Post Date May, 14 2023
When ancient medicine was not as developed, did it ever occur to women that they wanted contraception? After going to the pharmacy and telling the pharmacist they wanted it, men went to the makeup shop to buy condoms. How did women use contraception in the past? The following four are the most common contraceptive methods in ancient times, let's take a look together!
Four ancient contraceptive methods
1. Persimmon stem
According to ancient records, there is a folk folk recipe where 7 persimmon stems are roasted with tiles and eaten continuously for 7 days. They are cooled with hot water and can be used for contraception for 1 year. This year, persimmons cannot be eaten. If you want to interpret infertility, eating 7 more persimmon stems may sound very evil, but the flowers, roots, and skin of persimmons are all good Chinese medicinal herbs. The persimmon tree has an effect all over the body. There was a record in a memoir written by a prostitute that she would drink soup for breakfast before receiving guests, The taste is sour and delicious, but after drinking it for a lifetime, I will become infertile. This soup is actually water extracted from persimmon ground powder.
2. Musk
Medicines with cooling herbs containing musk components. Adding this traditional Chinese medicine to the food of prostitutes for breakfast and long-term consumption can lead to lifelong infertility in women. This medicine can not only be taken, but also be placed on the belly button of prostitutes for contraception. This belly button patch is called a patch, but it has been lost.
3. Mercury, arsenic, brucine
Previously, prostitutes had a small amount of mercury in their food, but of course they didn't know. If you know that there is highly toxic mercury in food, women in brothels wouldn't be fooled to eat it. However, according to current scientific explanations, mercury can actually cause menstrual disorders in women, such as excessive menstruation, prolonged menstruation, and menstrual pain. Mercury can also pass through the placental barrier, leading to miscarriage or premature birth. In addition, small amounts of arsenic and brucine also have contraceptive effects, but this type of contraception can lead to permanent infertility.
4. Saffron
According to folk records, if the emperor did not like a palace maid, he asked the eunuch to invert the palace maid and wash the body with saffron, which could clean the semen in the palace maid's body. Another theory is that if the emperor did not want to keep the princess, the eunuch would help massage the woman, and the emperor's semen would not remain in the woman's body
The least credible contraceptive methods
The Safety Period of the Least Trusted Contraceptive Method
The so-called "safe period" refers to the 7 days before and 8 days after menstruation for women. People also refer to it as the first seven and then eight. This period is not the ovulation period for women. At this point, couples in the same room can cause women to conceive, so people call it the safe period.
