To be clear: the historical treatment for too much black bile (melancholic) is to shit it out with laxatives.
gut microbiome’s link to gut-brain axis and depreasion so partial points earned? laxatives usually have adverse effect on gut microbiome tho
Weird take, but blood-letting is a treatment against microplastics. As is menstruation and donating blood, but the first one is more medieval.
That’s a treadmill. You have to eat and drink more micro plastics to replace the lost blood. Bloodletting was the opposite you wanted to do with melancholic illness btw. You wanted to increase sanguine humor(blood, the opposite of black bile) so you ate and drank sanguine foods(meat and gravy, red wine) while taking laxatives and enemas.
Hilariously there is one aspect of this that is actually accurate to modern suggestions. To increase sanguine humor you should exercise and get hot and sweaty (sanguine humor is considered hot and wet). Vigorous exercise is considered by modern medicine to be good for depression.
However the microplastics that had previously accumulated would leave your body, thereby reducing the concentration temporarily.
Can confirm. Worked my ass off today. Felt good.
The idea of imbibing potions whose recipes predate our awareness of things like radium or mercury toxicity somewhat disturbs me.
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