u/Wonderful-Process-96

So I work at a health grocery store that sells supplements, and I just had a lady ask if we have Borax as a supplement... I tell her I'll check (because im vaguely aware that Borax is a cleaning product but I could be wrong) and let her know that we dont have that but we do have Boron.

Its relatively easy to mix the two up together, so I thought nothing of it. Borax is highly toxic when ingested, so she must be looking for Boron, right?

She goes "Nevermind. Do you guys sell apricot kernels here?" And I'm like okay...so I Google them to see what they might be used for and see if we would have them and turns out they are also highly toxic because of the Cyanide that is produced when they are ingested.

I tell her no, I'm sorry, we dont carry that either, and she leaves. Was homegirl getting some bad TikTok guru advice or was she trying to take someone out?? Should I be calling someone about this or are these not my monkeys lol

Many of the plants in the herbal section look as if theyre wilted and suffering in some way. Brown leaves, drooping stems, and sometimes of them are colored with dark mottled details. Occasionally they will have spots on them as well. I wonder if the person was drawing was not drawing healthy leaves of plants we simply could not identify, as previosuly suspected, but instead drawing unhealthy and dying leaves? Or plants with bug infestations or fungus? That would explain the unusual shapes of leaves that become thin or pointed and tail-like at the ends.

If these plants were cultivated and used by the illustrator, then I wonder if they were cataloging symptoms of plants that were not thriving so that they could learn more about how to avoid it.

Lady asking if we sell Borax and then Apricot Kernels?

Are the herbal sections a visual recording of plants with fungus or blights?