For many physiological processes, the process is still a taboo topic, unhealthy and even dangerous.
1. In ancient times, doctors declared menstrual blood poisonous.
2. In the 19th century, doctors thought that menstruation has nothing to do with ovulation. They believed that in this way women are emotionally normalized.
3. Christians considered menses an unclean phenomenon. On these days, women were forbidden to cross the threshold of the temple and take the sacrament.
4. Men considered blood poisoned during "these days". Women were not allowed to touch wine, dough and beer. And in Britain it was believed that a woman should not cook at all during menstruation.
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5. During the period monthly women wore dried flower sachets and nutmegs to hide the "bad" smell.
6. People with red hair suffered. It was believed that if a child was born red, then he was conceived during menstruation.
7. Previously, it was believed that if a woman added a drop of blood to a glass with any drink and served it to a man, he would be attached to her all his life.
8. Europeans believed that blood could cure leprosy.
9. In rural India, women during their periods cannot cook food as they can "defile" it.
10. They use more than 5,000 euphemisms about what cannot be called. Menstrual days are called "these days", "critical days", "affairs", "guests", "red days of the calendar." The French call menstruation "les Anglais ont debarqué", which means "the English have landed," and the Germans call "Erdbeerwoche" - "strawberry week."
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