> How did folk medicine come to know the effects of guanidine? Dunno. The same way we know a lot about other things in the chemistry domain - somebody tasted it, just to see what happens. "Mendeleyev's Dream" is a great book that contains many fascinating anecdotes of people going "let me just lick this, just to try". (Or, if you want to go more modern, the history of hallucinogens is pretty fun too) Humans…
同理，我也推荐 Paul Strathern 的《门捷列夫的梦：元素的寻觅》（Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements）。
In a similar vein also recommend “Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements” by Paul Strathern.
> 民间医学是怎么知道胍（guanidine）的功效的？不知道。就像我们在化学领域了解很多其他东西一样——有人尝了一口，就为了看看会发生什么。《门捷列夫的梦》（Mendeleyev's Dream）是一本很棒的书，里面有很多引人入胜的轶事，讲人们心想“我就舔一口，试试看”。（或者，如果想看更近代的，致幻剂的历史也挺好玩的）人类……
> How did folk medicine come to know the effects of guanidine? Dunno. The same way we know a lot about other things in the chemistry domain - somebody tasted it, just to see what happens. "Mendeleyev's Dream" is a great book that contains many fascinating anecdotes of people going "let me just lick this, just to try". (Or, if you want to go more modern, the history of hallucinogens is pretty fun too) Humans…