Unique, peculiar contraceptives from ancient times to modern times

Before the advent of condoms, the ancient people had devised ways to limit their fertility. Using mercury, saliva and even opium . are the most strange and creepy contraceptive methods of the ancients.

1. Use mercury

Ancient cultures, from Assyria, Egypt to Rome, were all interested in mercury and considered a "miracle ". They use it to treat diseases from skin wounds to syphilis.

Ancient Chinese people used hot mercury to prevent pregnancy. This method is extremely toxic because mercury is an extremely toxic substance, can destroy the kidneys and stomach, in addition to damaging the brain and even leading to death. However, to avoid unintended pregnancy, this method is still used in ancient times in China.

2. Silphium flowers

This flower belongs to the familial family, which is used in the Cyrenaica (Lybia). This is considered a central tree in the Cyrenean economy. This species has many nutritional values ​​and can be used as medicine. People use this plant soaked with alcohol, drink monthly to prevent pregnancy. The amount of alcohol you drink is doubled when you want to avoid emergency contraception, both by drinking and inserting into the vagina.

3. Swing enough

In South Asia and Southeast Asia, green papaya is used to make birth control pills and abortions. When green papaya, it produces a substance that prevents sex hormones from maintaining pregnancy, it is possible to prevent pregnancy and abortion. Papaya seeds can also be used as male birth control pills. Drinking papaya seeds daily can reduce sperm count, even down. When stopping, the sperm count may return to normal.

4. Cotton

During the Ebers Papyrus period , around 1550 BC, women often crushed dates , a branch of acacia and mixed with honey into a mixture. Then apply this mixture on a piece of cotton cloth and put it into the vagina to prevent pregnancy.

The Yankee tribesmen used to chew cotton roots to prevent pregnancy. Because this plant root contains substances that prevent the production of sex hormones that maintain pregnancy, the phenomenon of pregnancy does not occur.

5. Fragrant berry tree

A doctor who lived in the 2nd century in Greece used this plant as a pregnancy pill. Latin American women also eat this tree and drink tea made from this tree to 'plan' . Eating this tree causes the blood to the uterus to be reduced, causing the eggs in the uterus to be nourished and die slowly.

6. Chinese angelica tree

This tree is known for regulating a woman's menstrual ring. Drinking tonic with angelica root will help regulate the menstrual period, reducing the pain caused by 'months' . However, if taking this medicine in the early stages of pregnancy, the white tree only leads to the phenomenon of atrophy, leading to miscarriage .

7. Green Cohosh tree

This plant has two abortifacient substances : oxytocin and caulosaponin , which causes the uterus to shrink. This tree is often used by aboriginal people to prevent pregnancy.

8. Pungent mint plants

Ancient Greeks and Romans used this plant to cook and used to increase flavoring in wine. They also drink peppermint tea to regulate monthly menstruation for contraception.

9. Wild carrots (Queen Anne)

The great Hippocrate doctor used the seeds of this plant more than 2,000 years ago to make birth control pills. This seed also has the effect of preventing the formation of pregnancy-sustaining sex hormones, so it has a very good contraceptive effect within 8 hours after exposure to semen.

10. Lemon

Citric acid is a spermicide. Ancient girls in Persia knew how to soak sponges into lemons, then put them in the vagina to prevent pregnancy.

11. Opium poppy

Ancient Sumatra women used the bark of this plant as a diaphragm when having sex.

12. "Divine" saliva and moonlight

The Greenland people believe that the moon helps pregnant women, so anyone who does not want to become pregnant avoids looking at the full moon. Before going to bed, women will apply saliva to their abdomen to prevent the moon from secretly entering them during sleep.

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There are also people on their stomachs, covering their abdomen so that the moon does not make them pregnant . In case women want to become pregnant, they will be naked under the moon with the belief that moonlight helps conceive.

13. Lubricate with olive oil

The ancient Greeks mixed olive oil and cedar oil to clean the female genital area. Women in this period discovered olive oil that reduced sperm motility, allowing them time to wash "sperms" from people after sex.

Olive oil is also used as an effective natural contraceptive lubricant.

14. Wolf urine

Medieval people are known for many strange inventions in medicine. In it, the strange method of contraception from wolf urine made people laugh today.

Middle-aged women believe that, after having sex and urinating on a position where a wolf once "pissed" will help them not get pregnant. Another theory is that women walk around the place where a pregnant female ever went to the toilet, reading a spell to help prevent stickiness.

15. "Breast cancer cloak" with honey

Honey helps create a diaphragm in the cervix against sperm penetration. Egyptian women also added some other ingredients to honey to prevent pregnancy. It is possible to mix honey with sodium (natural sodium carbonate) and a mixture made from crocodile tails.

16. Tuberose root, mink testicle

In medieval Europe, women use a number of measures such as inserting tuberose roots into the vagina, or tying the testicles of a weasel around the inner thighs when having sex to prevent pregnancy.

The oldest condom dates back to 1640, made from sheep intestine, both works to control pregnancy and prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. However, the method of using condoms only until the 20th century is really popular.

17. Condoms and birth control pills

By the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, new methods of birth control began to thrive. The Malthusian Federation was founded in 1877 in the UK for the purpose of educating the public about the importance of family planning. Here in 1921, the first permanent contraceptive clinic was established, run by midwives and supported by medical doctors.

Dr. Richard Richter developed the first uterine device made from silkworm intestines. Shortly after, chemist Carl Djerassi from Mexico created the first contraceptive in the 1950s, paving the way for widely used contraceptive methods to this day.