Reverse Tourniquet

[00:00] Coalson, I think it's time for another under google. What can we answer for you this week?
[00:11] We do under google rules that was the plan super excited told us we had to
[00:19] We signed up for it
[00:23] In the end it's going to be better and more true than google can give you
[00:28] so
[00:29] I was uh
[00:32] I I came up with this one uh earlier. Um
[00:36] This this summer and I wrote it down and I needed your help, but it seemed
[00:41] I proposed this morning. Uh when I woke up
[00:44] Uh, what's the origin of cottonmouth?
[00:48] It's getting getting drunk
[00:54] The the term cottonmouth the term cotton
[00:57] Yeah, it seems kind of like I mean we have uh, we have cottonmouth snakes, right don't we?
[01:06] Yeah, okay
[01:08] Um, it's cottonmouth just like because there's like it feels like i'm eating cotton in my mouth. Is that that's how it is
[01:12] That's all it is or is there some other story to this? I mean, that's my guess
[01:17] That's the I think that's the obvious choice, but are there copper melts
[01:22] There's our cotton mouth snakes. That's a thing
[01:25] I I believe so I thought so
[01:30] Yeah, and they're poisonous, right?
[01:32] Yeah
[01:35] Uh, okay
[01:36] So is that connected?
[01:38] Or did I just make up that that's a thing?
[01:41] If you know those are real if you get that's okay. If you get bit by a cottonmouth snake, do you uh dehydrate and you're
[01:49] Maybe that's part of it. Who knows?
[01:53] That's probably not right
[01:55] That's also so the cottonmouth is uh
[01:58] It's also the name for the water moccasin
[02:02] Ah, that's how I know it. Okay, gotcha
[02:06] Where I come from which is distinct from where you guys come
[02:09] We call it the water moccasin. I see it's really losing touch with your roots there
[02:17] Damn east coast bias
[02:20] Um, so so you just think it's it's like it's like the feeling of your mouth. That's where it comes from
[02:27] So
[02:29] The cottonmouth snake I mean for the for the people I feel like yeah, your your mouth is just super dry and it feels like you've got
[02:38] You know cotton the mouth, okay
[02:41] How long ago do you think this happened? Yeah, exactly. When do you think this term came about?
[02:48] Is this like, uh, is this like a wild west?
[02:53] Uh early 1800s sort of thing
[02:57] Um
[03:00] Is it go back further than the americans is this a it's an old european saying
[03:05] Is this shakespeare?
[03:07] I mean, I feel like it's got to be like
[03:10] post-industrial revolution. Yeah, so why?
[03:13] Okay, why when cotton well, so
[03:16] That cotton wasn't like in wide use, right?
[03:19] And also when you think of like the kind of cotton that we're thinking of is the fluffy gauzy
[03:24] Medical stuff, right and then middle ages. They didn't believe in
[03:29] medicine
[03:31] Okay, sure
[03:33] Yeah
[03:35] They actually wanted you to bleed more. Yes
[03:38] Let's put bleaches on you and stuff that'll be good it's making a comeback actually good really is
[03:47] Some sort of reverse tourniquet they were using
[03:51] Like fashion medicine is cyclical
[03:54] Okay, so now that you bring up the gauze thing
[03:57] What about it? Could it be related to dentistry?
[04:00] Did we first start coming up with this when they start putting cotton gauze in your mouth?
[04:05] for
[04:07] dental procedures
[04:10] Sure, and they were probably also giving you some sort of
[04:16] Opioid or something
[04:18] They started hammering on your face
[04:21] At the barber which was also the dentist
[04:25] Feels like I have cotton in my mouth man
[04:29] Maybe this was a wild west thing. I don't know
[04:33] All right. Yeah, i'm going wild west drunk
[04:36] cowboys on the range
[04:38] I also like drunk cowboys. I think it's a good and being like, uh
[04:42] Yeah, feels like I got cotton in my mouth
[04:46] or maybe the remedy
[04:47] to the dry mouth was
[04:50] You'd like get bit by a cotton mouth or something or you like go out and
[04:54] Eat a eat a cotton mouth snake or something. Maybe that's where the cotton candy came from
[04:59] It's uh cured a cotton mouth
[05:02] I think the the cotton mouth I think has a white mouth. That's my guess is why
[05:07] Like the inside of the mouth is what's always about race with you in the gym
[05:12] The just the inside of the mouth that's the only part I care about
[05:16] I don't see the outside of the mouth
[05:21] Uh, all right, so I i'm gonna go i'm gonna go with dentistry i'm gonna say
[05:27] um
[05:30] It was a uh, it's british dentists
[05:35] Back in the day
[05:40] Okay, i'm going i'm going out west at west wild west. Yeah, uh Joey scurrying. Uh falconry
[05:47] Yep
[05:51] All right drunk. I got lots of stuff. So the the medical term for uh, cotton mouth is zero stomia
[06:03] Wow, there's not much on this
[06:08] No, yeah, this is this is hard to
[06:11] How did cotton mouth get its name?
[06:14] Well, that's about the snake though. It's hard to disambiguate between me
[06:19] yeah
[06:20] and wikipedia did not
[06:23] wikipedia has a bunch on epidemiology, but
[06:27] Not much on word origins
[06:32] I don't think I do one of those things that's actually under google. Sorry guys
[06:37] Nice. No, it's good. It's called what it is
[06:42] I mean
[06:43] these sort of vernaculars
[06:45] Don't I mean we don't find out about them until somebody writes them down, right?
[06:50] And apparently we know when the yeah, yeah, maybe this didn't hit the mainstream until the 60s
[06:58] I can tell you how to get over cotton mouth, uh from these weird, uh
[07:03] Crappy blogs if you'd like me to tell you i'm sure that they are
[07:07] I would love how to get rid of cotton mouth outside of drinking a glass of water. Thanks. That would be helpful
[07:12] Okay, that's number one
[07:16] Oh my god, I never thought of this
[07:20] Number two limit your alcohol intake so pass sounds lame limit your caffeine
[07:27] Also, uh, next one is change your mouthwash lame
[07:35] Don't use cannabis. Okay also
[07:42] Stop smoking. Okay. Basically. I just need to drink more water. Yeah. Yeah
[07:48] Stop doing anything that you do and drink more water
[07:53] Breathe through your nose
[07:56] I'm a mouth breather. Okay, but I can't do that while I sleep, you know
[08:01] There's alter your air
[08:04] It's like a humidifier. You can stimulate your saliva
[08:08] with uh
[08:10] sugar-free chewing gum
[08:12] Why does it say sugar free? I think it would be either any kind would be fine. You know sugar is uh dehydrating
[08:18] Oh, you're right
[08:19] Actually, I didn't know yeah
[08:22] And then you're gonna have to brush your teeth and then when you know with the mouthwash you get cotton mouth all over again
[08:28] It's just a cycle vicious cycle
[08:33] anyway, well
[08:35] Way to stump us. Mr. Coalson
[08:38] I think we're gonna have to reach out to our listeners. Yeah listeners, please if you uh know, uh, the origin of cotton mouth
[08:46] Go ahead and send us in a tweet or a
[08:49] Twat or whatever people do. I don't know
[08:52] Excuse me
[08:55] Send an email. I don't know
[08:58] What are the kids doing these days?
[09:06] They're staying away from you