Drugs in Ancient Egypt

According to several specialized historians in Egyptian mythology, ancient Egyptians were drug users. Of course they were looking for mostly curative results but it was also possible to know that they used them to provoke trance states, long fasts, fall asleep and lose fear of certain situations.

Among the most used species was hemp for its trance-inducing properties, Opio that had great acceptance in Egyptian society, the poppy plant, whose properties are related in the Ebers Papyrus, which was used for its effects sedatives and anesthetics.

They were also regular consumers of mandrake whose properties were hallucinogens and anesthetics, Jimson weed, known as «datura stramonium »used a lot by magicians and exorcists. As these examples demonstrate, drugs have been used for centuries in different civilizations and although it is difficult to believe in Ancient Egypt they also used it.


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  1.   TokitoPyramidal said

    I will always be grateful to the Egyptians for having created the necessary almagamas to reconstruct an isosceles triangle. They were very adept at storing the mercorcha in comfortable rooms to prevent the pharaohs from profiting from the beneficial properties of the periko. Nefertiti will be considered emblems of a select era k until today it remains in the chandelier

  2.   Master Horchatero said

    Always with an eye to the sky, with that gaze lost for opiates and singularly ambitious for the cost, the Egyptians offered an exkisita variety yes sir, my horchata made with products brought from the confines of Mesopotamis are recommended by Father Peyton and company, an unprecedented trip to the pyramid world!

  3.   copernicus parakeet said

    I find the world of drugs fascinating from the Egyptian point of view, always taking from nature the extracroses of amiaco needed to travel from the beginning of the carnival to the last after ... letter to the Corinthians 12/1