opium pipe is a pipe designed for pesticide evaporation and inhalation. The original opium pipe allows the drug to evaporate when heated over a special oil lamp known as a poppy lamp. It is thought that this "smoking" opiate began in the seventeenth century when a specially developed pipe evaporated opium instead of burning it.
The typical opium pipe configuration consists of long rods, ceramic pipe bowls, and metal fittings, known as "saddles", through which the bowl-pipe is connected to the pipe. The bowls must be released from the stem because of the need to lift the bowl and scrape the inside of the net from the poppy ash after several pipes have been smoked. Opium pipe rods are usually made of bamboo, but other materials such as ivory and silver are used. Pipe-bowl is usually a kind of ceramics, such as blue and white porcelain. Sometimes the opium poppies are carved from more precious materials such as jade.
Due to its design, the opium pipe requires an opium lamp to function. The lamp is very special like a pipe, and is designed to deliver the required amount of heat to the top of the pipe bowl so that the opium will evaporate and allow the smoker to inhale the intoxicating vapors.
Due to opium eradication campaigns in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the original opium pipe is now very rare.
At the beginning of the 20th century, opium pipe is often called a dream stick. Something that is a "pipe dream" is a metaphorical reference to unreached or strange expectations or schemes.
Video Opium pipe
References
Maps Opium pipe
Further reading
- Steven Martin, The Art of Opium Antiques (Silkworm Books, 2007). Photographs are driven from the Chinese and Vietnamese antique opium smoking kits.
- Armero & amp; Rapaport, "The Arts of An Addiction, Qing Dynasty Opium Pipes and Accessories" (Quadrus, HC, DJ, 1995)
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