[HN Gopher] Aphrodisiacs in Medieval Europe
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       Aphrodisiacs in Medieval Europe
        
       Author : BerislavLopac
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2021-03-21 11:41 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | amriksohata wrote:
       | Many Hindus, Hare Krishnas, Jains etc also are told to refrain
       | from Garlic for the same reason, that if you want to go on the
       | path of spirituality, it puts your nervous system into overdrive
       | and can make you angry, tense and sexually avid too
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       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spPZMB_FFG8
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       | This all comes from Ayurveda and Vedas long before medieval
       | times.
        
         | astrange wrote:
         | That's interesting because garlic noticeably lowers your blood
         | pressure, so it should make you more relaxed. Also, nobody will
         | want to come near you because you have garlic breath, which
         | seems like a sexual obstacle.
        
           | jan_Inkepa wrote:
           | In the pre-modern-dentistry world, the mouth was a very
           | different place one imagines...I feel like garlic-breath
           | would've been the least of one's worries...
        
       | jan_Inkepa wrote:
       | I rolled my eyes when I saw it was a video talk, but actually I
       | was talking with a friend about aphrodisiacs last week and wanted
       | to know more about beliefs about them, so this really is
       | scratching an itch. I also find it interesting to hear about how
       | people in distance places/times think/thought about food/cooking
       | (I'm a Levi-Strauss fanboi). Only a few minutes in and he's
       | already relating everything to the theory of the four humours in
       | a way I hadn't heard of before. Don't know if I recommend it as
       | such, but the audience can probably select themselves ^^
       | 
       | Edit: jeepers, it's really dense with facts - really nice to see
       | lots of examples of medieval food-logic worked through.
        
       | airhead969 wrote:
       | EtOH usually works on one gender, while it doesn't have the
       | desired effect on the other in excess.
       | 
       | Whatever you find pleasant is probably the best, because it's all
       | about relaxation. CBD isolate sublingual tincture is probably a
       | good idea too.
        
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