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TIL Cold Food Powder was a toxic recreational drug popular in China during the chaotic Six Dynasties (220-589). Ingredients included crushed fluorite, quartz, sulphur, arsenic mercury minerals as realgar cinnabar. Inducing intense hyperthermia, users needed to eat cold foods and bathe in cold water. [Source]
Wikipedia Cold-Food Powder poisonous psychoactive drug - 🤨 1