With the desire to be able to live forever or simply to help them “restore” their beauty, many alchemists and people of ancient status have devised strange and creepy remedies to use. use.
Longevity is a long-standing dream of many people, so since ancient times people have tried their best to find ways to slow down the cycle of “birth, old age, sickness and death” of human life. Recorded history has a lot of chilling methods that have been given and “advertised” to help people become immortal, making today when looking back, everyone can’t help but shiver because of the cold.
In 1796, German physicist Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland suggested that sleeping next to virgins without sex would prolong life.
Gaius Plinius Secundus – a historian has said that the Romans living in the 1st century AD drank the blood of gladiators to help cure epilepsy and promote health.
In the 6th century BC, a Sanskrit book called the Sushruta Samhita advised those who wanted to live a long life to drink a mixture of gold, honey, root powder and butter after bathing in the morning.
Around 133 BC, the alchemist Li Shao Chun advised the Han emperor to eat food made of gold to help prolong his life.
A remedy considered very miraculous, which can “change old man into young man” has been found on a papyrus dating back to 1600 BC. According to this recipe, one has to mix a fruit called hemayet with water, then boil it until dry and then dry it and use it.
In the 1st century BC, Egyptian Queen Cleopatra regularly bathed in donkey milk to maintain her beauty and youth.
Ancient Taoists believed that eating the eggs of long-lived animals (such as turtles) could help people live forever.
Ge Hong – an alchemist living in the 4th century has created a remedy that is “advertised” to help people achieve immortality, including monkey brain and herbs. He said that if used this remedy regularly, people can live up to 500 years. It’s terrible isn’t it!
Roger Bacon, a monk and philosopher who lived in the 13th century, possessed some uncanny methods for eternal life. In his book “The Cure Of Old Age” , he advises people to drink wine mixed with gold, pearls, coral and deer bones. In addition, he also affirmed that eating snakes is very good for health and can help prolong life.
In the 16th century, Diane de Poitiers – the mistress of King Henry II (France) drank a mixture of gold chloride and diethyl ether with the desire to help her stay young forever. Unfortunately, this compound caused Diane to slowly die and die at the age of 66. Examination of her hair revealed that she suffered from chronic gold poisoning. Diane is also not the only woman to die in her beauty efforts because many people have also died because of lead and arsenic poisoning that was too much in old makeup.
King Charles II’s doctor (England) Tobias Whitaker advised people to drink a lot of alcohol to prolong life. However, he died in 1664 and lived to only 60 years old.
In 1920, psychologist Eugen Steinach experimented with partial vasectomy to prolong life.
Also in 1920, Serge Voronoff convinced thousands of men to transplant chimpanzees testicles to restore vitality.
In 1921, Dr. Charles G. Davis wrote about radium as a miracle drug that can make cells healthier and reverse old age.
The world recorded a man named John Brinkley who implanted goat testicles into the human body to help prolong life. However, in 1930 his entire license to practice was revoked.
Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard (1817 – 1894) was an erudite physiologist and neuroscientist, but towards the end of his life he ruined his own scientific reputation in the search for immortality. Accordingly, he injected himself with a compound extracted from the testicles of guinea pigs and dogs because he believed it was a rejuvenating elixir.
One of the other strange methods the ancients believed to be able to become immortal was to embalm their own living body. This practice of mummification was practiced by monks of the Shingon esoteric order in Japan 1,000 years ago. Often, monks who mummify themselves will not be considered “dead” but fall into a state of deep meditation. Many people believe that people who have meditated deeply will stay in that state for billions of years, after which they will come back to life with an intact body.
Alexander Bogdanov (1873 – 1928) was an outstanding man, he is known as a pioneer for the artistic reform of the former Soviet Union. He believes that changing blood will make people healthier and live longer. He himself had blood transfusions many times and after each time, he felt younger and healthier. However, at the last blood transfusion of his life, the blood passed into him was from a student suffering from malaria and he died soon after.
Ancient Chinese emperors believed that medicine could increase longevity. Because of this, many Chinese alchemists have refined “immortality pills” that are said to contain mercury, but sadly, patients who take this elixir often die earlier than usual. Qin Shi Huang – a famous king in Chinese history died at the age of 39, and was diagnosed with mercury poisoning.
Alchemists in China weren’t the only ones who believed that mercury was a key ingredient in elixir, and so were Westerners. Of course, the high exposure to mercury poses a serious danger to their health. For example, Isaac Newton was also deeply interested in this method. And after his death, he was diagnosed with many signs of mercury poisoning: tremors, paranoia, confusion, severe insomnia.
Although the strange and creepy methods of immortality like the above have all failed, that doesn’t mean that people today will give up in their quest to find the key to eternal life. me. The remedy to help “eternal immortality” has so far always been a research-intensive work of scientists.