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Saturday, December 30, 2006

What Ails Ye

www.indiangyan.com is a site that I came across about ten minutes ago while exploring a concept that I'd heard about. Onion (Allium cepa) it turns out is an aphrodisiac. Not just a regular one, the second best. Second to what you'll discover shortly. It's also been stuffed into mummies (the Tutankhamen kind, you perv), been the longest running tear-jerker for most housewives, though Ektaa thinks she can beat that record; sliced, diced, saute-ed, fried but never ever consumed before hitting the sack for some handkerchief-pandkerchief with the significant other when chocolate has failed.
The last thing I can imagine that's a turn on is sulphur breath. Horny, sulphur breath at that too. Anyway for those of you who're interested here's the excerpt from the aforementioned gyan site.

Onion is one of the most important aphrodisiac foods. As an aphrodisiac, onion stands second only to garlic. It increases libido and strengthens the reproductory organs. The white variety of onion should be peeled off, crushed and fried in pure butter. This mixture acts as an excellent aphrodisiac tonic if taken regularly with a spoon of honey on an empty stomach. The powder of black gram when dipped in the juice of onion for seven days and then dried, produces a mixture called kanji. This also acts an aphrodisiac.

More here.

Now if that bad enough the more perceptive of you would have realised is that at the zenith of all randy devices, more potent than rhino horn and tiger claw and the extract of a bull-elephant's prostate is Garlic. Allium sativum. The reek that chinese food gives you is apparently due to indigestible allyl methyl sulphide that seeps into the blood and then has to be gotten rid off by the lungs and skin. Leaving you smelling simply peachy for the better part of a day. The vampire myth is thence by simple extrapolation explained. That isn't the point.

This is. And if you don't feel like scrolling here goes.

Garlic is a natural and harmless aphrodisiac. Even Dr. Robinson, an eminent sexologist of America considered it so. It is a tonic for loss of sexual power from any cause, Sexual debility, impotency from over indulgence in sex and nervous exhaustion from dissipating habit. It is said to be especially useful to old men of high nervous tension and diminishing sexual power.

So Dr. Robinson lived a happy garlicked life, no longer bothered by the impotence of over-indulgence and the nervous exhaustion from dissipating habit. What in God's name is a dissipating habit? It had better not be what I think it is.

So all this came about when I realised that I didn't have any friends from school. Not from high school where I think I have the socially acceptable number of friends and acquaintances and voodoo doll needle stickers, but from kindergarten. Where apparently lifelong friendships take root, etc.
It turns out that my caretakers at the time (I'm not mentioning names here) used to fry a few cloves of garlic in good sesame oil and rub me down with the oil prior to a hot bath and feed me the fried cloves.
Every single day.
So I was the reeking randy four year old. No wonder no one stayed in touch.
More general garlic blade here.
Enjoy.