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Eating food that has been cooked with poppy seeds may cause you to fail a drug screening test, because the seeds contain enough opiate alkaloids to register as a positive.
When blood is exposed to air, it clots. Heparin allows the blood to come in direct contact with air without clotting.
Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.
Historic treatments for rheumatoid arthritis have included gold salts, acupuncture, a diet consisting of apples or rhubarb, nutmeg, nettles, bee venom, bracelets made of copper, prayer, rest, tooth extractions, fasting, honey, vitamins, insulin, snow collected on Christmas, magnets, and electric convulsion therapy.
The FDA recognizes 118 routes of administration.