Europeans eat mummy too hot, so that they are remembered in the "Compendium of Materia Medica"

Regardless of whether you believe it or not, eating mummy has been popular in civilized Europe for several centuries.

Since the Middle Ages, Europeans have always believed in a prescription that crushed the mummy full of ointment, and they can cure any diseases of the headache and the dark death.

There is such an idea, probably because Mummy's approach looks medicinal. In addition to the thick bandage, Egyptian mummy will be coated with a layer of "ointment" on it, which is a natural asphalt from the Dead Sea. Since ancient times, the Dead Sea is known for salt production and asphalt.

French natural asphalt

The so -called natural asphalt, the semi -solid evaporation and oxidized, its viscosity is similar to cold honey, which can be used to prevent waterproof and anti -corrosion.

Dead sea asphalt

Compared with ordinary asphalt, there is no difference in components. They are composed of aromatics, polar aroma compounds, saturated hydrocarbons, asphalt, and organic sulfide. Just looking at the ingredients, you know that there is no medicinal value ...

However, most of the natural asphalt has been evaporated and oxidized, and it generally does not contain any toxins. For ordinary asphalt, the medicinal medicine could not be expected, and people died early.

In the Middle Ages, a Persian medicalist Ibn Sina. He said that Mumia eats all diseases, including abscess, rash, fracture, cerebral vibration, paralysis ... can also detoxify.

Yiben Westna's medical work

Note that "Mumia" refers to natural asphalt, not "Mummy" (Mummy ", and" Mumia "is the source of modern English words" Mummy ".

In other words, the earliest Persians proposed to eat natural asphalt instead of making people eat mummy directly ... As for why Europeans read wrong, took several centuries of injustice, this explanation later.

However, people prescribing this prescription not only mummy ingredients, but also mixed with other herbs. It feels similar to that of Chinese medicine. There is always a herbal medicine ingredient to cure the disease ... Of course, if you suspect that the taste is not good, the doctor suggests that you can add some wine, milk or or Butter and the like.

After about 500 years, this approach has been passed to the medical documents in Western Europe. If you have the mood and time, check the early European medical works, and read it from manuscripts to printing books. You will find that there are a large number of examples of natural asphalt medicines, whether it is Britain, France, or Germany.

These examples do not appear once somewhere in the article, but repeatedly appear, occupying a lot of space in the work. At least in the literature, Europeans did not recognize the word Mumia.

But there was a doctor who came out in the back, saying that mummy medicine was unsafe. The doctor named Ambroise Paré was a French surgeon in the Renaissance in the Renaissance.

In the paper, he wrote:

"This evil drug is not helpful to the patient. I have tried it a hundred times, and according to the veterinarian witness, he also tried it. At that time, he introduced a Jewish agent from Egypt. Take some. But then there are many symptoms of trouble, such as the pain of the heart or the stomach, vomiting, and the smell of the oral cavity ... "

It can be seen above that the patient will complain that the natural asphalt is not very good.

Under normal circumstances, the natural asphalt prescribed by the doctor, although it is not useful, at least it is not much wrong, and there may be a little psychological comfort.

But there are more and more people who eat later, and more and more people find that this medicine is useless, so there is an idea:

Natural asphalt is useless to eat. It is estimated that it is useful from the dead, that is, Mummy's body ...

Medicine cans used to save Mumia

From then on, things are wrong. At the beginning, everyone was sneaking in mummy. After all, when they went to the tomb to dig a grave, they would not be seen.

Later, I knew that more people in eating mummy had changed, and the demand for mummy also increased, but mummy was not a sweet potato. It can be harvested once every seasons. few. Egypt's mummy dug out and digs Syria. The Egyptian government naturally banned mummy's transactions.

Used to save mummy's collective grave

What should I do if Mummy is not enough? A Jewish Jewish Alexander thought of a trick and produced mummy himself. He may have collected slaves in Egypt and may be others. Then fill asphalt on them, tie the bandage, put them under the sun to dry, and make almost one -to -one simulation mummy.

European medical documents also began to replace natural asphalt with mummy, and Mumia became Mummy. In order to make mummy better, Paracelsus, a Swiss doctor in the Middle Ages, designed a kind of "mummy balm" and a "mummy syrup". After his death, this way of eating still prevailed for a century.

Scene of Egyptian Mummy

How popular is it? The saying of eating mummy has been transmitted to China ... The Ming Dynasty Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" once reproduced the rumors:

"Compendium of Materia Medica" Volume 52 (People's Ministry ": Shi Zhen said: According to Tao Jiucheng's" Drops of Plowing Records "cloud: Heavenly Chinese people are seven or eighty years old. The moon is drowned. As a result of death, the Chinese people are still soaked in honey, and they are in the coffin of the year. After a hundred years later, it becomes a honey. When you encounter people who hurt your limbs, take a little bit of healing. Although there are not many parts, it is also called honey people. Tao's containing this, I wonder if there is a fruit? The end of the volume of the aunt, with the knowledge. The honey man mentioned here is mummy syrup.

From this moment, everyone's focus has long been running from natural asphalt to human flesh nanoi. It is not necessarily that Egyptian mummy is needed. As long as it is added to the corpse, it can be added. Later, Europeans had long forgotten the word Mumia, and became a term in the general sense of medicinal flesh.

Paul Dominique Philippoteaux C 1891 "Mummy Test"

In the 19th century, only the British royal family could afford the true Egyptian Mummy. For them, only the noble Pharaoh Mumini can be worthy of their status, and the king eats the king.

Someone asked, what taste of Mummy, the literature said: a bit spicy and bitter, and a fragrance.

Who still remember that the Persians said that they were eating natural asphalt instead of mummy? But it doesn't matter.

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