How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely?

Re:How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely? by thelittleone on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @09:24AM (#20876935)

I've spent quite some time with a Shipibo master in the Peruvian Amazon. Master's like him will explain that the plants "talk" to them and tell them what they're good for healing and how they should be prepared and dosed.

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Re:How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely? by shawnz on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @10:10AM (#20877353)

Of course, the masters who "heard wrong" are now dead

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Re:How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely? by agumonkey on Thursday September 05, 2019 @01:02PM (#20888664)

Or they're just in a higher reality. Trumaster

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Re:How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely? by martin_a on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @11:31AM (#20878115)

Very obvious case of survivorship bias in its most direct sense.

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Re:How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely? by thelittleone on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @09:58PM (#20883228)

Certainly a reasonable opinion and one that I'd have shared before living with these people, but now I'm not so sure. There's a peculiar and wonderful connection between a shaman and nature (particularly a shaman from unbroken ancestral lines dating back hundreds of years). It's certainly something special to witness.

"Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm" by Buhner is an eye opening and thoroughly researched book in this area if you felt inclined to explore.

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Re:How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely? by martin_a on Thursday September 05, 2019 @02:50AM (#20884437)

It was a joke.

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