Current Events > Doctors warn women against putting wasp nests in their vaginas

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http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/seriously-dont-put-wasps-nests-in-your-vagina/

Doctors are warning against a pseudoscientific practice that involves eating and putting mushed up oak galls into the vagina, claiming it's an “organic” way to clean, heal, and tighten the vagina.

The product was being peddled by a Malaysian “health shop” on the e-commerce site Etsy. The instructions advise customers to boil the oak galls and then use them as a feminine hygiene wash around the time of their period. It also advises drinking one boiled oak gall for 40 days to “restore elasticity of the uterine wall.”

Oak galls (aka oak apples) are small spheres, usually 2 to 4 centimeters (1 to 2 inches) in diameter, that are formed by gall wasps. The larvae of the wasps live within these galls, which they create by inducing the tree to produce abnormal growths.

The shop's listing, which has since been removed, explains: “The galls, which contain tannin and small amounts of gallic acid and ellagic acid have antimicrobial qualities and are used in South East Asia, Malaysia, and Indonesia by women after childbirth to restore the elasticity of the uterine wall."

“Some women take mankanni [oak galls] to improve their sex life; some say that it can tighten vagina, so they say.”

Don’t be fooled by this pseudoscientific spiel, there’s zero evidence to suggest it works and it's potentially dangerous. On top of that, it also highlights many popular misconceptions about sexual health and the vagina. Namely, the myth that only tight and dry vaginas are desirable and healthy.

Dr Jen Gunter, a certified gynecologist, dispelled the practice in a blog post called: “Don’t put ground up wasp nest in your vagina.” Dr Gunter explains that the product will dry out the vagina and mess with its natural pH and healthy bacteria.

“Drying the vaginal mucosa increases the risk of abrasions during sex (not good) and destroys the protective mucous layer (not good). It could also wreak havoc with the good bacteria. In addition to causing pain during sex it can increase the risk of HIV transmission... This is a dangerous practice with real potential to harm,” writes Dr Gunter.

“Here’s a pro-tip, if something burns when you apply it to the vagina it is generally bad for the vagina,” concludes Dr Gunter.

This isn’t the first bizarre alternative medicine for vaginas found on the corners of the Internet. Last year, there were reports of an equally dangerous trend of “herbal tampons” used to freshen and purify the vagina. The teabag-like product contains a mix of perfumed herbs such as motherwort, angelica, borneol, rhizoma, and Cnidium monnieri. Much like this oak gall, it was a load of unscientific bullshit.

expected florida got malaysia
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Oak galls (aka oak apples) are small spheres, usually 2 to 4 centimeters (1 to 2 inches) in diameter, that are formed by gall wasps. The larvae of the wasps live within these galls, which they create by inducing the tree to produce abnormal growths.

Nature is goddamn amazing sometimes
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Imagine going to town on a chick who has ground up wasp larvae all up in there.
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Who the f*** wants to f*** a dry vagina? What the hell
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That's just big pharma trying to reel people back in.
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...but women sticking wasp nests in their vagina is my fetish!
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This is how mutant wasp men are created

“Here’s a pro-tip, if something burns when you apply it to the vagina it is generally bad for the vagina,” concludes Dr Gunter.

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Was anybody else expecting a punch line instead of an actual article?

Expected southeast Asia, got southeast Asia.

smoliske posted...

Namely, the myth that only tight and dry vaginas are desirable and healthy.

who tf is pining after dry vags?
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Don't be like that lady from RE7
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Typical doctors thinking they know more than eastern natural medicine

geez, i wonder what 2018 has in store for us.
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Group text sent.
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I wish scientists would stop trying to interfere with the process of natural selection.

Soviet_Shurima posted...

expected florida got malaysia

Malaysia is basically Florida: The Country
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this is some Gwynyth Pawltrow shit
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all of my wat
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Don't tell me how to live, asshole doctors.

Bzzzzzzzz

foxhound101 posted...

“Here’s a pro-tip, if something burns when you apply it to the vagina it is generally bad for the vagina,” concludes Dr Gunter.

Yeah, my lightsaber dildo begs to differ.

Uhhhhh
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yeah...

imagine needing to be told this you know some 1 did it for them to warn others not to
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That's nuthin, there was a news story about a woman needing doctor's help in getting a potato out of her vagina after it started sprouting roots inside of her.
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damn, there go my spa day plans :/
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Wasps? In MY vagina?

It's more likely than you think.
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Yall wont believe how superstitious SE asia is.

Everyday i am surrounded with these people that still believe in spirit, mysticism, hex, etc. An ugly guy dating a pretty lady, ooh the guy must have charmed her using shamans! A store getting a customer? They must have used shamans!

Hell my fuckinv university paid 200 dollars to a shaman to make sure it doesnt rain in a university anniversary. They plant these sticks with onion and garlic impaled around the campus ground to make sure it aint raining.

I fucking hate this country and this is why our countries will never be a developed country. The people themselves are as dumb and gullible as a rock.

I tried to fucking explain sleep paralysis to a co worker and she thought a demon sat on her during sleep amd dont believe a fucking sleep paralysis is a natural phenomenon and not a god damn demon sitting on someone.

Fuck, i feel like i am,living in some fantasy RPG witj magics and stuff sometimes
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apolloooo posted...

I tried to fucking explain sleep paralysis to a co worker and she thought a demon sat on her during sleep amd dont believe a fucking sleep paralysis is a natural phenomenon and not a god damn demon sitting on someone.

in her defense, shes not wrong
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It's like every culture and custosm are based on ancient superstition that some people try to use pseudoscience to make the lie bigger than it is.
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I had a wasp nest in my ass before I even opened this thread.
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q
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bump
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gunplagirl posted...

Wasps? In MY vagina?

It's more likely than you think.

lol
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This mother of 5 revolutionized vaginas with this WEIRD trick!
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kewldude475 posted...

Capn Circus posted...

That's just big pharma trying to reel people back in.

Underrated post

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