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The 'ER Antidote' Weed. Why Are We Told To Kill It?

When someone eats a Death Cap mushroom, emergency rooms reach for one antidote: a compound extracted from Milk Thistle, the only treatment proven to save patients from fatal liver failure. Hospitals also use it to treat cirrhosis, and its seeds are one of the most powerful natural liver detoxifiers known to medicine. Yet the US government has classified this plant as a Class A Noxious Weed in states like Washington, legally requiring citizens to destroy it on sight. The ban has nothing to do with human safety—the peeled stalks are edible and taste like celery—but everything to do with cattle: Milk Thistle accumulates soil nitrates that can harm livestock. A hospital-grade antidote growing in ditches across America, marked for extermination to protect the beef industry while you pay forty dollars for liver supplements at the pharmacy.