Myths & mysteries
Pliny the Elder wrote that ancient Roman mystics prescribed crushed quartz crystals to cure severe cases of dysentery
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Because when you are suffering from explosive diarrhea, the obvious solution is to swallow a handful of sharp sand. Long before crystal healing was about balancing your root chakra, Roman naturalists believed quartz was actually ice that had frozen so hard it became permanent. Eating it was supposed to aggressively cool down the body's internal humors.
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