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the unicorn horn trade was a real thing historically. The supposed unicorn horns were narwal tusks. They were often used in medicine and alchemy, and could supposedly detect and/or prevent poisoning. The trade in "unicorn horns" began in the early middle ages, and lasted well into the 1600s.
Came here to say this. It could also be rhinoceros horn, which was believed by some cultures to have aphrodisiac properties. This, of course, involved poaching the animals to get the horn. The scientific name for the rhinoceros is _Rhinoceros unicornis_ and it is very likely the animal described in Biblical mythology in the Book of Job as a "unicorn."
@@FrozEnbyWolf150 That could be true more generally, but the trade in narwal tusks as unicorn horns in Medieval and Early Modern europe is a well documented phenominon. So in that particular time and place, which Paracelsus and his writings fall into, we know that when they say unicorn horn, what they're actually putting in there is narwhal tusk. Also from what I understand the use of it as an aphrodisiac is primarily in East Asia, and there is a lot of evidence that that is a much more modern phenomenon than most people think.
@@annasfischerI too came here to mention narwhals, but had completely forgotten about rhinos. You might find the Rhisotope Project interesting. It's a very unique way to exploit radiation detectors already present at borders and ports to help deter poachers and catch smugglers.
Don't make potions containing Foxgloves. They're highly variable in the amount of digitalis ( the active ingredient ) that they contain. To much is fatal. They grow wild in hedges and woodland here in England.
Seemed strange to warn against the toads when the foxglove is just as potentially deadly. Snake root is also generally avoided now as its use can produce suicidal depression. Henbane and mandrake should also get more than "a toxic effect". They not only kill directly but at lower doses can cause permanent brain damage and often cause death by induced stupidity.
Yeah, we used to have some in our garden as a kid. They were pretty, but I definitely remember my family warning me to avoid them as they're poisonous.
@@tiffanyrowell4903The molecule is but the effect on the brain is quite different. Meth primarily releases dopamine while mdma primarily releases serotonin. This makes meth far more likely to cause addiction. The experience is quite different too; meth primarily stimulates the sex drive, while mdma primarily facilitates social connection via increased empathy.
@@tiffanyrowell4903No, the effects on our emotional system are different because crystal meth is no entactogen/empathogen. Next to mdma, lsd and 5meoDMT can act as a love "potion". But they can have so much more effect on us and are less reliable to go to the love direction for the whole trip. Also: Strong mdma overdoses (serotonin syndrom) can make you feel very bad.
"The dose makes the poison" (Latin: dosis sola facit venenum 'only the dose makes the poison') is an adage intended to indicate a basic principle of toxicology. It is credited to Paracelsus who expressed the classic toxicology maxim "All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison."
Giving someone first-date stomach butterflies is marginally better than roofying them, I guess, but administering mind-altering substances to people without their advance knowledge and express consent is icky.
Hence the suggested use of taking the love potion before an arranged date with someone approved by your parents, friends or a dating app . Just to increase chances of success, both on the day and with future parental help once the relationship grows permanent .
Dosing yourself is marginally better than dosing someone else, I suppose, but it still seems to me like a really bad idea to chemically alter your perceptions of how much you like someone, @@johndododoe1411 . A relationship in which one partner is fooling themselves about what they feel for the other is built on quicksand.
Ive been prescribed Quetiapine for years for my bipolar, its the best thing I've ever had for my mental health and when I take it at night, im alsleep within 40 minutes. Getting a proper night sleep with a routine at the same time every day has been so massive for mental health in general.
Monk's pepper fruit. Vitex agnus-castus. Available from all good herbalists, mostly now used against menstrual cramps. It suppresses release of prolactin from the pituitary gland.
I mean there are chemically neutering drugs... ... ... ... ... ... Usually used as a punishment/treatment/condition to early release for sex offenders...
The substance Foxglove produces (digitoxin) was once used to stop the heart in high doses by basically halting the sodium-potassium pump completely. We use a derivative of it today (digitalis) as a somewhat safer alternative to treat certain heart arrhythmias and to recover from cardiac arrest.
The medication we use is called digoxin. It's used occasionally in atrial fibrillation and heart failure, but the drug level in the blood must be monitored and adjusted carefully because digoxin toxicity can be fatal
@@Greye13 and maybe lack of guilt, that btw all the criteria mentioned are part of Narcissistic personality. Getting its way taking advantage about others.
Would've been good to remind folks that foxglove is straight up deadly too - since all those things you talked about, in a higher dose, will cause your heart to quit working. I'd also like the note that there are still some "potions" for sleep nowadays, and I don't mean melatonin or even diphenhydramine (ie Unisom/Benadryl). Valerian is a great herb for calming the body down, and there are some herbal tea blends of that and chamomile (among other things) intended for sleep. But teas and tisanes weren't ever considered "potions" I suppose?
@@vectorwolf Yep! My son has ADHD; I don't though, sadly. Meanwhile Valerian makes my brother and sister both have terrible nightmares!! So brain chemistry is straight up weird sometimes!
@@Beryllahawk I can't say I've tried valerian. But the brain be whack. Even with commercial medication for mental stuff, the actual reason it may or may not work is a mystery, and no guarantees. It's why you see ads for antidepressants... that have side effects of 'may cause depression'. It's all a matter of finding out what works for you and what doesn't! I tell you what, I could use a sleep potion right now because it's 8am and I still can't sleep ...
Seems I'm the minority here, yet I believe love isn't the same as having the isolated perception of "being in love" Similar to being filled up with alcohol does not equal being fulfilled. It seems as soon as we have to equate intrinsic, natural feelings with chemical agents that stir up our brains we probably lost a big part of our humanity
As usual, it's the dosage that makes the poison. That said, we've got plenty of potion-like medicines these days. I used to use an antidepressant that you take by adding a specific number of droplets to a glass of water before mixing & drinking the result. That's only a flashy colour change and some smoke effects away from a proper magical potion. You could even argue the stuff was toxic, since it was a solution of 99.5% pure ethanol (AKA the alcohol in alcoholic beverages, famous for causing all sorts of liver, kidney & brain damage over long periods of time), and changing dosage too quickly or stopping cold turkey would have some serious side effects - as is the case with many antidepressants that do anything.
Teas with skullcap, passionflower, california poppy, ashwagandha, camomile, valerian, lavender, lemongrass.... all help stop racing thoughts and calm you down. Sleep!
@@MaxOakland The suspension bridge effect is a psychological phenomenon in which two people on a date who walk across a suspension bridge are more likely to develop romantic feelings/attraction for each other. The idea is that the scary situation causes their hearts to beat quickly, adrenaline to pump, endorphins to release, and other physical reactions that are similar to the feeling of falling in love, so people get the feelings mixed up. Which is very similar to how these love potions seem to have worked.
Nervousness, racing heart, sweaty palms, weak in the knees? Kind of sounds like the symptoms of food poisoning or diarrhoea. If you want a "love potion" maybe go back to trying those oysters, just make sure they're slightly off.
Lavender is pretty well known to be soothing and helps you fall asleep, but for me, it makes my throat close. Sucks how popular lavender is. From beauty products to cleaning agents, I have to either pop a Benadryl around the time of exposure, or hold my breath and swiftly walk by those aisles in the store.
I wonder if unicorn horn was like eye of newt, a poetic name for some mundane plant part, maybe a way to keep trade secrets so any outsider would try putting in narwall horn , not get the wanted effect and have to come begging at the guy's door.
Huh that's pretty cool! I always kind of thought love potions were kind of like someone selling regular water and slapping the magic label on it. Really neat to know there was actual science behind them
@davidhand9721 I mean, there kind of was? They've had to use science in order to get a specific* reaction, unlike what I'd originally assumed (literally just water or something.) An actual love potion can't obviously be made, but they could at least make an illusion, I'm not saying it was real/worked :o
@@davidhand9721 The definition of science is properly labeling your potion? They used medicinal knowledge to concoct a drink which had a specific effect that they intended. We use a lot of medicine to treat illnesses that actually only treat the symptoms. I suppose that's not science either?
Opium and brandy as a sleeping potion... can confirm, this is definitely an effective sleeping potion until you run out of potion, then it is the opposite
I know this isn't the main content of the video, but I was under the impression from my studies that melatonin can't get past the blood brain barrier and so the supplements/any melatonin not made in the brain itself was unable to effect a person's feeling of tiredness, so you mentioning it as something we can do to help us fall asleep suggests that it actually is possible for it to get past the blood brain barrier and be an effect sleep aid?
In this case it was an actual horn (narwhal), but many other creepy potion-y ingredients we think of today were actually plants, like eye of newt referring to mustard seed!
I didn't know that one could take melatonin in pills to sleep. I know that i feel sleepy because my brain is full of melatonin, but I never guessed that I could take to feel it.
Yes! It doesn't work for everyone - it works better for those with a physiological reason for poor sleep than those with psychological reasons - but for me, it's the difference between starting to feel sleepy at 10pm or 3am.
@@Rachel-fi4sc I don't have any problem falling asleep per se, but I do wake up at midnight with the need for pee. When I was a teen I could sleep the whole night but as an adult, I can't.
@@daniel_rossy_explica That sucks. I have similar problems. Would you like to know what's helped me get back to sleep, or would you prefer just commiseration and sympathy?
@@Rachel-fi4sc I found that if I don't drink too much or if I wait a little longer after dinner, I can sleep the whole night, but since I do have to wake up early in the mornings, I go to bed as soon I finish eating.
I believe the closest thing to an IRL love potion which particularly kinda works on women... Is to feed them cinnamon (particularly in tea form) Though it's more of a lust potion than a love potion
RUclips has been posting the same number of likes for all the videos I watch at a time. For example: every video I watch at one time will have 551 likes because the first video I watched today had 551 likes. No matter the size of the channel.
Ah, so Brittany Spears was talking about these potions 😛 After taking the sleeping potion: [it's] toxic [but] I'm slipping under And re the other option: I love what you do but you know that you're toxic
Truely the best potions are for swim, jump, run, etc...good things to pack in your bugout bag and to have in your d&d quest. Nature is more dangerous than dragons or goblins.
Huh. So there was some basis for belief in the effectiveness of ancient supposed love (aka lust aka roofie) potions, although the makers and buyers didn't know that the effects were really due to Science and not, you know, Magic.
I thought "love potions" were supposed to make people fall in love, not give them the symptoms of emotional rush associated with dating! That's misleading at best, and a scam at worst. Medieval's version of snake oil for love birds (and scummy people). lol
Actually sleeping drugs are just sedatives. Apart from melatonin, which is a real part of the sleep process. Sedative does not make you sleep, it paralyzes you.
Love potions (or more accurately love drugs) have never seemed all that far-fetched to me. Love is pretty much identical to an addiction. There are lots of drugs that make you fall in love - with the drug. Imprinting a specific other person is the rub, and that would be next to impossible to get 100%, but if you get the dose and temporal profile just perfect, I am certain you could get someone to (at least temporarily) love whatever they're looking at without feeling drugged enough to make the correct association. Of course this would be highly, highly unethical. Never give someone drugs. That they didn't ask for.
Not even two minutes into this video, and I'm disappointed that you're not showing the proper ratio and sodium and potassium being moved by the Na+/K+ ATPase. (P.S. Reserpine is pronounced "RESS-er-PEEN." It is also used in research to disrupt mice's ability to stay warm.)
I would have loved a detail of when and where each of these potion recipes were recorded. I know you have 15 sources in the description, but I am not trawling through all of them to see where the toad/foxglove/snakeroot mixture was used. I am guessing India but the date might change my guess.
Could you clerify? how can increased exitability due to traped Ca+2 ions binding to myocytes in the heart lead to a lower HR? wouldent the opposite occurr thus stimulating the sympothetic system?
all these comments saying mdma is the modern love potion and sure they're not wrong that it is most similar to what we like to think love potions do, but in pretty much all fiction containing them atleast as far as im aware they are used to get someone who is completely uninterested in you to "love" you and be very pliable to do what you want them to do so id have to say rohypnol is a more fitting equivalent, to be clear im saying love potion = date r*pe and that we should stop idealising them as they are not just gross but scary
I think this episode is a little irresponsible/dangerous: too much time is spent listing off the ingredients and talking about how "effective" they are, but not enough time is spent on how poisonous these compounds can be or the negative effects caused by their toxins. All it's gonna take is some lonely heart deciding to mix up a love potion using your recipe, getting it wrong, and putting someone in the hospital.
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the unicorn horn trade was a real thing historically. The supposed unicorn horns were narwal tusks. They were often used in medicine and alchemy, and could supposedly detect and/or prevent poisoning. The trade in "unicorn horns" began in the early middle ages, and lasted well into the 1600s.
Came here to say this. It could also be rhinoceros horn, which was believed by some cultures to have aphrodisiac properties. This, of course, involved poaching the animals to get the horn. The scientific name for the rhinoceros is _Rhinoceros unicornis_ and it is very likely the animal described in Biblical mythology in the Book of Job as a "unicorn."
@@FrozEnbyWolf150 That could be true more generally, but the trade in narwal tusks as unicorn horns in Medieval and Early Modern europe is a well documented phenominon. So in that particular time and place, which Paracelsus and his writings fall into, we know that when they say unicorn horn, what they're actually putting in there is narwhal tusk.
Also from what I understand the use of it as an aphrodisiac is primarily in East Asia, and there is a lot of evidence that that is a much more modern phenomenon than most people think.
Although unicorn horns can be substituted with snake oil if they're unavailable 🙂
@@NorthVandea lol!
@@annasfischerI too came here to mention narwhals, but had completely forgotten about rhinos. You might find the Rhisotope Project interesting. It's a very unique way to exploit radiation detectors already present at borders and ports to help deter poachers and catch smugglers.
Don't make potions containing Foxgloves. They're highly variable in the amount of digitalis ( the active ingredient ) that they contain. To much is fatal. They grow wild in hedges and woodland here in England.
Seemed strange to warn against the toads when the foxglove is just as potentially deadly. Snake root is also generally avoided now as its use can produce suicidal depression. Henbane and mandrake should also get more than "a toxic effect". They not only kill directly but at lower doses can cause permanent brain damage and often cause death by induced stupidity.
Yeah, we used to have some in our garden as a kid. They were pretty, but I definitely remember my family warning me to avoid them as they're poisonous.
@@pattheplanterInduced stupidity is now my explanation when I mess something up. 😀🖖💕
Foxglove is a well known poisonous plant. I’m surprised they didn’t mention that the toxins can kill.
Even digitalis medicine is very tricky to dose
Palms are sweaty?!
Knees week?! Arms are heavy?!
I know this one!
Not exactly a potion.
It's mom's spaghetti!
MDMA is probably the closest thing we have in Morden pharmacology to a "Love potion."
Great typo lmao
Isn't meth also similar
@@tiffanyrowell4903The molecule is but the effect on the brain is quite different. Meth primarily releases dopamine while mdma primarily releases serotonin. This makes meth far more likely to cause addiction. The experience is quite different too; meth primarily stimulates the sex drive, while mdma primarily facilitates social connection via increased empathy.
@@Arcanist_Gaming oops
@@tiffanyrowell4903No, the effects on our emotional system are different because crystal meth is no entactogen/empathogen.
Next to mdma, lsd and 5meoDMT can act as a love "potion". But they can have so much more effect on us and are less reliable to go to the love direction for the whole trip. Also: Strong mdma overdoses (serotonin syndrom) can make you feel very bad.
Love the fun facts. Foxglove is also toxic. Basically, people used various poisons in lower doses for the desired side effects.
most medicines are poisons in the wrong dosage
Using poisons in lower doses is still kind of the entire basis of modern medicine.
"The dose makes the poison" (Latin: dosis sola facit venenum 'only the dose makes the poison') is an adage intended to indicate a basic principle of toxicology. It is credited to Paracelsus who expressed the classic toxicology maxim "All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison."
Paracelsus was right, there - a person can die simply from drinking too much water in too short of a time :-/
Giving someone first-date stomach butterflies is marginally better than roofying them, I guess, but administering mind-altering substances to people without their advance knowledge and express consent is icky.
And a crime.
Even in modern witchcraft we don’t cast spells on someone without their express and full consent. Cause you’re right; it’s icky.
Hence the suggested use of taking the love potion before an arranged date with someone approved by your parents, friends or a dating app . Just to increase chances of success, both on the day and with future parental help once the relationship grows permanent .
Dosing yourself is marginally better than dosing someone else, I suppose, but it still seems to me like a really bad idea to chemically alter your perceptions of how much you like someone, @@johndododoe1411 . A relationship in which one partner is fooling themselves about what they feel for the other is built on quicksand.
Ive been prescribed Quetiapine for years for my bipolar, its the best thing I've ever had for my mental health and when I take it at night, im alsleep within 40 minutes.
Getting a proper night sleep with a routine at the same time every day has been so massive for mental health in general.
I take that too. It helps but doesn't always put me to sleep.
What my mental health DESPERATELY needs right now is a predictably consistent daily schedule....
@@brandongaines1731 A daily schedule especially for sleeping and eating really helped me with my mental problems (PTSD, bipolar, autism)
Now do an episode on “un-love” potions so I don’t turn into a _Three Stooges_ character every time I see the girl I have a crush on.
Monk's pepper fruit. Vitex agnus-castus. Available from all good herbalists, mostly now used against menstrual cramps. It suppresses release of prolactin from the pituitary gland.
😂🤣😂🖖💕
Attractive women make men lose around 10 IQ. No joke, measured effect. Science fact.
I mean there are chemically neutering drugs... ... ... ... ... ...
Usually used as a punishment/treatment/condition to early release for sex offenders...
Find whatever causes the opposite effects to the love potion ingredients 😂
Anything calming, it seems
The substance Foxglove produces (digitoxin) was once used to stop the heart in high doses by basically halting the sodium-potassium pump completely. We use a derivative of it today (digitalis) as a somewhat safer alternative to treat certain heart arrhythmias and to recover from cardiac arrest.
digitalis is the plant name, not the extract .
The medication we use is called digoxin. It's used occasionally in atrial fibrillation and heart failure, but the drug level in the blood must be monitored and adjusted carefully because digoxin toxicity can be fatal
The way I read this title I thought we were learning about sleep. And then also learning about love potions.
This makes more sense now.
So the love potion would make the person that takes it feel like they are in love? That’s actually pretty tricky.
More like terrified.
straight up manipulation.
How desperate one can be to resort to manipulation.
@@MiriadCalibrumAstar Also highly insecure, as well as lacking conscience.
@@Greye13 and maybe lack of guilt, that btw all the criteria mentioned are part of Narcissistic personality. Getting its way taking advantage about others.
@@MiriadCalibrumAstar Absolutely! It's very narcissistic.
Would've been good to remind folks that foxglove is straight up deadly too - since all those things you talked about, in a higher dose, will cause your heart to quit working.
I'd also like the note that there are still some "potions" for sleep nowadays, and I don't mean melatonin or even diphenhydramine (ie Unisom/Benadryl). Valerian is a great herb for calming the body down, and there are some herbal tea blends of that and chamomile (among other things) intended for sleep. But teas and tisanes weren't ever considered "potions" I suppose?
Curiously, if you suffer from ADHD, caffeine can help you sleep, as it calms that 'squirrel brain' feeling.
@@vectorwolf Yep! My son has ADHD; I don't though, sadly. Meanwhile Valerian makes my brother and sister both have terrible nightmares!! So brain chemistry is straight up weird sometimes!
@@Beryllahawk I can't say I've tried valerian. But the brain be whack. Even with commercial medication for mental stuff, the actual reason it may or may not work is a mystery, and no guarantees. It's why you see ads for antidepressants... that have side effects of 'may cause depression'. It's all a matter of finding out what works for you and what doesn't!
I tell you what, I could use a sleep potion right now because it's 8am and I still can't sleep ...
Now I want to start referring to modern medications as potions. It would be interesting to study if this change in language boosts the placebo effect.
Forget-me-nots are another flower that help reduce anxiety/blood-pressure and promote sleep!
Your guys' content is often wonderfully weird. I love it, thank you!
Has anyone DNA tested a potion that contained "unicorn horn" to see if it had rhino horn, elephant tusk, narwhal tooth or something similar in it?
I think all we found are recipes, not actual full bottles, tho i might be wrong
"Unicorn horn" was often actually narwhal horn.
Who needs a love potion when I have an animation of Stefan as a nearly-naked one-winged Cupid? Set for life.
Anyone who's ever tried MDMA/ecstasy, will know love potions are real and they work.
So is that why they take it at concerts? I thought it was to hallucinate, not to turn the entire arena into a giant orgy lol
Yeah, the rave scene definitely nailed the love potion decades ago
Best love potion I ever had!!!!
Wasn't expecting a junkie conglomerate to form in the comments but here we are
Seems I'm the minority here, yet I believe love isn't the same as having the isolated perception of "being in love"
Similar to being filled up with alcohol does not equal being fulfilled.
It seems as soon as we have to equate intrinsic, natural feelings with chemical agents that stir up our brains we probably lost a big part of our humanity
Today I learned I’ve been licking the wrong toad.
I can't believe you blew thru bufotoxins as quickly as you did. As the main ingredient in zombie powder, it's worth its own video.
As usual, it's the dosage that makes the poison. That said, we've got plenty of potion-like medicines these days. I used to use an antidepressant that you take by adding a specific number of droplets to a glass of water before mixing & drinking the result. That's only a flashy colour change and some smoke effects away from a proper magical potion.
You could even argue the stuff was toxic, since it was a solution of 99.5% pure ethanol (AKA the alcohol in alcoholic beverages, famous for causing all sorts of liver, kidney & brain damage over long periods of time), and changing dosage too quickly or stopping cold turkey would have some serious side effects - as is the case with many antidepressants that do anything.
Teas with skullcap, passionflower, california poppy, ashwagandha, camomile, valerian, lavender, lemongrass.... all help stop racing thoughts and calm you down. Sleep!
huh. so real life love potions were basically the suspension bridge effect in a bottle. that's actually really cool
What does that mean?
@@MaxOakland The suspension bridge effect is a psychological phenomenon in which two people on a date who walk across a suspension bridge are more likely to develop romantic feelings/attraction for each other. The idea is that the scary situation causes their hearts to beat quickly, adrenaline to pump, endorphins to release, and other physical reactions that are similar to the feeling of falling in love, so people get the feelings mixed up.
Which is very similar to how these love potions seem to have worked.
That's crazy to me@@combogalis
I am now an expert on "toxic love".
Nervousness, racing heart, sweaty palms, weak in the knees? Kind of sounds like the symptoms of food poisoning or diarrhoea. If you want a "love potion" maybe go back to trying those oysters, just make sure they're slightly off.
Unicorn horn would either be narwhal or rhino. Possibly a couple other sources.
3:13 I feel called out. I was literally shaking my leg when you said that lmao
Wow interesting!! I am gonna study herbalism and botanism now :D
Lavender is pretty well known to be soothing and helps you fall asleep, but for me, it makes my throat close. Sucks how popular lavender is. From beauty products to cleaning agents, I have to either pop a Benadryl around the time of exposure, or hold my breath and swiftly walk by those aisles in the store.
I wonder if unicorn horn was like eye of newt, a poetic name for some mundane plant part, maybe a way to keep trade secrets so any outsider would try putting in narwall horn , not get the wanted effect and have to come begging at the guy's door.
Huh that's pretty cool! I always kind of thought love potions were kind of like someone selling regular water and slapping the magic label on it. Really neat to know there was actual science behind them
There wasn't _actual_ science, though. They replicated side effects of attraction, but didn't succeed in making anyone fall in love.
@davidhand9721 I mean, there kind of was? They've had to use science in order to get a specific* reaction, unlike what I'd originally assumed (literally just water or something.) An actual love potion can't obviously be made, but they could at least make an illusion, I'm not saying it was real/worked :o
@@davidhand9721 The definition of science is properly labeling your potion? They used medicinal knowledge to concoct a drink which had a specific effect that they intended. We use a lot of medicine to treat illnesses that actually only treat the symptoms. I suppose that's not science either?
We have plenty of unicorn horns. They don't come from unicorns, but the horns referred to as unicorn horn in medieval texts are from Narwhals.
Aren't Narwhales are bit threatened with extinction?
Opium and brandy as a sleeping potion... can confirm, this is definitely an effective sleeping potion until you run out of potion, then it is the opposite
opioid withdrawal
Hi Stefan!
I'm in love with SciShow already. Does that count?
i'm pretty sure if you put mdma in water, dye it red and call it love potion it would work
Thanks 👍
instructions unclear, gf stuck in wall but at least she got butterflies in her stomach......(falls asleep)
Thank you 🙏
Don't forget that alcohol is also toxic. All things in moderation.
Love the heart ❤️ shaped flask . I have a double necked one that looks even more like a heart.
4:28 Palms are sweaty
Knees weak, arms are heavy
Ricers are very common for making mash.
I know this isn't the main content of the video, but I was under the impression from my studies that melatonin can't get past the blood brain barrier and so the supplements/any melatonin not made in the brain itself was unable to effect a person's feeling of tiredness, so you mentioning it as something we can do to help us fall asleep suggests that it actually is possible for it to get past the blood brain barrier and be an effect sleep aid?
"Drugs are Bad, Mkay?" Mr. Mackey from South Park (first thing that popped into my head after watching this video)
love potions are sold in an island in the Philippines and you can just buy it like an energy drink
Go Go Sci Show!
You gotta give up the toad 🎶🎶
Could unicorn horn refer to a type of plant?
In this case it was an actual horn (narwhal), but many other creepy potion-y ingredients we think of today were actually plants, like eye of newt referring to mustard seed!
H..how did you know I was shaking my leg anxiously?¿
I didn't know that one could take melatonin in pills to sleep. I know that i feel sleepy because my brain is full of melatonin, but I never guessed that I could take to feel it.
Yes! It doesn't work for everyone - it works better for those with a physiological reason for poor sleep than those with psychological reasons - but for me, it's the difference between starting to feel sleepy at 10pm or 3am.
@@Rachel-fi4sc I don't have any problem falling asleep per se, but I do wake up at midnight with the need for pee. When I was a teen I could sleep the whole night but as an adult, I can't.
@@daniel_rossy_explica That sucks. I have similar problems. Would you like to know what's helped me get back to sleep, or would you prefer just commiseration and sympathy?
@@Rachel-fi4sc I found that if I don't drink too much or if I wait a little longer after dinner, I can sleep the whole night, but since I do have to wake up early in the mornings, I go to bed as soon I finish eating.
Not sure which one I need more rn 😂
so are we to understand that the new drug huey lewis wanted was just an old-fashioned love potion?
Is'nt foxglove also toxic?
"Think about hhow you felt on your first date"
Cant do, had no date ever, thanks :(
I believe the closest thing to an IRL love potion which particularly kinda works on women... Is to feed them cinnamon (particularly in tea form)
Though it's more of a lust potion than a love potion
How is there only justover 1 k veiws but 43k likes? RUclips confuses me. Thanks for the video though!
I see 194 likes and 1,986 views.
@@bartolomeothesatyr youtube is screwed up man I'm so confused
They don't update the numbers continuously. Probably there was a delay in updating the views, causing it to get out of synch with the likes.
RUclips has been posting the same number of likes for all the videos I watch at a time.
For example: every video I watch at one time will have 551 likes because the first video I watched today had 551 likes. No matter the size of the channel.
But everybody knows you're supposed to _smoke_ your toad.
4:26 … Uhm… I can’t 😭
Not going to talk about the potions I made in the shower by mixing soaps together?
Ah, so Brittany Spears was talking about these potions 😛
After taking the sleeping potion: [it's] toxic [but] I'm slipping under
And re the other option: I love what you do but you know that you're toxic
Truely the best potions are for swim, jump, run, etc...good things to pack in your bugout bag and to have in your d&d quest. Nature is more dangerous than dragons or goblins.
Do Roofies technically fall under both categories?
4:28 Is that an Eminem reference?
Well... I don't see any bad side effects on the love potion ingredients... so... I feel like we're missing some answers
Huh. So there was some basis for belief in the effectiveness of ancient supposed love (aka lust aka roofie) potions, although the makers and buyers didn't know that the effects were really due to Science and not, you know, Magic.
I thought "love potions" were supposed to make people fall in love, not give them the symptoms of emotional rush associated with dating!
That's misleading at best, and a scam at worst. Medieval's version of snake oil for love birds (and scummy people). lol
This would be useful for starting a relationship with the expected feelings .
Actually sleeping drugs are just sedatives. Apart from melatonin, which is a real part of the sleep process. Sedative does not make you sleep, it paralyzes you.
What is the desert living toad that people lick to get high?
Give me the big eepies
“Farfegnugen.”
Except digitalis is also potentially fatal, and quite easy to OD on.
You should cover how melatonin supresses estrogen and testosterone.
Love potions (or more accurately love drugs) have never seemed all that far-fetched to me. Love is pretty much identical to an addiction. There are lots of drugs that make you fall in love - with the drug. Imprinting a specific other person is the rub, and that would be next to impossible to get 100%, but if you get the dose and temporal profile just perfect, I am certain you could get someone to (at least temporarily) love whatever they're looking at without feeling drugged enough to make the correct association.
Of course this would be highly, highly unethical. Never give someone drugs. That they didn't ask for.
This was infamously done using scopolamine by at least one "pick up artist" / Convicted Rapist .
You basically skipped the bullfrog chemical. Probably because it gets you wasted
Not even two minutes into this video, and I'm disappointed that you're not showing the proper ratio and sodium and potassium being moved by the Na+/K+ ATPase. (P.S. Reserpine is pronounced "RESS-er-PEEN." It is also used in research to disrupt mice's ability to stay warm.)
Oh gosh I'm so glad I wasn't the only one who noticed the ratio was off. C'mon Sci Show, your viewers will catch that stuff ;)
4:29
His palms are sweaty, knees weak, love is heavy
Sleep potion= Beer
So you're saying they work?
My sleep potion 🍹
Isn't 5 mg of melatonin WAY too much?
Shoutout to the Eminem lyrics. Can't believe nobody commented on that yet
I would have loved a detail of when and where each of these potion recipes were recorded. I know you have 15 sources in the description, but I am not trawling through all of them to see where the toad/foxglove/snakeroot mixture was used. I am guessing India but the date might change my guess.
some roots of chemistry and medicine💖brings closer to earth🌻
Could you clerify?
how can increased exitability due to traped Ca+2 ions binding to myocytes in the heart lead to a lower HR? wouldent the opposite occurr thus stimulating the sympothetic system?
I came here because I saw the word sleep
I’m surprised he didn’t say anything about fox gloves being super poisonous when he mentioned about the roads being toxic.
Roads are toxic especially when there are drunk drivers.
Everybody should be careful, I know for instance that the synthetic poisonous toad sold at Walmart doesn't work with a darn.
1:25 hey im supposed to learn that atm
all these comments saying mdma is the modern love potion and sure they're not wrong that it is most similar to what we like to think love potions do, but in pretty much all fiction containing them atleast as far as im aware they are used to get someone who is completely uninterested in you to "love" you and be very pliable to do what you want them to do so id have to say rohypnol is a more fitting equivalent, to be clear im saying love potion = date r*pe and that we should stop idealising them as they are not just gross but scary
Where can I get this sleep potion?
The first eight love potions didn't work so well. But, when Madame Ruth mixed up a batch of...
Everyone talking about MDMA being conspicuously absent from this list, all I'm thinking is "where's the booze?"
Alcohol could potentially be considered an aphrodisiac (effects vary wildly from person to person), not really a "love potion" though.
Toad-approved video. A great animal to have on your side, in general.
I believe in love potions
I think this video doesn't make it clear enough that foxglove is very toxic. Don't just eat foxglove.
I think this episode is a little irresponsible/dangerous: too much time is spent listing off the ingredients and talking about how "effective" they are, but not enough time is spent on how poisonous these compounds can be or the negative effects caused by their toxins. All it's gonna take is some lonely heart deciding to mix up a love potion using your recipe, getting it wrong, and putting someone in the hospital.
They better not name the love potion love potion no.9 there is a dying l song out there give it bad reviews 🥺🤐😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩 sorry for this comment 🥺
maybe one day we'll figure out the secret to health potions.