What Drugs Were Like In Ancient China

When somebody talks about China and recreational drugs in the same sentence, they are mostly referring either to the Opium Wars of the mid-19th century between China and Great Britain or perhaps they are talking about KMT and Khun Sa’s opium empire of the modern times. But Opium wasn’t always the preferred choice of narcotics to get high among the Chinese population. In fact, during the old days, China never saw opium as a recreational drug at all!

And if that fact makes you wonder what herbs were ancient Chinese smoking, welcome to Nutty History, and in this video let’s find out what recreational drugs were popular in ancient China?

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Chapter Timestamps
0:00 Intro to mid-roll ads
0:38 Opium wasn’t always the favorite one
2:50 Cannabis was The King
5:55 The Mushroom of Immortality
7:06 Five Stone Powder

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[pissbaby]

Cannabis and drug anthropology are some of the most interesting things to me about history. Taking a few hits out of my bong feels modern, but to think that humans have been altering our state of consciousness since we've been able to is stupid cool.

[sherlockbonez]

This tells me you will never get your bong clean if they are finding thc 1000 yrs later.

[leann]

reishi does not contain any psychoactive compound. it’s just a mushroom. it is used medicinally by people though, but it won’t make you trip.

[sethnaugle]

"Drugs are bad, mkay."
- Mr. Mackey

[DomCOuano]

Cannabis at funerals? Yo when my time comes, I'm telling everyone to be high when they come to my funeral. Like just chill with me one last time lol

[MyPhobo]

I mean, opium IS a pretty good cure for Diarrhea which we kind of still do today. Immodium which is used for diarrhea is derived from opiates. It just does so in a way that doesn't get you high.

[CallMeByMyMatingName]

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[javad]

Rishi mushrooms have no Chemical compound that make you have a psychedelic experience, or have any property that acts like Xanax.

[hylacinerea]

wonderful video! i find this so interesting because the concept of what is a “drug” and what is “medicine” are both purely made up concepts, this shows how different societies process that distinction

[stormchaser]

I have a small quibble with your point on Reshi, it is not psychoactive, but it does revitalize your body and help you focus.

[DutchBane]

I really like the voice of the narrator. Its such a fresh breeze because americans usually use the epic movie trailer voice guy for everything. I mean, a documentary about sea snails doesnt need to have the epic superhero movie vibe.

[jupiter]

In vikings Ragnar became addicted to Chinese medicine and made him high😂😂

[DankFroot]

A recent study puts the domestication of Cannabis in China 12000 years ago.

[CallMeByMyMatingName]

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[johnpick]

Excellent Series ! History is about people and what actions they take and what influenced those actions ?

[ezraoberheim]

5 stone powder sounds an awful lot like ancient cocaine 🥴

[gregmcb]

OK no way they were using Rashi mushroom to get high unless they used some of the certain dosage or combined it with psilocybin containing mushrooms

[shadymcnasty]

6:45 this dude just compared xannax to hallucinating

[JohnRBIV]

How do you compare Reishi to Xanax? You compared it to a benzodiazepine and then just listed off multiple effects that have nothing to do with Xanax. The scriptwriter must have zero idea what Xanax actually does.

This channel is a worse "Weird History"