@feha It IS an informed statement. Being a healer seems to mean being a chemist specifically for medicine. She doesn’t have “op mc powers”, she’s just doing tests with her knowledge on plants and chemistry. I haven’t had the chance to do it myself but I heard that identifying the components of an unknown chemical is reallllyyyyy difficult.
Chemicals react in different ways when exposed to other chemicals, heat, pH or something like that and thats how chemists slowly find out the components of something unknown.
Now imagine not having modern tech and with the tiny sample she has, the testing she could have done is pretty limited. Honestly I was surprised that she even found the main ingredient.
Her saying that its probably just an illusion is in my opinion, a valid enough point to have in the story because realistically there is no medicine that can give you a power up as if it were the spinach from popeye. It’s like finding out an LCD-like drug gave steroid-like effects but also its like 100x more powerful than what an actual steroid can do.