Sertraline Salad

 This morning, I want to sit and play Roblox until I get bored. Instead of doing that (oh the urge is pulling at my brain hard though) I am going to learn.

What fruits and vegetables and plants are in my antidepressants?

It always amazes me how things are made. My mum bought a new car from overseas, and while riding in it once, I had a full-blown fangirling attack thinking about how the boat that carried it probably went over at least one anglerfish, whale, or shark. So many fishies got to swim under the car I was in! So I've decided to research what ingredients are in my medicine.

I take Sertraline Sandoz. It has no ingredients on the box, so I'm using a website called NPS.

First roadblock: what's an inactive ingredient? I wanted to ask ChatGPT, but I just Googled and am trusting myself. I don't have to verify everything with it. An inactive ingredient seems to be any ingredient in a medicine that is not the main one, and may be there for taste, form, digestion, etc. Like the strawberry flavouring in Panadol. It's still in the medication, so it's still an ingredient.

Here are the ingredients:

- Sertraline (as hydrochloride)
- Microcrystalline cellulose
- Calcium hydrogen phosphate dihydrate 
- Hyprolose
- Sodium starch glycollate
- Magnesium stearate
- Hypromellose 
- Purified talc
- Titanium dioxide

Second roadblock: what the hell does "as hydrochloride" mean? A Google search tells me it's a salt that is basically... the base... of the sertraline itself. If sertraline is a cake, hydrochloride is the oil on the pan. I think. Maybe. Anyhow, it's just a specific type of sertraline. So what is sertraline and hydrochloride's love child's ingredients?

- Hydrogen
- Chloride

...Third roadblock: I know nothing about chemistry. I hated science in school. I think this (C17H17Cl2N) is the ingredients...? Those are elements, right? Oh, how easy it would be to open ChatGPT and ask if any of the above ingredients are obtained through plants. But I shan't.

The letters mean an element, and the numbers are the amount of atoms of each element.


I count 17 grey balls, 2 green balls, 1 blue ball (LOL), and 17 white sticks. Some of the grey ones have 2 lines between them, and some of them don't. I don't know what that means, but using the letters from before...

C17H17Cl2N = 17 Carbon, 17 Hydrogen, 2 Chlorine, and 1 Nitrogen.

Okay! I already feel like I learnt something. So those green ones are chlorine, which is the same stuff they put in pools. The blue one is nitrogen. How do they make them connect like that, or does it do it naturally? Why do some have 2 lines? A quick search tells me these are bonds, and the more lines, means the stronger bond. Then it told me about sigma pi and I stopped reading. If I wanted sigma pi, I'd ask Siebren to bake.

ANYHOW, let's compose our full list of ingredients so far.

- Hydrogen
- Chloride

- Carbon
- Chlorine
- Nitrogen
- Microcrystalline cellulose
- Calcium hydrogen phosphate dihydrate 
- Hyprolose
- Sodium starch glycollate
- Magnesium stearate
- Hypromellose 
- Purified talc
- Titanium dioxide

Okay! Now, let's see what those mystery ingredients are. Hopefully it's not all just elements... But if it is, at least I learned something. I really wanna play Piggy right now. That's not what I learned, but it is also true.

Microcrystalline cellulose is refined wood pulp! Our first plant. It also gives me a molecular recipe of letters and numbers again when I search it, which worries me, because what if sertraline is also refined wood pulp but they didn't tell me... They use several kinds of woods for this, and also sometimes cotton. How interesting! Let's add some bark to the salad bowl I guess...

Calcium hydrogen phosphate dihydrate seems to be another artificially made thing.

CaH5O6P = 1 Calcium, 5 Hydrogen, 6 Oxygen, 1 Phosphorus. Phosphorus?! Don't they make evil killing gas with that?! Isn't that what babies are made of?! Whatever... Those can go in the weird element corner.

Hyprolose seems to also be artificial. Oyo Yakuri Kenkyukai killed some rats with it. Aww. Can't find a compound for this. Strange.

Bored. Part 2 soon?

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