I got approved for medicinal herb! 🍃😁
It's still illegal in Australia without a prescription (or unless you live in Canberra). It's going to help both my physical and mental health so much. 🥺
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I made some Puffin’ Pyro steam pfps for my bf to match my Marijuana Medic pfps. This shit amuses me to no end 👍
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JINSHI: Suiren PRAISED YOUR WORK,SO.. | WAS
THINKING OF GIVING YOU A REWARD.
Maomao: THIS WHOLE AREA IS PERFECT FOR
PLANTING SOME MEDICINAL PLANTS.
THEN, CAN | WEED THE INNER PALACE AS WELL?
Jinshi: You CALL THAT A RE-WARD?
IT'S ALL FOR THE SAKE OF HER MEDICINE SUPPLY😂🤣
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Hi! I’d like to start writing ATLA fanfiction, and I would like medicine to feature prominently. Your post on Chinese medicine was helpful, but there are still some questions I have and don’t know where to start looking.
I’m stumped on what to call pain-killers that “knock you out”. My mind keeps going to “milk of the poppy” from ASOIAF/GOT, but idk if that would be anachronistic? As a westerner, opiates naturally come to mind but I wonder if anything similar/ different was used across Asia. I’m also aware of the very damaging history of opiates in China by European imperialists, so idk if it’s inclusion in ATLA storytelling would be in bad taste? There’s also naming to consider…. Well, it’s just been on my mind!
Do you have any thoughts on this, or suggestions of things I could look into?
Thanks!!!
Yeah, I think it would be in poor taste to bring up opium-as-medicine in an Asian-inspired world.
As far as traditional Asian painkillers go, there's mafeisan (麻沸散). About 1800 years ago, there was a Chinese physician named Hua Tuo (華佗). His claim to fame was being the first person in China to use an anesthetic during surgery. The concoction he came up with was rice wine boiled with mafeisan, literally meaning "hemp boiling powder". Despite its name, the exact ingredients of mafeisan are unknown and the recipe for it basically died with Hua Tuo. Being a nearly 2000 year old drug composed of mysterious herbs, mafeisan has a mythic quality that (I think) fits the ATLA-world nicely.
A few ingredients that some TCM specialists believe made up mafeisan include hashish, datura flower, aconite root, rhododendron flower (Chinese azalea), and/or jasmine root.
In any case, I can imagine Iroh being familiar with mafeisan. Given how much time he spent in the military, he likely learned a few things from the battlefield physicians. Perhaps his fascination with tea stems from his skills in boiling mafeisan and other tea-like medicines.
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SPOILERS FOR EPISODE 12 of DUNGEON MESHI!
Laios after getting chewed out about Kensuke being a living armor sword monster even though it has helped out the group in numerous occasions: I’m sorry guys 😔
Marcille after people explain to her that ancient magic is sort of a no go and heavily frowned upon:
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