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Belladonna For The Pupils

Belladonna has always been used as a poisonous plant – royalty would even use it to kill their enemies. It’s also a hallucinogen, and an unpleasant one at that. During the Renaissance, Belladonna extracts would be made into eyedrops that women used to dilate their pupils for a more seductive look. However, many of them went blind. So there’s the lesson in that.

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