On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 02:21:42PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: > To be fair, oral LD50 for capsaicin is 42.7 mg/kg in mice. > Assuming human primates fare the same, half a gram of pure > capsaicin taken orally should be enough to kill you.
....if you're a 10 kg infant, that is. Or have 10 kg mice to kill. > Interestingly enough, resiniferatoxin is 10^3 as potent > as capsaicin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resiniferatoxin > > Too bad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resin_spurge probably tastes bad. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
