Talk:Bloodbending/@comment-110.55.2.137-20110706153013/@comment-4533483-20110808173536

Olorin The White is correct - since Toph only locates the impurities in man-made purified versions of crude metal ore and then bends them, there is no way she can bend the trace amounts of the pure material in a person's body. That's the reason why she can't bend wood, for example, despite whatever trace metallic elements may have been in the original living plant.