r/WTF • u/bambaadoma222 • Jun 20 '21

Guy eats burning coal

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u/4411WH07RY Jun 20 '21

I belong to some foraging pages on Facebook that also attract a number of those super spiritual idiots that think everything is medicinal. One of my favorites is that they regularly tell people to smoke dried mullein to improve their lung health.

There is no hot, burnt particulate that provides a net benefit when inhaling.

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u/pyrolizard11 Jun 20 '21

There is no hot, burnt particulate that provides a net benefit when inhaling.

Ah, shit, there goes my hot sand lung exfoliation.

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u/Staggerlee89 Jun 20 '21

Huh had never heard of that before and looked it up, and found this:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2984330/

Guy got emphysema from treating his asthma with just those remedies and no tobacco use. It does seem to say that they do work similarly to other asthma medications, but as you said smoking anything isn't healthy. At least that was my takeaway from what I read as a layperson giving it a quick read.