Sujet : Re: Mosquitoes: showers with cow urine
De : jfairchild (at) *nospam* tudado.org (Johanne Fairchild)
Groupes : sci.miscDate : 21. Mar 2024, 17:57:20
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JAB <
here@is.invalid> writes:
Weird as it may look, Mundari and Dinka tribes of South Sudan take
showers with cow urine because they think it's antiseptic and frees
them from parasites and mosquitoes.
[...]
"Mosquitoes were more attracted to people whose body odours contained
more carboxylic acids (likely produced by skin microbes), over those
with lower levels of carboxylic acids and elevated levels of
eucalyptol (potentially related to a person's diet)."
Interesting. What kind of food contains eucalyptol?