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Originally Posted by YYYY
These are the known arsenic compounds in Sea Water.
There are no arsenides as far as I know.
Is there actually such a thing as an Arsenide?
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"poison" is a much maligned and mis-used word. (One of my pet bugs is when people talk about "poisonous plants" as if they are out there waiting to get you and strangle you)
Almost anything,
in the right dose, can kill you.
In that sense, then, everything in your list is poisonous.
The body has developed lots of wondrous mechanisms designed to control most environmental toxins. Not least of which is the sloughing off of the intestine cell wall every few days.
Even unknown and "new" toxins (like DDT) are carted off by the body and 'safely' stored away, out of harm's way, in fat cells. Some say personal allergens are dealt with in the same way. (This is one reason why you fell so shitty when dieting).
Homeopathy is weird branch of herbal medicine which takes toxic substances and dilutes them so much you couldn't pick them up on a gas cromatograph.
The theory goes that if Arsenic makes you fall-down-and-froth-at-the-mouth;
then any disease that has symptoms of fall-down-and-froth-at-the-mouth can be cured by a homeopathic (read, 'infinitesimal tiny') tincture of the herb/compound that does the same thing in
full dose form
The theory is "like cures like".
A fiend of mine swears by snake-venom homeopathic tincture for his Hay Fever
So if you believe in homeopathy you could say that poison makes you well
As we al know one sleeping pill (in the good old days when they had decent strength drugs) will put you to sleep; too many will kill you.
So the short answer to your question is:
Who knows? but probably no, they are not drop-down-dead poisonous in sea water or salt.
