Lots Of Long Words

[poliphilo]

I hadn't thought to check the pills and supplements I take to see if they were vegan- which was remiss of me, but having jacked in the cocodamols I thought I'd do a review of everything else- and it turns out that the things I take for hay fever contain lactose and the ones I take for general all-round wellness are made out of little fishes. Rats! And we have something like a lifetime's supply of the dratted things...

I am sniffly at the moment (shouldn't have been sweeping leaves yesterday) and instead of fishy loratadine I'm taking berberine- which wikipedia tells me is "a quaternary ammonium salt from the protoberberine group of benzylisoquinoline alkaloids found in such plants as Berberis".

"Benzylisoquinoline": try saying that with your mouth full...