Is antiperspirant true or not? As a novelist, fiction is inevitable, but fiction is also based on real life. Ecstasy does exist in Chinese medicine, but its magical power really benefits from the novelist's pen. This article talks about the ins and outs of antiperspirants from the medical point of view.
Ecstasy can make people unconscious, painful or inconvenient in a short time, and it is an anesthetic in medicine. Wang Qingyi's Wanquanbei made a bet on the article "Traditional Chinese medicine is poisonous and sweaty, but cold water can solve it": "Mongolian Khan, common name Ma Khan". This is another name for antiperspirant. Anesthetic is the general term for ancient anesthetics. "Hemp" means numbness and anesthesia. This alias clearly points out the characteristics of antiperspirants.
Later novelists also mentioned "stuffy fragrance", which really means stuffy and anesthetic. Therefore, from the perspective of phonology, it is reasonable to think that "Meng Khan" is the opposite of "boredom". In addition, folk secret medicine often uses "anti-cutting" to obscure its name, because folk use "code words to secret its side." Therefore, it is not unreasonable for the people to use "sweating" to imply "stuffy medicine".
So, is the antiperspirant described by the novelist true or false? The ancients also discussed this. For example, the clear Seven Revisions once talked about the change of his personal understanding of antiperspirants: "Novelists taste antiperspirants, and people are confused when they eat them, but if there is medicine to relieve them, they think it is stupid to give them." However, after reading the records of the anesthetic effects of Bubulu, Kusnezoff monkshood and Datura flower in Song Dynasty, he changed his view: "If it is true, the antiperspirant is not fake!"
According to the anesthesia records of Datura stramonium in Lingnan Miscellanies by Wei Jun in Ming Dynasty, Yu Yue in Qing Dynasty thought that "this medicine still exists today, which is what novelists call antiperspirant". But it can cure asthma, and its method is to use a pipe, that is, to eat it mixed with cigarettes. The initial test was quite effective. "However, the above-mentioned opinions affirming the existence of antiperspirants are all inferred from the notes of former people. Are there any records of antiperspirants in medical books? Did the ancients really have the experience of using antiperspirants?
In medical books, the word "Mongolian Khan" may have appeared as early as Puji Fang. White lentils have been used in the book "to cure sweating poison, dumbfounded, speechless and drunk." The symptoms of sweating poison recorded here are very similar to those described in Water Margin, except that there is no prescription component of sweating medicine.
The herbal medicine with antiperspirant ingredients recorded for the first time in history may be the pure "medicinal Huiyuan" of Mingmeide. Under the article "Yang Yu", the book records: "Xin Wen. There is a big poison. Its flowers are like day lilies, which are difficult to get. If it is wrong, it will make people tremble and faint for a day. If you use it, you can mix it with shochu and steam it for three times, which means you have no worries. Mixing it with Tahihua, Chuanwu and Caowu is an antiperspirant. " Among them, the other flower is Datura flower. The antiperspirants introduced by Mei are mainly used to treat wind evil, sores, toxic pain and gout, and there is no record. Faint is its toxic side effect.
Since then, the Book of Changes of Mencius written by Zhong Zhang in Qing Dynasty, under the name of "antiperspirant", introduced in detail the components of antiperspirant, the detailed process of anesthesia operation with it, the effective time of the drug after taking it, and the methods of relieving anesthesia. Zhang's "antiperspirant" prescription is very refined, which is "Fanyanghua (that is, yam), Radix Aconiti, Radix Aconiti Kusnezoffii, Cornhorn, Pyritum, Olibanum, Myrrha, Fel Ursi, Cinnabar and Musk *** 10". "Mix with hot wine and get drunk immediately. The effect of anesthesia is mainly "numbness of limbs, waking up after one day." "Thick licorice decoction can be dissolved immediately after drinking."
Zhang introduced that this prescription is mainly used for military surgery, which can operate on the injuries caused by arrows, arrows and marbles, but it is not used to steal money. In addition, the "iron cloth shirt" used in the book for all kinds of malignant pain relief in surgery is also called antiperspirant. "Eating less will relieve pain, and eating more will make you sweat." Therefore, antiperspirants were not invented by novelists. In medical books, there are indeed antiperspirants, but they are all used for war injury surgery or carbuncle pain relief.
From a medical point of view, antiperspirant is just one of many anesthetics in history. Its name originated from the Southern Song Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty. Although antiperspirants have long been used for non-medical purposes, they are not exclusive to robbers.
The most commonly used antiperspirants are pharmacists, because they are the best anesthetics for surgery and the best painkillers for some pains. Early antiperspirants were mostly sprinkled in wine or mixed in rice, while smoldering incense in Qing Dynasty used the way of burning cigarettes. This kind of stuffy fragrance is not used by doctors, but only by characters in novels. However, conclusive evidence shows that in the Qing Dynasty, criminals put antiperspirant in tobacco, which fascinated smokers and committed crimes.
Antiperspirant prescriptions recorded in medical books and non-medical books of past dynasties contain many kinds of drugs. The antiperspirant prescription with the same name has different drug components. Because any drug with anesthetic effect can be used as antiperspirant, it is necessary to further explore drugs with anesthetic effect and their development history in the future.