The Dose Makes The Poison Poem by Terence George Craddock (Spectral Images and Images Of Light)

Paracelsus meaning equal
to or greater than Celsus
a famed Swiss Renaissance

alchemist astrologer botanist
physician and general occultist
not first systematic botanist

believed certain balances
of minerals in patient bodies
and also certain illnesses

of body had chemical remedies
remedies that could cure bodies
Paracelsus knew this to be true

“All things are poison,
and nothing is without poison;
only the dose permits

something not to be poisonous.'
In layman’s terms this means
'The dose makes the poison.'

substances considered toxic
are harmless in small doses
but even an ordinarily harmless

substance can
be deadly if
over-consumed


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