How did ancient people use venoms as medicine. Which issues were they treating and how did venom work to achieve that ?
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Small amounts of venom produce an enormous physiological response, which can be positive in certain situations. For example, race horses have often been “doped” with cobra venom to markedly increase acute performance.
Toad “venom” 5-meo-dmt has a history of human use, and dolphins get intoxicated on fish venoms. There’s probably medicinal venom use across cultures into prehistory. Chinese alchemy is a good place to start searching for this stuff – 10k recipes of herbs, venoms, frozen tears etc.
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