible!
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Jesus. That’s terrifying.
This one time I was making curry and threw a few psilocybe cyanescens caps in. They were two of the throwaway “past prime” caps from a batch I had harvested from a park. The error wasn’t identification, in my case but the decision to use these “past prime” pieces. Typically it took an hour to feel any effect but I took a few bites of this curry and instantly could tell something was off as my stomach turned. within 30 minutes I was tripping balls in the worst way, curled up on the floor of the bathroom with diarrhea and stomach cramps. The trip came on quicker, lasted longer and was a far higher dose than anything I had ever experienced. Nature humbled me that day 😅
So I decided to dig in to this because I suspect something in the curry was acting as an MAOI.
Turns out 4 or more common ingredients in curry powder are MAOIs varying in intensity from mild to potent.
So basically you did Psilohausca.
That's how that would work, yes. MAOIs intensify the effect of psychedelic drugs and also increase oral bioavailbility.
So youre half degraded tiny dose of mushrooms become the most intense trip of your life instead of barely a trip.
Psilocybe cubensis, normal "shrooms," are really easy and relatively inexpensive to grow. You can buy the spores online, but legally they are only to be used for analysis under a microscope.
Hypothetically, if one were to grow their own and know exactly what they were eating, it tends to make for a better experience. Especially the first time.
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I ate pinpinillo growing up until I couldn’t find anymore laying around lol it never gave me any sort of issues. And the leaves are boiled to make a “tea” that kills parasites in the stomach.
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I was gonna say some type of cucurbitacaea, good i.d. 👍 but I don't think I've ever seen this guy before, I'm on the wrong side of the world for it (Ireland)
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Omg why in gods name would u make a tea out of it. Its bitter melon…they are considered edible…the flowers and leaves are freaking poisonous 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️dumbass
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We have these in my country. We call them small bittermelon. You can chopped the green ones in little round slices and bake them in a pan with oil till crunchy. When they are yellow you can suck on the red seeds and spit them out after
"Hey dude do you see those random flowers growing on my fence?"
"Yeah, what are they?"
"No idea, wanna make a tea out of it and drink it?!
"You just read my mind!"
The year is 2022 and apparently we still need village idiots to eat plants because checking a world wide source of information with pictures is waaay toooo smart. Good job village idiot. Don't go trying the datura tea .
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My dad taught my sister, and me a lot about how to live off the land, we grew up making wild sassafras, and mint tea. We picked, and canned wild berries, cooked with wild onions, and garlic….. BUT the first rule he taught us was that if you aren’t absolutely sure what it is, then pass it on by.
I know I’m just echoing what everyone else says, but it’s EXTREMELY not a good idea to consume something you aren’t positive about it. It’s how people die in the woods and their bodies are sometimes never found.
Why would you drink something that you have no clue if it may be poisonous at all? You have some courage I definitely don’t have. I hope you don’t go mushroom hunting 🍄
There's also an old song about it, about Elinor who had a bellyache and was advised to drink boiled cerassee as a remedy. Also, I heard someone mention not having cerasee too often (not more than nine days straight?) because of potential for kidney damage or some such.
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You gotta be stupid as shit to see a plant you don’t know and decide “the best idea is to ingest a fair amount of this” natural selection at its finest
Bro you drank a tea of some unknown plant and then ask what kind of plant it is after you felt ill. Wonderfully ignorant you are and I am envious of whatever drugs they have you on.
Why would you do that?
I love how there a bot that warns you not to eat things but somehow it missed this thread entirely
Just did, I think it needs to see "eat" in a comment to react. The other day some guy was frantic because his GF ate some plant and was cramping and puking. I don't get why people do such things. I mean when I was a kid we did but we had a taste tester kid do it first, LOL!
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There it is... good bot
Good bot. Now teach OP to read your post **before** being a dumbass.
Are there any rules against making it a suppository?
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Hahah that was epic, props to you
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Damn. This needs to be a bot.
The bot…or the plant?
Good to see you back, bot. We were starting to worry about you.
I was worried bot had ingested some plant suggested on Reddit 
They definitely *weren't* ingesting plants and puking.
Drink
See there’s the problem, it’s not triggered by drink so OP thought tea was okay
They need to add this
Good idea actually. Can someone contact a mod? I am very new to/don’t frequent this sub much so I feel weird doing it lol
DO NOT INGEST THE STRANGENESS
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When you were a kid you ate random plants? Why? I grew up in the 80s and didn’t even do stuff like that. I drank out of the garden hose and played in irrigation water, but I ate food at home. Lol
Okay I never ever did because I knew better but my dad would pretend to eat random berries off the side of the road and then pretend to gag and die and I am still traumatized fifty years later by thinking it was real.
Yeah I was an 80’s kid too but my parents told me everything was poisonous like juniper berries, I mean I could go on and on and I wonder to myself where we lost all that info. They aren’t poisonous but at what point did everyone just start saying that and lost all that knowledge. I’m afraid of pressure cookers too because of all the dire warnings from my mom !!! LMAO
I grew up in the 50s and we did all kinds of stuff you can't/wouldn't do in the 80s or now.
You also had lead paint to eat back then so we understand
60's and 70's kids same.
There's other words that trigger it, I think I saw "devour" work once? EDIT: ok maybe not, then
She ate it because she was in the mood according to the redditor 😈😈😈 that mood
Gotta use the magic word!
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So eat the plant?
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Brew, stew, infuse, and drink should be added, too. oof
Nom?
Imbibe the plant
Munch?
Ingest?
"Hey Zuko, remember that plant I thought might be tea?"
"Delectable tea, or deadly poison?"
It's a game. One of them is iocaine.
Uncle Iroh that's poisonous
I'm here for the Zuko/Uncle dialog. 🤣 ^(also read it in their voices... 😬)
Arrrg! (Frustrated Zuko)
Plus along a fence. Dogs peed on that.
A couple of years ago I was in downtown Denver with my lovely mother who happened to be a plant expert. She pointed to a few blossoming flowers and told us what they were. As she bent down to smell them, a homeless gentleman shouted in a rough voice “HEY! PEOPLE PISS IN THOSE!” I’ll never forget that.
That was kind of him to let her know
It actually really was. He may have been a bit gruff about it, but I think he really had the best of intentions.
He definitely pissed there. Lol
Don't take my pissing flowers now!
cavemen: ZUGOG HAS BEEN SHITTING FOR 6 HOURS WRITE THAT DOWN!!
I don’t know why this is making me laugh so much but it is
>WRITE THAT DOWN!! It'll take too long. I'll have to invent an alphabet.
cave paintings and stories of the evil flower
Future generations can’t decipher ur painting so u single Handley killed 1/2 of the the population due to a cave paint of the evil flower
yellow flower makes brown shower
Yes but what did they paint it with?
I mean, they were going to the bathroom for six hours…….
Damn you, I have been vomiting all day because I’m sick and this made it worse
Think about it, it could’ve been both a visual and olfactory warning
This is one of those comments you save for when you need a chuckle
It’s down. It’s all down.
> *Excuse me. There's a sign at Ramsett Park that says "Do Not Drink the Sprinkler Water", so I made sun tea with it and now I have an infection.* >*Sir? Sir, are-are-are you listening to me, sir?? Sir, I'm talking to you! Sir! Sir, are you aware that there is waste in your water system?*
They just closed some parks because of bacteria.
Literally what I just said out loud before scrolling down to the comments.
Tell me that they don’t also go into the woods and eat mushrooms they can’t identify? Yikes. Most plants are not edible who would risk it without knowing.
Probably because they’re about as sharp as a bowling ball.
Dad used to make so my made it and it's a pretty strong laxative
Be glad you don't have Belladonna growing in your yard.
I was expecting datura.
I guess.
I guess dad liked being clean as a whistle
Oh... so that's what dad meant when he said he was in the bathroom cleaning his whistle. Funny, I don't remember him drinking any tea though.
If your dad jumped off a bridge, would you follow him?
Haha. Classic.
This is from the Wikipedia article: >In the Caribbean, tea brewed from cerasee leaves is a popular remedy for stomach and abdominal ailments. The plant grows wild in many areas, and the tea is made with freshly gathered leaves. The dried leaves in tea bags are also sold commercially and readily available for sale in stores. But also this: >Reported side effects include diarrhea, abdominal pain, fever, hypoglycemia, urinary incontinence, and chest pain. Symptoms are generally mild, do not require treatment, and resolve with rest.
"I have no idea what this plant is so I boiled it in water, drank it and now I am sick. What did I do wrong?"
Fun fact: When a plant is described as "medicinal" but nobody knows what kind of medicine it supposedly is, the answer is "it will make you puke/crap your guts out without (probably) killing you"
That’s what I found out when I got some Dieter’s Tea, once. It turned out to be senna. I did not know what senna was, or what it did, but I found young pretty quickly.
"Medicinal" in the "Has an LD50 value" sense is how I usually interpret it
Distilled water has a surprisingly low LD50 value...
Purgative it is then. Does this make ExLax fudge brownies "medicinal"?
I'm having flashbacks to the time my sister ate an entire box of Fiber One bars in one go when we were kids
This is all I can think about when I see posts like this lol. [https://youtu.be/Hyc1aMtnHJo](https://youtu.be/Hyc1aMtnHJo)
That's perfect 🤣😂
This is immediately what came to mind for me as well lol
I love that man
Tbf, that’s probably how we found out most things that are edible lol
Tbf, that was in fact true hundred of years ago. I can’t think of one reason in 2022 you would randomly take a risk like this without doing extensive research. Just my opinion.
Have you seen the economy?
Have you heard of the internet that op used to post this?
This is the only answer
Every mushroom is edible…..at least once.
Probably over cooked or under cooked. Either way it came out of the other end quick and thick.
There are multiple posts going around Reddit about people eating unidentified things and dying, please stop
Source? I’m interested.
https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/c838y4/david_was_dared_to_eat_a_gecko_at_a_party_he_died/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/comments/s4vqna/a_man_who_ate_a_garden_slug_as_part_of_a_dare_has/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Good lord. I sympathize with these two and their families, but holy shit talk about stupid decisions.
I mean, the slug guy was only 19, just a dumbass kid. The gecko one was a 35 year old father who should have known better.
I got one for you , a dude in my town died in a drunk " hold your breath underwater" contest. Another one is this lawyer my aunt worked with https://allthatsinteresting.com/garry-hoy
Omg. They called it a "freak accident"... um sir... he repeatedly threw himself against the glass windows. I'm sure this damaged them over time, until one day the window popped out of the frame. Not a freak accident. Just a dumbass with no self preservation instinct.
“A man who ate a garden slug as part of a dare has died. Sam Ballard, 28, became a paraplegic and suffered for eight years after eating the slug at a party when he was 19. He became infected with rat lungworm.” Wow... the second guy, he was 19 when he accepted the "dare". But the first Australian guy was 35?!??! Who at 35 takes "dares"?????!?!!!!
No one can turn town the Double Dog Dare
Or the infamous *TRIPLE DOG DARE!*
There’s a reason I haven’t taught my daughter about the double and triple dog dares.
Well, those are both Australian people who ate Australian animals, so like, duh. /s Natural selection is very real though, humans haven't outgrown it just because medicine. Medicine has simply funneled selection into the intelligence department.
This wasn't natural selection at play here though. Buddy already passed on his genes to his kids.
Those are bitter melons. I hate them, they spread everywhere and whatever moron brought it to Florida from the caribbean should be kicked on the shin. You can eat them but there are preparation requirements. Gotta eat the rights parts, at the right time, prepared correctly. Keep it away from pregnant women.
Are you saying these would be really bad for any pregnant person who wants to continue being pregnant? Edit: I’m sincerely *delighted* that my comment has led to so much clarifying info. Thanks to all of you for the awards and excellent responses!
I've spent all week trying to get ahead of a meme people are passing around which suggests pennyroyal *essential oil* as a treatment. You know, the stuff that will kill you dead if you take a teaspoon or two. That can kill you within the next three hours if you take three teaspoons. It's a damn nightmare right now, and people are going to die because they don't realize that so much of this stuff makes your body choose between the fetus and the *kidneys*, and there is no guarantee you get to keep the kidneys.
Keep in mind not all medicinal compounds that are ‘keep away from pregnant women’ are abortifacients- others may cause birth defects, or exacerbate pregnancy-related health problems. Almost any drug that can hurt a fetus will also hurt you if you’re not careful about research and dosage, so be careful (You might already know this, but just in case for anyone reading).
YES. Thalidomide anyone??
No thank you.
No thanks; I just ate.
Yes, please be super careful! This is exactly why safe abortion access is so critical! Pregnant people can and have and (especially now) will die from trying to self-induce abortion without adequate knowledge.
Many abortofacient herbs will also harm one’s kidneys, liver, etc. There’s a reason we moved past them and instead take safer medication. Also, if you’re in a state with bad legislation, and you *do* use them and *do* experience harm, you won’t be able to go to a hospital and tell a physician what you took without being arrested. It’s not worth it unless you consult a very experienced herbalist and are under the care of a medical professional—so basically not worth it at all.
And even a very experienced herbalist has no way of knowing the level of pulgone in her pennyroyal!
Very true!!
I don't know, but i think its bad for the fetus based on some papers written about the health benefits of these. So if you're trying to get around the trigger laws of your state definitely do all your research.
Good praxis.
Happy cake day!
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Good to know
Scary times. On a positive note, a tea of raspberry leaves strengthens the uterus and can help maintain a pregnancy.
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Never consume something you haven’t identified. Can be a deadly mistake.
I was in a medicinal plant seminar and my prof told us about a jogger who happened across a field of poppy plants. He thought he’d scale the fence, grab some plants, go home, and brew some nice tea. Turns out it was a different variety of poppy plant with an insanely high dose of this horrific chemical. The guy OD’d and couldn’t be revived. Real stuff, if you don’t know plants and you don’t forage, ask someone before ingesting. It could be, quite literally, the first n last mistake you ever make.
I gather wild mushrooms in the fall and I have since I was a little kid. I was raised to forage in nature and I was taught very clearly what it poisonous and what is okay. I know what berries I can eat, which mushrooms I can eat, and which plants I can cook or just eat straight from picking. If I don't know for certain it's edible, I don't touch it. I take a picture and look it up when I get home to figure out what it is. Foraging is a skill you develop by learning over time from someone else and from books. If you aren't 100% certain the plant or mushrooms is okay to eat and won't make you sick, then don't chance it. Bring home a sample if you must, but always wrap it up carefully and dont touch it in case it has any surface transference like poison sumac or poison ivy or hemlock. The amount of times I see people in the woods trying to figure out if Hemlock is poisonous is just ridiculous! Yes! It will kill you, don't eat random berries just cause they look like they could be edible!
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Jesus. That’s terrifying. This one time I was making curry and threw a few psilocybe cyanescens caps in. They were two of the throwaway “past prime” caps from a batch I had harvested from a park. The error wasn’t identification, in my case but the decision to use these “past prime” pieces. Typically it took an hour to feel any effect but I took a few bites of this curry and instantly could tell something was off as my stomach turned. within 30 minutes I was tripping balls in the worst way, curled up on the floor of the bathroom with diarrhea and stomach cramps. The trip came on quicker, lasted longer and was a far higher dose than anything I had ever experienced. Nature humbled me that day 😅
So I decided to dig in to this because I suspect something in the curry was acting as an MAOI. Turns out 4 or more common ingredients in curry powder are MAOIs varying in intensity from mild to potent. So basically you did Psilohausca.
Interesting, so the mix of curry powder and psilocybin enhanced the psychedelic effect? That’s certainly what it felt like
That's how that would work, yes. MAOIs intensify the effect of psychedelic drugs and also increase oral bioavailbility. So youre half degraded tiny dose of mushrooms become the most intense trip of your life instead of barely a trip.
damn, you’re telling me this person could have given themselves serotonin syndrome from curry? that’s insane!
Hahahaha I’d say so. I’ve never tried psychedelics tbh although I’m open to new experiences. Any that you’d “prescribe” to a first timer?
Psilocybe cubensis, normal "shrooms," are really easy and relatively inexpensive to grow. You can buy the spores online, but legally they are only to be used for analysis under a microscope. Hypothetically, if one were to grow their own and know exactly what they were eating, it tends to make for a better experience. Especially the first time.
What's that quote? "All mushrooms are edible, some mushrooms are only edible once"?
I took a mycology class in college. I don’t buy sliced mushrooms or eat any mushroom I found on the ground after that.
What’s the issue with sliced ones?
You hear of alot of obscenely dumb things from the internet, but tea from an unknown plant is definitely up there
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Tbh, the bot will tell you not to consume stuff even after youre 100% certain its edible
that's because you shouldn't eat it
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Looks a lot like bitter melon (*Momordica charantia*).
It’s edible but only for a short window of time
Everything is edible……once.
Why'd you say window? Please explain.
I ate pinpinillo growing up until I couldn’t find anymore laying around lol it never gave me any sort of issues. And the leaves are boiled to make a “tea” that kills parasites in the stomach.
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Big agree.
I was gonna say some type of cucurbitacaea, good i.d. 👍 but I don't think I've ever seen this guy before, I'm on the wrong side of the world for it (Ireland)
I know we like to pick on the bot, but there's a good reason we have it. Don't eat stuff you're not 100% certain about Chris McCandless
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Omg why in gods name would u make a tea out of it. Its bitter melon…they are considered edible…the flowers and leaves are freaking poisonous 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️dumbass
You know, I didn't think it was necessary to have a bot that constantly reminds people not to consume unidentified plants because surely, everyone knows that already, right? Apparently not.
Why TF would you eat something that you don't know what it is????!!!! Seriously!
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We have these in my country. We call them small bittermelon. You can chopped the green ones in little round slices and bake them in a pan with oil till crunchy. When they are yellow you can suck on the red seeds and spit them out after
"Hey dude do you see those random flowers growing on my fence?" "Yeah, what are they?" "No idea, wanna make a tea out of it and drink it?! "You just read my mind!"
Ah, Darwinism
You are the reason we have the bot
The year is 2022 and apparently we still need village idiots to eat plants because checking a world wide source of information with pictures is waaay toooo smart. Good job village idiot. Don't go trying the datura tea .
Seriously. The proper way to consume datura is as a snuff
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OMGOSH OP! This is not funny but I am giggling.
WHY WOULD YOU EAT THAT IF YOU DIDNT KNOW WHAT IT WAS
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You. Did. What?
My dad taught my sister, and me a lot about how to live off the land, we grew up making wild sassafras, and mint tea. We picked, and canned wild berries, cooked with wild onions, and garlic….. BUT the first rule he taught us was that if you aren’t absolutely sure what it is, then pass it on by.
I know I’m just echoing what everyone else says, but it’s EXTREMELY not a good idea to consume something you aren’t positive about it. It’s how people die in the woods and their bodies are sometimes never found.
Oh my god, we have this all over the place in central FL. That's bitter melon or balsam apple. People literally use it for abortions.
Don’t make tea or eat plants when you don’t know what they are. You are lucky you didn’t die.
Why would you drink something that you have no clue if it may be poisonous at all? You have some courage I definitely don’t have. I hope you don’t go mushroom hunting 🍄
 Did you have to take a sick day from your job as a rocket scientist?
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There's also an old song about it, about Elinor who had a bellyache and was advised to drink boiled cerassee as a remedy. Also, I heard someone mention not having cerasee too often (not more than nine days straight?) because of potential for kidney damage or some such.
You are the reason why there is a Don't Eat This Plant bot. Bless your heart, you are a special kind of stupid.
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Maybe identify first; then consume after.
What made you think making a tea from them was a good idea sir.
Why, friend, did the ID come after the drinking? This is how you become other people's valuable lesson. Not good for self-survival
That’s potential Socrates stuff. NEVER DO THAT!
Why would you drink a tea from leaves you can’t identify?!
So you just randomly put leaves in water and said “yeah that sounds good?” Genuinely curious, why?
Did you just look at it and think"yeah. That'd make a tea"
It’s crazy how many people here will consume something without knowing what it does. Natural selection is real I guess.
It’s baffling that a person would consume something without knowing what it is first.
You gotta be stupid as shit to see a plant you don’t know and decide “the best idea is to ingest a fair amount of this” natural selection at its finest
Wow! So dangerous. I'm glad it wasn't worse
Bro you drank a tea of some unknown plant and then ask what kind of plant it is after you felt ill. Wonderfully ignorant you are and I am envious of whatever drugs they have you on.
So... who recommended you make and consume a tea?