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[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 78 points 2 months ago

To be clear: the historical treatment for too much black bile (melancholic) is to shit it out with laxatives.

[-] inconel@lemmy.ca 45 points 2 months ago

gut microbiome's link to gut-brain axis and depreasion so partial points earned? laxatives usually have adverse effect on gut microbiome tho

[-] match@pawb.social 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

yeah you are going to want to combine this with probiotics, or eating ass

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 31 points 2 months ago

Gotta make sure you're eating undepressed ass though, else you're just back at stage 1

[-] match@pawb.social 30 points 2 months ago

But where am I going to find a happy bottom 🥺

[-] Nikls94@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

Weird take, but blood-letting is a treatment against microplastics. As is menstruation and donating blood, but the first one is more medieval.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 months ago

The solution to pollution is dilution!

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That's a treadmill. You have to eat and drink more micro plastics to replace the lost blood. Bloodletting was the opposite you wanted to do with melancholic illness btw. You wanted to increase sanguine humor(blood, the opposite of black bile) so you ate and drank sanguine foods(meat and gravy, red wine) while taking laxatives and enemas.

Hilariously there is one aspect of this that is actually accurate to modern suggestions. To increase sanguine humor you should exercise and get hot and sweaty (sanguine humor is considered hot and wet). Vigorous exercise is considered by modern medicine to be good for depression.

[-] glitchdx@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Can confirm. Worked my ass off today. Felt good.

[-] Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

However the microplastics that had previously accumulated would leave your body, thereby reducing the concentration temporarily.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 months ago

You ever go a long time without a good shit? Those alchemists may have been on to something.

this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2025
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