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the antidote: ghost pipe monotropa uniflora is often used to aid with the withdrawal of alcohol and opiates.
and the thought: turns out today’s crunchy ingredient, the humble poppy seed, is part of one of nature’s most powerful plants: the poppy. And what makes it so powerful are its pain-blocking capabilities- placing it at the top of one of human histories most used medicine, morphine (derived directly from the milky latex sap of the opium poppy).
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