Another datapoint: I tried this a while back with mustard powder in warm water. I ate some chocolate, then downed around a cup of warm water with mustard powder (I forget how much powder it was). This was insufficient to make me vomit; I only felt slightly nauseated. I tried using my finger, wrapped in toilet paper, to agitate my uvula (the thing that hangs from the roof of the mouth behind the tongue). This made me gag, but not vomit. I tried again the next day, with the same results. I may have eaten slightly less chocolate after this, but I failed to develop any long-lasting taste aversion.
I tried to get hold of syrup of ipecac before trying the mustard powder, but nobody sells it, not even online, except homeopathically—not even on eBay, or on sketchy chemistry-supply websites. It stopped being sold around 2005 because a review said that it’s not useful for curing poisoning. (Because vomiting doesn’t always get rid of poison, and it complicates the diagnosis. So the main reason isn’t that it’s bad for you, although it’s obviously bad for you too.)
I don’t think warm water and mustard make for a very good emetic. Next time I or someone else tries this, I think we should try the finger-in-mouth technique, together with syrup of ipecac (if that can be obtained), or smelling extremely powerful bad smells, or maybe warm saltwater.
I also looked around on pro-bulimia boards online (yes, such things exist), but they didn’t seem to have any ideas beyond what’s listed above.
Bad smells wont work since the pavlovian association will be with the smell. We have to do it through transcranial magnetic stimuli to the pons and Area Postrema, like they do in rodents. In rodents it works perfectly.
Anyone know how to do that? I’d be very happy to vomit in an EEG or FMRI
Another datapoint: I tried this a while back with mustard powder in warm water. I ate some chocolate, then downed around a cup of warm water with mustard powder (I forget how much powder it was). This was insufficient to make me vomit; I only felt slightly nauseated. I tried using my finger, wrapped in toilet paper, to agitate my uvula (the thing that hangs from the roof of the mouth behind the tongue). This made me gag, but not vomit. I tried again the next day, with the same results. I may have eaten slightly less chocolate after this, but I failed to develop any long-lasting taste aversion.
I tried to get hold of syrup of ipecac before trying the mustard powder, but nobody sells it, not even online, except homeopathically—not even on eBay, or on sketchy chemistry-supply websites. It stopped being sold around 2005 because a review said that it’s not useful for curing poisoning. (Because vomiting doesn’t always get rid of poison, and it complicates the diagnosis. So the main reason isn’t that it’s bad for you, although it’s obviously bad for you too.)
I don’t think warm water and mustard make for a very good emetic. Next time I or someone else tries this, I think we should try the finger-in-mouth technique, together with syrup of ipecac (if that can be obtained), or smelling extremely powerful bad smells, or maybe warm saltwater.
I also looked around on pro-bulimia boards online (yes, such things exist), but they didn’t seem to have any ideas beyond what’s listed above.
Bad smells wont work since the pavlovian association will be with the smell. We have to do it through transcranial magnetic stimuli to the pons and Area Postrema, like they do in rodents. In rodents it works perfectly.
Anyone know how to do that? I’d be very happy to vomit in an EEG or FMRI