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3/4 🧵 "Over 50,000 secondary metabolites have been discovered in the plant kingdom. Medicinal herbs and many modern medicines rely on secondary plant metabolites for their actions." https://t.co/zqRJYYywFy
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''' Improperly applied, some stimulants and sedatives are deadly. Strychnine is used as a rat poison. In 339 BC, the Greek philosopher, Socrates, was killed by being forced to drink hemlock which contains the alkaloid, coniine.'' https://t.co/ls7PWctOpN