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[Edward]

Just watching Bear Grylls. Giving himself an enema to absorb dirty water and hydrate himself. I'm sure kava could be absorbed this way too ;-)

 

[EQ]

Just watching Bear Grylls. Giving himself an enema to absorb dirty water and hydrate himself. I'm sure kava could be absorbed this way too ;-)

It's hilarious how common enemas were before contemporary capitalism. People used to blow tobacco smoke up each other's anuses.
I wonder if they ever did smoke tricks with farts.

 

[Jerome]

Rectum... Damn near killed 'em.

 

[Zac Imiola (Herbalist)]

Hahahahah! @Jerome
And to you @TheanineLife you sir are just a knowledge bank and I need you and I too transfer all we know on herbs/traditions and trade knowledge via telepathy. So it's instant

 

[VictoryRider]

There was another thread about taking kava from the outbound end of the digestive tract, as
@Edward suggests. The long and short of it: BAD IDEA.

And yes, @Jerome, it would damn near kill 'im.

 

[Edward]

@VictoryRider I wasn't actually suggesting it would be a good idea, just putting the idea out there ;-)

 

[Jonathan]

Scoff all you like, but coffee enemas are actually quite good for you and can treat a number of conditions.

I wonder if kava would do the same, but I'd hate to waste it that way, same way I hate to waste good organic coffee on enemas. It's sort of a "yeah, it works, but nah, no thanks" kind of thing for me...

 

[VictoryRider]

@VictoryRider I wasn't actually suggesting it would be a good idea, just putting the idea out there ;-)

Or *in* there, as the case may be.

 

[verticity]

Just watching Bear Grylls. Giving himself an enema to absorb dirty water and hydrate himself. I'm sure kava could be absorbed this way too ;-)

That has actually been extensively discussed on this Forum. Not a good idea.

"Dehydrated from kava's diuretic effect. Better drink my own pee!"

 

[verticity]

It's hilarious how common enemas were before contemporary capitalism. People used to blow tobacco smoke up each other's anuses.....

I really doubt that happened. The people in question would be Native Americans, right?
"Our tribes are now friends; let us smoke the peace pipe."
"Ouch! What the fuck, dude?"

 

[kasa_balavu]

The entire wiki article is hilarious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_smoke_enema
LMAO @ the "passing sailor":
"... in one of the earliest documented cases of resuscitation by rectally applied tobacco smoke, from 1746, when a seemingly drowned woman was treated. On the advice of a passing sailor, the woman's husband inserted the stem of the sailor's pipe into her rectum, covered the bowl with a piece of perforated paper, and "blew hard". The woman was apparently revived."


"Attacks on the theories surrounding the ability of tobacco to cure diseases had begun early in the 17th century... Others claimed... that old people should not smoke as they were naturally dried up anyway"

 

[verticity]

The entire wiki article is hilarious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_smoke_enema
LMAO @ the "passing sailor":
"... in one of the earliest documented cases of resuscitation by rectally applied tobacco smoke, from 1746, when a seemingly drowned woman was treated. On the advice of a passing sailor, the woman's husband inserted the stem of the sailor's pipe into her rectum, covered the bowl with a piece of perforated paper, and "blew hard". The woman was apparently revived."


"Attacks on the theories surrounding the ability of tobacco to cure diseases had begun early in the 17th century... Others claimed... that old people should not smoke as they were naturally dried up anyway"

Ya. OK. Only Europeans would be that dumb regarding tobacco, of course.

That article is a gold mine.

"Nicolás Monardes advocated tobacco as a treatment for a long list of diseases, such as cancer, headaches, respiratory problems, stomach cramps, gout, intestinal worms and female diseases ['female diseases'? Would that be rectally administered, or ... um ... ?]."

"In an attempt to discourage disease tobacco was also used to fumigate buildings" [WTF, Rennaissance Europeans?]

"Tobacco smoke enemas were also reportedly used by 19th-century Danish farmers, for horses that needed laxatives..."

" Richard Mead was among the first Western scholars to recommend tobacco smoke enemas to resuscitate victims of drowning, when in 1745 he recommended tobacco glysters to treat iatrogenic drowning caused by immersion therapy" ['Iatrogenic' means a health problem caused by doctors attempting to cure another health problem. So they would dunk people under water to 'cure' something or other, and when they almost drowned, blow smoke up their ass to revive them.]

 

[Edward]

Those crazy Europeans eh? Seriously though, if you've ever seen any German porn you'll know anything is possible... smoke up the ass, why not?!

 

[verticity]

Those crazy Europeans eh? Seriously though, if you've ever seen any German porn you'll know anything is possible... smoke up the ass, why not?!

Yeah, I would also include non-native people in former colonies of European powers (e.g. me)... We have a way of finding things used in a traditional culture, and then perverting it to be used in ways that are not traditional at all with unknown effects: This could apply to kava as well as tobacco.

And German porn... nope, nope, nope.

 

[dino9832]

The entire wiki article is hilarious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_smoke_enema
"... in one of the earliest documented cases of resuscitation by rectally applied tobacco smoke, from 1746, when a seemingly drowned woman was treated. On the advice of a passing sailor, the woman's husband inserted the stem of the sailor's pipe into her rectum, covered the bowl with a piece of perforated paper, and "blew hard". The woman was apparently revived."

Oh man, if you stuck a pipe up my butt, I'd be "revived" also! I cry when my finger goes through the toilet paper..lol.

 

[verticity]

Oh man, if you stuck a pipe up my butt, I'd be "revived" also! I cry when my finger goes through the toilet paper..lol.

So, hopefully, the sailor thoroughly cleaned the pipe before smoking it again.... Or it was a special pipe he used only for that purpose..

 

[kasa_balavu]

Ahh, to puff on some good tobacco from the Southfarthing... Longbottom leaf with just a hint of faeces.

 

[verticity]

Worst. Job. In. The. World.: 19th Century Danish farmer with a constipated horse...

 

[verticity]

Ahh, to puff on some good tobacco from the Southfarthing... Longbottom leaf with just a hint of faeces.

 

[VictoryRider]

So, hopefully, the sailor thoroughly cleaned the pipe before smoking it again.... Or it was a special pipe he used only for that purpose..

Reminds me of a joke.

Jesse and Zeke worked on a beef farm with a very mean bull. The bull was mean because it was cross-eyed.

Jesse: "Wish I could fix that bull. He wouldn't be so mean".
Zeke: "I can fix it. Grab that garden hose."
Zeke took the hose, inserted one end wayyyy up the bull's ass, put the other end in his mouth, and blew very hard.
Astonishinly, the bull's eyes straightened out! The bull was happy and proceded to frolic in the meadow.

A couple days later the bull's eyes crossed again. Zeke says, "Jesse, better get the hose again".
Jesse took the hose and began inserting the CLEAN end into the bull's ass. He was just about
to put the dirty end into his mouth...

Zeke: "Jesse! That's the end that was in the bull's ass the other day!"
Jesse: "Geez. You don't think I'm gonna blow on the same end of the hose as YOU did, DO YOU????"