Yes friends urine luck, as I tell you the history of Urine Mouthwash. Well back before the days of Listerine and Scope, people needed something powerful enough to cure the breath of a dragon. Already used as a way to clean laundry someone must have said, “If it cleans my sheets, it has to do wonders on my teeth and breath”.
But Ancient Romans being Romans didn’t just want their own fluids. No they wanted to import the stuff from as far away as Portugal. In fact it became such a profitable and popular item that Nero did what all governments like to do….he taxed it.
I am sure you can find practitioners of the practice today still but I wasn’t adding that to my research. You can find out for yourself. haha
eww
I didn’t say the education you received here was going to not gross you out.
Thanks for that piece of trivia Bearman! 😀
You should have seen the look of horror on my friend’s face last week when I let him know that sweat is 10% urine.
Wait till I tell him this one! 😀
I might have to stop licking the sweat off my upper lip going forward
‘the portuguese are still, to this day, selling urine mouthwash – under the guise of ‘Vinho Verde
I will have to look that up
I’ll keep my bad breath thankyouverymuch. That is just, well wrong on so many levels.
Have a fabulous day. 🙂
Thank goodness we have moved beyond those years.
Hmm, interesting? Anyone want some authentic Aussie Loon Urine, I’m selling for $10 a bottle plus $2 GST.
WE don’t pay GST here.
Your post left a bad taste in my mouth.
😯 Wombat wee could only be sweet 🙂
I bet Peter’s carpets smell haha
Believe it or not we do have toilets up here! But if you come visiting, I’ll put a carpet out for you.
I just shit in the woods
Not too surprising.
That’s what Bears do
A piece of History I never new about . . . YUCK!
And that’s why you visit here
Wow wash my mouth with soap. If this practice makes a comeback it would be a good reason to out and get pissed.
I’d have to be drunk to drink it
I feel in our society with crap,herbal cures I could make a killing off this.
It would be your PEEce de resitance’
HIlarious!!!!!!!
thanks
I’ve heard that urin is good for soar throats….but then again so is a Halls lozange
I’ll stick with Halls
Why was I never taught this in school?
Just like you never were taught that Pompeii was just a big orgy city
And I thought “Taking the piss” was just a slang for making fun of someone. GROSS!!!
I can’t help wonder though what’s so great about Portugese urine.
It wasn’t Rome….exotic
Bad breath? Urine trouble.
Definitely
That’s only the fourth or fifth most obscenely disturbing thing I’ve heard about the Romans (you don’t want to know what ranks higher up on the Disgust-O-Meter).
That’s a nice piece of gross out info, Bearman! I saw a book on Amazon about urine diet or something.
I found it. Here it is:
Urine Therapy – How To Drink Your Own Urine
How did I come across this title? I don’t know!
Milk, Milk, Lemonade. Around the Corner, Fudge is Made… please don’t tell us what the Romans do with the fudge… no one needs to know! …. EVER! [yeeesh]