Blue pill may refer to:

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Blue mass Blue mass (also known as blue pill or ''pilula hydrargyri'') was the name of a mercury-based medical treatment for syphilis common from the 17th to the 19th centuries. The oldest formula is ascribed to one Barbarossa, in a letter to Francis I of ...

, sometimes referred to as blue pill, an obsolete mercury-based patent medicine from the 17th century *

Sildenafil Sildenafil, sold under the brand name Viagra among others, is a medication used to treat erectile dysfunction and pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary arterial hypertension. It is also sometimes used off-label for the treatment of certain sym ...

(Viagra), sometimes referred to as the "blue pill" or the "little blue pill", since 1998, a medicine used to treat erectile dysfunction * Slang for

Percocet Oxycodone/paracetamol, sold under the brand name Percocet among others, is a fixed-dose combination of the opioid oxycodone with paracetamol (acetaminophen), used to treat moderate to severe pain. In 2022, it was the 98th most commonly presc ...

, more specifically counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl

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Blue Pill (software) Blue Pill is the codename for a rootkit based on x86 virtualization. Blue Pill originally required AMD-V (Pacifica) virtualization support, but was later ported to support Intel VT-x (Vanderpool) as well. It was designed by Joanna Rutkowska and or ...

, a 2006 proof-of-concept virtual machine based rootkit *

Blues Pills Blues Pills are a Swedish rock band, formed in Örebro in 2011. The band has released four studio albums, two Extended play, EPs, three live albums and five singles since its formation. Their latest studio album, Birthday, was released in Augus ...

, a 2011 Swedish rock band ** ''Blues Pills'' (album), 2014 debut album by Blues Pills * ''

Blue Pills ''Blue Pills'' (original title: ''Pilules Bleues'') is a 2001 Swiss-French autobiographical comic written and illustrated by Frederik Peeters. The comic tells the story of a man falling in love with an HIV-positive woman. The book won the 2001 ...

'', a 2001 autobiographical comic book by Frederik Peeters *

Red pill and blue pill The ''red pill'' and ''blue pill'' are metaphorical terms representing a choice between learning an unsettling or life-changing truth by taking the red pill or remaining in the unquestioned experience of an illusion appearing as ordinary reali ...

, a plot device within the 1999 ''Matrix'' series in which the blue pill symbolizes the blissful ignorance of illusion

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