I remember once reading (It was a work of fiction, but still) ‘This is Deadeye Wilson. He is not a great marksman. He acquired the nickname after passing out one night and sleeping with the left side of his face in a bow of moonshine. He woke up with a hangover and a burned out cornea’
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It also works with nicotine. Try searching the web on “clyster”. There was a great enema fad in France. Besides trying many different liquid mixtures, the clyster tobacco pipe was invented. I am not making this up. After careful insertion of the nozzle, the enema professional would blow smoke up the patient’s ass- literally. The stimulant effect was said to be rather dramatic. The smoke clyster was recommended for reviving somebody who had fainted or drowned.
It was all the rage for Swedish youth a few years back (might still be, for all I know). You would soak a tampon in liquor and put it up your vagina or, if you happened not to be equipped with a vagina, your rectum.
I once heard that alcoholics that had developed ulcers so bad that they couldn’t drink would get their fix by taking alcohol enamas. I really don’t feel like Googling “J&B enamas” though. One must draw the line.
To elaborate (ad nauseum, literally), the main purpose of the rectum is to absorb water; it does its job well and absorbs alcohol just as well. Beyond that, achohol enemas bypass the body’s natural defenses against alcohol poisoning: you might get too wasted to pour and drink another drink but still be able to (sheesh, I’m not going to describe it, but you could probably do it while drunk.) Perhaps more importantly, you won’t throw up if you had too much, and the hospital can’t pump something out that has already been absorbed by the large intestine.
Well, since my last post I asked one of my Russian neighbors about this. He’s known for building stills and making vodka, so I figured he would know. His accent is thick, But I can usually understand him. Not today though. He did say he had heard of it. But, he kept slurring and slipping into Russian. I figured that he’d be sober at 10:30 am. Nope. He’s drunk off his ass.
You know, I have a feeling I am really going to regret asking about this, but how, exactly, does one go about getting a soaking wet, soggy tampon into either of these orifices?
ChaoticDonkey One of us has been whooshed. If that smiley isn’t your way of saying ‘I never went more than 5 minutes during that visit without drinking some bier’ it may be me. If not, re-read my last post.
I never did it myself, so I’m not entirely sure. I believe they wringed the tampon somewhat before inserting it, and my limited knowledge of medicine (Qadgop, get in here) leads me to believe that failing to do so would have rather unpleasant consequences.
As did this practice, by the way. Adjusting dosage is difficult and there were several hospitalizations.
You are confusing absorption and intoxication. As I said, I’m not aware of specific medical literature on the rate of absorption, but rectal administration can lead to greater/more rapid effects (and toxicity) despite possibly slower absorption. We actually use this in administering certain medical drugs.
The veins that drain most tissues follow a path roughly paralleling the arteries that feed them, but there are several important exceptions. The blood supply of the “gut” (liver, spleen, stomach, small and large intestines) is one. These organs get their primary supply of oxygenated blood from trunks that come from the aorta, but instead of flowing back to the aorta’s venous counterpart (the ven cava) the blood from most of the gut flows therought hte hepatic portal vein to the LIVER.
The stomach/intestines are primarily meant to absorb chemicals–foreign chemical. Since you never know what chemicals might be in that last plant you ate, a quick detour to the liver for detoxification is only wise, instead of releasing all foreign chemicals, willy-nilly, into the general circulation. (The liver’s own metabolic needs are met by these absorbed chemicals, supplemented by “fresh” blood from the aorta, via the hepatic artery) Alcohol is one of the chemicals the liver detoxifies.
However, as I noted the colon (the last part of the intestines) and specifically the rectum (the last part of the colon) really don’t absorb much–mostly water. Infact, you wouldn’t want to absorb much, because the colon is mostly full of bacteria that could kill you if they entered the blood (the crypts and pits I mentioned have lots of immune cells and lymph nodes) and the stuff the rest of your digestive system didn’t find worth absorbing. The only reason they left the water in untiol the end was to help make the "crud’ easier to pump downstream.
While the superior rectal vein empties into the portal hepatic vein for detox, the middle and inferior rectal veins drain into vena cava (in much the same way as the veins of the abdominal and pelvic wall do) if you put alcohol in the lower rectum, it can bypass the liver, and enter the general circulation without being detoxified by the liver. Evolution had no idea you’d do a damnfool thing like that. It expected all alcohol to be absorbed easily far higher in the digestive tract.
This could get you drunk faster and cause alcohol toxicity with less alcohol, even if absorption is slower in the rectum than the stomach and small intestine! Alcohol [and other chemicals in liquor) absorbed “upstream” go to the liver to be destroyed/changed before they are allowed into the general circulation to reach (e.g.) the brain. Absorbing them in the lower rectum bypasses this protection for a bigger systemic “hit” with less absorbed toxin.
Anyone considering rectal alcohol shouldn’t just “do a lot of research on it first.” They should ask themselves why it is so all-fired important to them to bypass one of their body’s basic protections. Liquors contain many chemicals besides alcohol – some only allowed for human consumption because they were ‘grandfathered in’ by centuries of use–oral use. Taking them rectally, is somewhat akin to ‘mainlining’ them by injection. It may not be very safe.
Another concern might be damage to the rectal mucosa. You know how liquor burns your throat? It does the same to your rectal lining-- then barrier keeping countless ‘crappy’, potentially lethal, bugs out of your bloodstream. Alcohol also impedes the function of all the immune tissues in your rectal wall.
I wasn’t aware of the practice in Sweden, but it was widely reported among Finnish girls have traditionally drunk less and at later ages than their male counterparts, or girlss in other European nations.
I’m not sure how widespread the phenomenon actually was. (It may have been limited to one school or clique. It may have been discussed among teens more than actually practiced), but there was a flurry of international publicity by the news services in March 1999.
