Deadly Nightshade

Our baby is teething and while I was at the pharmacy, I saw a homeopathic remedy for teething babies with the following ingredients:

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Belladonna, aka Deadly Nightshade, has what percentage of alkaloids? 0.0000000000003% or 3 x 10^-13%

Or if we take 1g of “medicine” then there are 3 femtograms, or 3 x 10^-15 grams of belladonna alkaloids. How small is this number?

That’s crazy small.

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