It's hilarious how common enemas were before contemporary capitalism. People used to blow tobacco smoke up each other's anuses.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 ;-)
Or *in* there, as the case may be.@VictoryRider I wasn't actually suggesting it would be a good idea, just putting the idea out there ;-)
That has actually been extensively discussed on this Forum. Not a good idea.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 ;-)
I really doubt that happened. The people in question would be Native Americans, right?It's hilarious how common enemas were before contemporary capitalism. People used to blow tobacco smoke up each other's anuses.....
Ya. OK. Only Europeans would be that dumb regarding tobacco, of course.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"
"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.]
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.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?!
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.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."
So, hopefully, the sailor thoroughly cleaned the pipe before smoking it again.... Or it was a special pipe he used only for that purpose..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.
Ahh, to puff on some good tobacco from the Southfarthing... Longbottom leaf with just a hint of faeces.
Reminds me of a joke.So, hopefully, the sailor thoroughly cleaned the pipe before smoking it again.... Or it was a special pipe he used only for that purpose..