how do you prepare henna? not referring to usage as an ink or dye.?!


Question: How do you prepare henna? not referring to usage as an ink or dye.?
I am 19, I am really smart and enjoy the persuit of knowledge, I am something along the lines of a christian, and I am gay.

I find that my hormones get the better of me constantly, in fact it is almost a constant hinderence and I am getting really irritated with it and how little self discipline I seem to possess.

Henna (I believe that is how it is spelled) is most commonly used as a dye usually in tattoos or in hair coloring, but it has another use. Henna can surpress the chemicals in the brains that generate sexual urges, it is even used by jewish pharisees. I am at my wits end trying to find information on it, I am guessing that because it supresses sexual desire most people find it repulsive or something. I have searched and searched the internet but either I am doing it wrong or Their is not alot of information out there to find.

What I want to know is; what part of the plant is used to create the surpressent, how to prepare it properly, what blood type is it that has the severe allergic reaction.

If you could provide me with a url linking me to a place with all this information or just some of this information I would appreciate it.

Please don't say anything useless or just flat stupid please, some of you guys or girls may value sexual urges but I most certainly do not, it gets in the way of my religion, it gets in the way of my pursuit of knowledge, and I am not in a position to persue it anyhow.

Answers:

Never, ever, ever have I heard anything of the kind, and while I've only been using and researching henna about 7 years, still, you'd think that would have been mentioned somewhere. Henna's been used for lots of stuff, but seriously that's wacky. As for blood types and henna, it's not certain blood types that need to avoid henna. Henna is only dangerous to those with allergies, which are pretty rare, and young people with G6PD, a genetic condition. Adults with G6PD may find henna risky, but it's usually only life threatening in infants with the condition, which is why people won't usually put henna on babies.

Why not ask the future Dr. Cartwright-Jones? She's working on a PhD in henna's use and history. If there's any truth to this, or if there's a story behind this being believed somewhere by people, that's who I'd ask for more info. If she hasn't heard of it, then you might have dreamed this or something.

http://hennapage.com/henna/ccj/
No judgement, but I can promise you if I'd noticed my near constant use of henna on my skin and hair did anything to my sex drive I wouldn't be using it. Talking to a therapist about ways to strengthen your resistance to urges you find distracting would probably be better than looking for chemicals to dull your urges. Learn to deal with and dull the desires you don't want, don't look for ways to drug yourself.



Where have you heard that it is used as an anaphrodisiac, because in twenty years of being around that stuff, I have never heard it.

A middle eastern grocery, an indo-pak grocer might have it - you have to be careful though, because it is often mixed with lead based hair dyes.

Chasteberry (hint, hint, the name) is much more commonly associated with that purpose,as would saw palmetto. However, I would worry about growing breasts. Yes, I'm serious.




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