Season 1 · Episode 2

The Apothecary Diaries · S1E2

Aired on October 22, 2023

Science entries in this episode

In The Apothecary Diaries, a tainted honey and a burned plant cause poisoning. We explain rhododendron's grayanotoxins and the famous mad honey.

False. Cocoa does contain active molecules, but at doses far too low to act on desire: the effect comes from reputation and placebo.

Partly true. You can build tolerance to some poisons, but never to all of them: Maomao's total immunity is fiction.