Ziggy
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My mother -in law has a old indian recipe book. It has a lot of medicinal remedies in there too.I’d like to know who in history was the first idiot who thought that inhaling burning vegetation is a cool idea - especially given that you have to overcome your body telling you how stupid it thinks it is to inhale the smoke, by making you cough and gag - by forcing yourself to inhale until your lungs give up telling you it’s a bad idea, and you stop coughing and hacking.
I guess they were the first masochist.
I’m also curious how they convinced others it’s a good thing, so that it caught on,
I know that someone will probably say it started as an occult ritual, or some such.
I forget the name of it.
At the back is a section on tobacco leaf. Before they injected it with insecticieds and poison,
they would smoke it to relieve chest congestion, because it would make you cough and loosen up the phlem.
Whether that's true or not I don't know.
I hardly cough, but when I do... it cleans a lot out.
My eyes, my nose.. everything starts watering and sneezing..
on those rare occasions like swallowing liquid the wrong way, must have gone down the wrong pipe...
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