Health care: talk about your views on the health care of the ancient king alchemy.

In ancient times, alchemy also belonged to the category of medical exploration. Ge Hong, Tao Hongjing and Sun Simiao, famous doctors before the Tang Dynasty, were also alchemists. Ge Hong's medical work "The Inner Chapter of Bao Puzi" is divided into two volumes: "Zedan" and "Huangbai", which specifically describes and summarizes how to make an alchemy. Tao Hongjing has been engaged in alchemy experiments for more than 20 years all his life, and has written many alchemy monographs such as He Dan Fa and Jin Ji Fang.

Sun Simiao's Money Into Fang Yao also contains a lot of alchemy. Because these famous doctors have a high reputation in history, many people are more convinced of Dan medicine. The theoretical basis of refining Dan medicine by ancient famous doctors is "seeking external things to strengthen oneself". They think that people are fragile, and if they want to live forever, they must find an immortal and stable drug as a support.

An elixir refined from natural minerals such as lead sand, sulfur and mercury. Will not be refined in fire, immortal in soil for a thousand years, and will not rot in water for a thousand years. If it can be absorbed by the human body, it will play a role in strengthening the body. This theory sounds easy to deceive.

Traditional medicine in China is gradually formed through long-term experience accumulation, which is a process of trial and error. When the emperor took Dan medicine, it was actually the alchemist who tried and made mistakes with the emperor's body. In this sense, the death of the emperor played a little role in improving the medical cognition level of the ancients.

In addition, in medicine, although alchemy was misled and completely failed, long-term alchemy activities promoted the development of ancient chemistry. An alchemist made the world-famous black powder by observing and experimenting with the phenomenon of mixed combustion of sulfur, saltpeter and carbon.

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An alchemist is extremely mysterious and strange in his practice or process. If you think that the choice of Dan's land should be in a famous mountain that is inaccessible and haunted by immortals, otherwise "evil spirits can get in, but medicine can't get in." When opening the tripod, the warlock must fast, clean the crown, kneel down and hold the medicine stove, and worship the Buddha toward the south avenue; Another example is going into the mountains, so we must choose the auspicious day of "opening mountains in March or September".

The altar should be burned and printed, and the furnace tripod should be inserted with a sword and an ancient mirror. And so on, are full of extremely strong superstition. However, ancient alchemists personally engaged in the collection and preparation of drugs, and through repeated chemical experiments, they developed the original chemical cause intentionally or unintentionally, which can be regarded as the originator of modern chemistry.

There are about ten kinds of tools and equipment in the literature of alchemy, namely, Dan furnace, Dante, Shuihai, pomegranate jar, snail, mercury collector, huachi, grinder, silk screen, ponytail and so on.