क्लीओपात्राची तेलचिंधी, मधचिंधी....What Came Before Condoms?

(पृष्ठ : १००, 'जाळ्यांतील चंद्र', म वा धोंड,१९७७ १९९४/१९९८)

रघुनाथ: रघुनाथ धोंडो कर्वे, शंकर - शंकर धोंडो कर्वे , दिनकर: दिनकर धोंडो कर्वे , भास्कर: भास्कर धोंडो कर्वे
अण्णा : धोंडो केशव कर्वे

तेलचिंधी सारखे घरघुती उपाय....

किती प्राचीन होत तेलचिंधी?

Stacy Schiff, 'Cleopatra: A Life':

"...Had she wanted to, Cleopatra could have availed herself of volumes of advice on contraception and abortion, some of it surprisingly effective. Nothing better revealed the conflicting tides of science and myth, enlightenment and ignorance, between which she lived than the literature on birth control. For each valid idea of Cleopatra’s age there was an equally outlandish belief. Hippocrates’ three-hundred-year-old recipe for inducing miscarriage—jump up and down, neatly touching your heels to your buttocks seven times—made some of the first-century measures look perfectly reasonable. A spider’s egg, attached to the body with deer hide before sunrise, could prevent conception for twelve months. This was no stranger (or more effective) than attaching a cat liver to one’s left foot, but then it was also asserted that a sneeze during sex worked wonders. In Cleopatra’s day crocodile dung was famed for its contraceptive powers, as was a concoction of mule’s kidney and eunuch’s urine. Generally the literature on abortifacients was more extensive than that on contraceptives; the time-tested ingredients for a morning-after pill were salt, mouse excrement, honey, and resin. Long after Cleopatra, it was asserted that the smell of a freshly extinguished lamp induced miscarriage. At the same time, some of the popular herbal remedies of Cleopatra’s age proved effective. White poplar, juniper berries, and giant fennel have qualified contraceptive powers. Others—vinegar, alum, and olive oil—remained in use until recently. Early diaphragms existed, of wool moistened with honey and oil. All offered better results than the rhythm method, of dubious benefit to a people who believed that a woman was at her most fertile around the time of menstruation...."

Early diaphragms existed, of wool moistened with honey and oil.