title: Blue pill
text: # Blue pill
  
  Blue pill may refer to:
  
  ## Drugs
  
  * Blue mass, sometimes referred to as blue pill, an obsolete mercury-based patent medicine from the 17th century
  * Sildenafil (Viagra), sometimes referred to as the "blue pill" or the "little blue pill", since 1998, a medicine used to treat erectile dysfunction
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Blue Pill (software), a 2006 proof-of-concept virtual machine based rootkit
  * Blues Pills, a 2011 Swedish rock band
     * Blues Pills (album), 2014 debut album by Blues Pills
  * Blue Pills, a 2001 autobiographical comic book by Frederik Peeters
  * Red pill and blue pill, a plot device within the 1999 Matrix series in which the blue pill symbolizes the blissful ignorance of illusion
  