[Sca-cooks] European period painkillers

[Mike Newton]

I believe and could be wrong that Opium was a SE and Central Asian drug. I
know that the English fought a war with China over the exportation of the
drug to China by the English. Most of the worlds Opium comes from
Afghanistan and that region of the world.

Thorbjorn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan li Rous" <stefan at texas.net>
To: "SCA-Cooks maillist" <SCA-Cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 11:43 PM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] European period painkillers


> Phlip replied to me
> > --- Stefan li Rous <stefan at texas.net> wrote:
> > > So, what would the period solution to such injuries
> > > be? Were there
> > > any pain killers available? Even if they weren't as
> > > effective?
> >
> > Depending on your when/where, opium and willowbark tea
> > were available.
>
> I guess I should have been more careful how I asked that question.
> I was specifically talking about Europe and the adjacent cultures.
>
> Was opium even known in Europe or the Middle East for that matter?
> The same about willowbark. I thought the willow tree was a New
> World plant.
>
> > Marijuana derivatives, too, I think.
>
> Hemp they had. And Platina does give various recipes using various
> parts of the plant. See hemp-msg. So did the Persians.
>
> > Alcohol, of course. Dunno what else- coca leaves,
> > maybe, in the New World.... Hafta ask an herbalist- I
> > know they used all kindsa diffe3rent herbs for
> > different purposes, and some of them even worked-
> > digitalis, for example, from foxglove, and aspirin
> > from willow bark.....
>
> Again, I believe the American indians used willow bark, but I've
> not seen any indications of the Europeans doing so.
>
> --
> THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
>    Mark S. Harris            Austin, Texas          stefan at texas.net
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