Miraculous Ox Digestive Stones in Japan

Using stomach booger from oxen to deliver babies, make money, and do all kinds of stuff. The value of ox bezoars.
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0:00 What are stomach boogers?
0:57 Bezoar rituals
3:09 Bezoar medicine
4:25 Going bezoar picking
5:58 The value of bezoar
7:37 Dirty bezoar hunters
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[@Claro1993]

When I heard bezoars, what comes to mind are those balls of hair from people that eat hair.

[@Linfamy]

@@Claro1993 🤮

[@gaiusn9961]

2:30 isn't that the weird other character for Buddha （仏）？Damn 1級 kanji...

[@nejiniisan1265]

@@gaiusn9961 yes, it's the kyūjitai form.

[@LSPooo]

Have you heard of horse beans?

[@LumTheAlien]

All I can think of is Snape questing harry potter about what bezoars do and where to find them.

[@fluffysheepfallingasleep609]

All i can think about is how Harry fed Ron a bezoar when Ron got poisoned. I feel sorry for Ron, first drinking poison and then eating a bezoar😖🤮

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

That's where I heard of bezoars! I knew the word sounded familiar.

[@AlSidre]

@@fluffysheepfallingasleep609 same that was the first thing that came to my mind too 😄🤮. Wait does that mean in the HP universe Yokai are real

[@alba2162]

@@AlSidre no, the bezoars they used are from goats. Bezoars are always helpful

[@samuraiboi2735]

Lmao i guess i shouldnt had hit my head against the brick wall to find the secret place.

[@pendiemz]

Can I just say that flat earther thing was so out of tone of the video at that point, it caught me so off guard I had such a good laugh. Thanks man.

[@Linfamy]

😅

[@forcelightningcable9639]

@@Linfamy that one was comedic genius ngl I read this comment before I watched it and still barely saw it coming good job

[@echognomecal6742]

I want to give a Like, but you're @ 404 which I find funny, so here's a comment. Like #407 😝

[@SJTJ]

Jeff Beazors

[@cristinagarrido3930]

I love the "let's end the stomach obstruction with pills made of stomach obstruction" idea

[@ruukusanagi1610]

Bezoar sounds like a Ground Type Pokemon

[@unn0wn224]

ditto in ground color

[@pedrosampaio7349]

Bezoar, the indigestion Pokémon [Picture a tanky wild bezoar-esque boar, with low grunts or belches for a cry] Never mind, that sounds disgusting

[@dissect123]

"Money can’t buy happiness but it can buy things that cost lots of money" Words of wisdom to be passed through generations have been spoken.

[@ceterfo]

China: I thought you said you were sending gold. Tributary: It's cowgold it's even better than real gold. China: Eh seems legit.

[@nobunagaoda1251]

Typical Asian comedic stereotype...

[@Jobe-13]

As someone who used to eat goat meat, I know goat stomachs smelled terrible. Ox guts must smell horrendous.

[@Linfamy]

🤢

[@bigfotpeesonyoutube9647]

Goat is the food of gods, especially the marrow.

[@hanikazuha]

But some people love that weird smell of goat meat. I only eat goat meat, it taste delicious

[@Jobe-13]

@@hanikazuha Yeah. The _meat_ smells good. But the _stomach_ smells like poopoo.

[@heysilly1341]

If you’ve ever smelled chitlins then you know what they smell like

[@censusgary]

Bezoars were also used in European medicine and alchemy. Among other things, they were allegedly an antidote to poison.

[@echognomecal6742]

As we know from Harry Potter.

[@cloud4565]

All kinds of crazy shit saw peak demand in the Heian period.... must've been nice

[@TrueInvisible]

have you forgotten that the Heian clan BROUGHT US "THE FUJIWARA CLAN" PLAGUE?! ... yes bezoars are nothing compared to the Fujiwara clan! and 32 times of Linfamy repeating how they married their daughters to the empire family to rule japan! ...

[@cloud4565]

@@TrueInvisible you could say Fujiwara daughters were in high demand

[@kavky]

@@cloud4565 No, they just found a market with inflexible demand and monopolized it.

[@DapperBean]

I've always found the origin of foods and medicines fascinating, but I think this has been the weirdest thing I've heard of so far.

[@Linfamy]

Don't look up hair bezoars 😅

[@DapperBean]

@@Linfamy I regret every life decision I have ever made now.

[@johncarlosahagun4065]

Yay! Japan!

[@mysticmusical]

This definitely makes top5 but I still think the crowning champion in mummy powder... it's exactly how it sounds. Famous as a cure all during the victorian era, human mummy powder was more expensive but they used any mummified creature they could get.

[@hakudoushinumbernine]

"They had a solutions for this called making shit up" Love it!

[@lumemaa7]

It’s like whale vomit (ambergris) today. Very expensive. In high demand with high quality perfume industries. ✨✨✨

[@kokuinomusume]

Also similar to how pearls are made.

[@Calvini2013]

They're actually poop lol

[@GeraltofRivia22]

Yeah, but ambergris actually works.

[@idraote]

Moral of the story: take something that is among the most unrefined and possibly disgusting substances (except for farmers... they need it) and make it a coveted luxury item. But remember to attribute magical properties to it first.

[@johnmccrossan9376]

"they had a solution for this called making shit up" this line is more golden than the aura that surrounds the head of an ox with a bezor at sunset facing west on the second thursday of every month

[@bigfotpeesonyoutube9647]

Considering that Bezoar's mystical properties were first talked about in the Middle East and the Bezoars were spread by merchants from that region all the way to East Asia and Western Europe, that in and of itself is pretty damned impressive. Also, I appreciate you bringing up the issue of "impurity." Rare Earth did an interesting video about that issue and the rise of the caste system that eventually created the Yakuza, if you ever feel like watching it.

[@azahel542]

Yeah, the impure people in japan is one of those interesting things that you don't see being talked about too often, it's an interesting subject and somehow lingers to this day. Thanks for the video suggestion btw :D

[@bigfotpeesonyoutube9647]

@@azahel542 No worries, sir.

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

"Barakumen", I think they're called. Which I don't know its translation except that it's a very rude term.

[@hoathanatos6179]

The only thing that bezoars can really cure is minor arsenic poisoning, due to the sulfur and phosphates binding with the poisonous chemicals in arsenic solutions to neutralize them. Otherwise they don't have much purpose and are usually things that people today seek to get rid of rather than procure. Apparently drinking lots of coke works to break them down.

[@bigfotpeesonyoutube9647]

@@hoathanatos6179 In Medieval Europe, they were thought to cure poisoning of Royalty, so there was some demand.

[@ZeldaWolf2000]

1. now I can answer at least 1 of Professor Snape's question. 2. Why did our ancestors survive when doing shit like this? Don't get me wrong, it's fascinating, but HOW?

[@MoondustManwise]

THIS. THIS IS WHAT I THOUGHT.

[@kv5917]

Lol guys our descendants will ask the same I hope you know it xD

[@ZeldaWolf2000]

@@kv5917 i HOPE they do! It means they've made significant progress in medicine. Descendants, If you're reading this,☺️please feel free to make fun of us for the stupid shit we were ignorant about. If you wouldn't mind, leave a list, so those after you know why you're making fun of us, because I suspect something will be lost to history by that point. 😀 BTW sorry for the state of things, but please try not to learn from us and not fuck up as bad as we have. I'm sure YOUR descendants will appreciate you all not repeating our, and your own, mistakes. Thanks ☺️

[@braija]

Japanese fixation with purity apparently did not aply to ox poop...

[@jamestown8398]

4:55 - This actually sounds sensible. After all, having a bezoar would probably be painful for the ox.

[@Linfamy]

Makes sense

[@artisanyumi8286]

Oh my god is that what Chihiro swallowed from spirited away?

[@crowvii]

I love you, your humor, your videos. You're someone I wish I knew because you would always have me laughing. Thanks for making the best content on KZbin

[@melparadise7378]

I once had a bunch of stones in my galbladder but then had the whole thing removed. I sometimes wonder what people did with my missing organ...

[@amberkat8147]

Yeah, if only I'd known mine could have made me rich! Actually, they never said if it was full of stones, puss, or whatever, but the surgeon said it was the biggest he's ever seen and it was close to rupturing, so it was definitely full of SOMETHING. (My mother also got told her kidney was the largest the surgeon had ever removed. Is my family the "go big or go home" of organ failure or do surgeons always tell their patients that to make them feel better about the painful, expensive, inconvenient, etc., ordeal they've just been through?)

[@Helgatwb]

Eating too many unripe persimmons can cause a bezoar, and the best way to get rid of it is to drink lots of soda. The soda method only really works with these specific types of bezoars, though.

[@richardmartin8998]

"Does your partner have a cold vv? The first thing you need to do is check if she's alive". Wow. You decided to go to the dark places there Linfamy.

[@ceterfo]

Please tell me "the cave in her Southern province" is the direct translation.

[@Linfamy]

Sorry that's mine :p

[@cleoharper1842]

You know, I was busy doing something but then you had to slip this into my notifications. Ox stomach boogers?? How will I ever get any work done?

[@Linfamy]

My goal is to prevent your work.

[@cleoharper1842]

@@Linfamy Check that one off your list then, my friend. I'm already onto placenta rituals.

[@totallyathome]

Just rub some bezoar water

[@justpeachy4851]

Idk why the living yellow portion was the most amusing part but here I am, rewatching & giggling

[@Linfamy]

Lol wait why?

[@justpeachy4851]

@@Linfamy idk haha but it was hilarious to me

[@Divorceja]

I have a feeling Bobu and I would have been good friends. Humor in this video was a prescription for giggles and smiles. 🙂

[@blearyeyedchangeling]

Another great video! Thanks for the info & the laughs

[@lilheinz9496]

Dude, u are straight up just killin me, with ur dry and monotone, yet incredibly humorous takes on the idiosyncrasies of old japan common life hahah Thank u for the quality content !

[@MrFurious176]

I love your sense of humor dude.

[@FreyaCatherineMusic]

Hold up: honey, for a NEWBORN?! Big old heckin' nope. I think it's the age of two-ish iirc that you can feed a kid honey, it's actually dangerous for tiny humans.

[@Roshaad]

Oneish. Infant botulism.

[@professorroundbottom438]

Glad I'm not the only one who caught that.

[@SunflowerLilypad]

Yup. I was screaming. 😭😭😭 poor babies. They usually suggest after 1 year is ok. But before breastfeeding?!!

[@kodah5372]

Dude love your word play and commentary, gotta have a beer with ya one day lol

[@gh-ik3jp]

To the hospital for a bacterial infection. That is exactly what I was thinking. Everyone knows how to warm up a cold vageegee.

[@burntgyoza]

4:21 after people gave their baby that god-forsaken-medicine, they still giving the baby honey???

[@naomilindberg2328]

I have no idea how I got here, but I love it! Subscribed!

[@Linfamy]

Hell yeah!

[@killianmotto2684]

We hear a lot about Buddhist monk now I wonder what happens in shrine. Could you do a video on Miko one day, please? Edit : (I don't want to learn that they were abused sexualy, sure it must has happened but please)

[@gryla5290]

He already made one

[@shanedoesyoutube8001]

@@gryla5290 you sure??? Not confused with chigo???

[@MrKIMBO345]

This reminded me of the whale vomit. The whale vomit is used for the perfume. It is expensive.

[@dirckthedork-knight1201]

How do you even get something like that in the first place?

[@mfaizsyahmi]

Naturally, you have to make videos about the burakumin next.

[@_Gilles_]

Japan never fails to deliver

[@unclenogbad1509]

"Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you things that cost a lot of money." Love these bits of sly humour you throw in. Damon Runyan wishes he'd come up with that one.

[@gloamishvonsatyrburg4635]

Jeff bezoars....lmao....that was awesome

[@IntrepidFraidyCat]

Sometimes I'm truly amazed that the human race still exists. Europeans did some equally bizarre things. 😖 Very interesting video, thank you. 👍🏻😀

[@aquicha8168]

Are you referring to the mummy thing, or something else?

[@hanikazuha]

I genuinely believe that bezoar only exist in Harry Potter universe untill I watch this video 🤣😭

[@editz51214]

This is the one mao mao wanted

[@zainmudassir2964]

She loves those stones

[@FloRiLLAZ]

So these Ox-like creatures in Zelda totk who poop out gemstones have a historical background! Very interesting!

[@judyjohnson9610]

I just loved the "use it to lubricate the valleys of (the pregnant woman) southern provinces

[@TheQuestionmarkstudi]

They call it Living Yellow..

[@DrMARDOC]

“ money can’t buy happiness but it can buy things that cost a lot of money “ Was that your own ingenious quotation ?

[@kimarna]

Money can't buy happiness but at least you can be miserable in comfort In truth, money buy options. And more options helps but only to a certain point then decision paralysis

[@sorane2933]

They also appear in Harry Potter first book, where they're just mentioned and 6th book, where they're actually used to save Ron Weasley from poison.

[@kcdiscipline]

It also restores 100 HP.

[@TojiFushigoroWasTaken]

0:31 daaaammmmnnnnn, i love the subtle roast

[@Mikeztarp]

Unlike regular bezoars, jeffbezoars can only cure one poison: poverty.

[@Linfamy]

And the stress of waiting a long time for shipping.

[@pablov8399]

It's simple, linfamy uploads a video and us, linfasimps, just watch it.

[@patron8597]

Interesting. Those things are even an item in Sekiro.

[@christopherellis2663]

Early in the century, two men were arrested for stealing ox gallstones from an abattoir in Australia. TCM market pays well.

[@Akideoni]

I believe its call 牛黄 in tcm

[@kamiboy]

Traditional medicine Lore: Wisdom of the ancients Traditional medicine gameplay: Drink the ox stomach booger

[@cesarquijano94]

I am really glad I ate before watching this

[@Jobe-13]

So beezors are gut stones. Sounds very painful.

[@whylalatcanfly3404]

is kidney stones valuable like bezoars ? my friend on the hospital have lot of it

[@Didartie]

👁️👄👁️ the fact that people actually survived this-

[@ShunaJenkins]

idk why but this cracked me up. Can't stop laughing! Lol :D

[@dennisgiguere5166]

Your videos are informative and funny a shit.

[@melody3741]

Did they actually use the phrasing of the cave in their Southern province? If so, that's really funny. And also creative.

[@jcv3061]

"Jeff Bezoars". Automatic Like.

[@you2angel1]

Yey! I learned a new word today "BEZOARS" Thank you °~.☆.~°

[@Linfamy]

:D

[@echognomecal6742]

Much like "Chicken of the Sea" brand tuna, here we have "Ambergris of the Land" bodily solids.

[@VitchAndVorty]

"Monks rituals" Heh. Like sleeping with their Chigo?

[@nicholasnelson8641]

Even though this is an old video, today I was brought here due to looking up ox bezoar after the latest episode of Apothecary Diaries.

[@fathurrahmanfadli274]

Same fr

[@slevinchannel7589]

@@fathurrahmanfadli274 JUST got mentioned by an epic anime: Apothetician Diary. Made me come back here and ask: Wikipedies says jacks-it so can somebody tell me if they have MEDICAL use or not ?

[@slevinchannel7589]

@@fathurrahmanfadli274 You 2 psych me out: I legit came hee cause of the anime

[@shakkedjaffe4462]

HONEY IT'S DANGEROUS FOR BABIES AAAAAHHHHH

[@sydneylarkin]

They have good luck charms for traffic safety now too

[@jeffwolcott7815]

How did people come up with these things?

[@JessXXlynn]

“Check to see if she’s alive. “ oh no

[@Lucious410]

Good thing I wasn't eating when watching this 🤢

[@78deathface]

I want a bezoar now!

[@Linfamy]

Lol why

[@78deathface]

@@Linfamy because you made them sound so good ✨

[@melodica_man0216]

kill around 50 hornets. they’re not too hard to find so it shouldn’t take too long to get one

[@TrueInvisible]

trading literal shit for whole new levels .. and i thought that placenta's treatment was weird.... did i forget that this is the land where its sun goddess was born from her father's bathing? and the moon was also born from their father's bathing? or that it's the land where the food goddess literally shat all the food she presented? .. we really learn how .. unique the old japanese were like with your tales! thanks!

[@Linfamy]

I guess anything rare can be made precious :p

[@TrueInvisible]

@@Linfamy well ... it's quantity vs demand. anything can be precious as long as it's scarce .. you make me recall how the "high samurai" used to use horse feces and forge it into a ball, then swallow it as "cold medicine" .... thank you god, for the science and chemistry evolution!

[@Chris-ut6eq]

sadly I can never unsee animated bezoars and now feel like an outcast who has never sampled the magic of the ox gods. Now there is an empty part of me and my life can never truly be whole.

[@jasepoag8930]

"Hey Frank-san, I bet I can get the rich folk up at the castle to pay me big bucks for this weird yellow lump we found in our cow. Tell 'em it uh...cures stuff, and things."

[@cybeliandiamonds6445]

Is ambergris a bezor then too?

[@EunusRex]

Video on eta (burakumin)?

[@xZOOMARx]

I’m guessing this is the lump of fat wax in sekiro

[@jeanfalconer6377]

Well, this is gonna be wild huh?

[@SuLokify]

Actually, persimmons in the diet create bezoars in many species including humans and bovines. Many ancient cultures just didn't know.

[@zainmudassir2964]

Whale stones from their stomach are also valuable for medical and perfume uses. Recently some Yemeni fishermen got rich by getting some for a whale carcass

[@J_Gamble]

Bezoars in humans (and maybe cows too, I don't know) can be dissolved with Coca Cola. One time at work I walked into a patient's room and saw a solid row of coke cans on the window sill. Turns out it was for bezoars the patient was suffering from. Studies say it might take a while, this treatment. I don't know how many cokes this person finally had to drink.

[@Linfamy]

He got rid of the bezoars, but got diabetes afterwards

[@J_Gamble]

@@Linfamy hope not :)

[@BathersonMote]

Bezoar is kind of a dull name for something so valuable. They should have called them, Ox Pearls. Open up an ox, "Oh look, I found an ox pearl".

[@AGS363]

Fun Fact: The best treatment for Bezoars is Coca Cola.

[@tetsu1000]

reminds me of myself looking for medicinal mushrooms growing on cow dung

[@lunerwolfie6101]

Rich people do weird things. Ha. Like I would know.

[@Linfamy]

We only know through the internet 🙂

[@ginnyjollykidd]

What do you give the emperor who has everything? Give him a bezoar! (or Vancomycin)

[@nobody8328]

What bezoar, My Lord? Not in that bull, no sir-ree! Not a single one, honest 😇

[@braija]

I would invest heavily in yellow pigments.

[@thisdosntrelate]

Are they kidney stones?

[@mikehunt6107]

This is another reason why traveling back in time does not sound fun.

[@alexiswelsh5821]

Apparently Coke-Cola can be used to treat bezoars.

[@thebookdoc.writing.and.editing]

Above water soluble pearls.

[@jasepoag8930]

So, essentially land ambergris?

[@stillhere1425]

Why are magic things always icky?

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

So this is basically the ox version of ambergis...