Tegan Taylor
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first heard Mar 2020
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What sort of things do you think people have rinsed their mouths out with over the years, Norman?
Uh, there's an ancient Chinese medical text from about maybe twenty-six hundred BC E that advises treating gingivitis or periodontus with the urine of a child.
As a mouthwash.
By accident.
I'm very glad to say I cannot relate.
But yeah, if you've got that story, we want to hear it.
Our email address is that rash at abc.net.au.
Uh the ancient Chinese also had some more familiar uh mouth rinses.
Salt water, a big one.
It's it's ancient.
Tea and wine, um, because they have antiseptic properties.
Um, Hippocrates, it's pretty hard to talk about ancient medicine without mentioning Hippocrates.
He
He said a mixture of salt, alum, and vinegar, which again, not unfamiliar sort of goggles and.
No,
Yeah, and salt water.
I mean, even now if you have dental surgery, they'll often recommend uh salt gargles to help keep your mouth healthy and and sort of ward off bacteria.
And it was also a common practice in the Americas.
So there was through North America and Mesoamerica mouthwashes including from a plant called Coptus trifolia, which is related to Renunculus.
And so it looks a bit like parsley, but they would make a saltwater mouth.
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