People used to do everything to stay young, even ... drink gold

Now we all know that gold is not something to drink, it's not something that can restore or maintain youth. But at least in the sixteenth century in France, it was considered a " miracle ".

Today, if you want to rejuvenate your skin, you just need to choose one of the numerous whitening creams, anti-aging on the market. But before, especially in feudal times, such products were not available like that.

Whether "rich" or "poor" , people, regardless of the time, still work hard to keep the youth in every way. As the old Chinese frequency bands used to grind pearls to drink with tea to preserve beauty. And the French nobility, they choose to drink . gold.

Drinking gold: From switching to beauty methods

"Although this woman has lived for another hundred years, her face is not old" - that is what Brantome, a French historian of the sixteenth century wrote about Diane de Poitiers, floating noble female The voice for beauty is not old.

Diane de Poitiers - who is known as an old lady.

In feudal times, the women revolving around the king still defied all because of beauty. De Poitiers was no exception, although she had great power, affecting both French politics and culture for a while.

Strange in that what De Poitiers used to nourish the face was liquid gold . Because before that, forced to drink liquid gold (exactly molten gold) is a form of punishment and taking the sinner's life.

In the West, the Spanish Inquisition used this execution method. In the East, people still circulate the most cruel revenge story of.

Old Genghis Khan often used very scary execution methods involving gold.

In the 1200s, he twice gave messengers to Persia to offer trade cooperation. Whoever wields the head of the Kwarezmia empire (ie, Persian at that time) responded by shaving his head and cutting the messenger's neck. After checking and checking back and forth to see that there was nothing wrong with me, Genghis Khan was furious and dragged his army to Kwarezmia.

And the form of execution he gave to those who dared to anger him was pouring hot gold into his throat .

A lot of things like how to use liquefied gold

For some reason, drinking gold suddenly became a beauty method in medieval France. It seems that at first, it was only proposed as a way to cure warts and sores.

And then the alchemists found a way to dissolve gold (with aqua regia), so the aristocrats frantically believed it could cure the disease, from epilepsy to mental illness.

The aristocrats frantically believed that it could cure diseases, from epilepsy to mental illness.

Gold is a precious metal, and it may be deduced that "what is good is good". From the second and third centuries, feudal China argued that drinking gold would be immortal. Even ancient Egypt claimed no anti-aging better than gold.

But since gold is solid, it can only be finely ground to drink. And because the gold chips are still "crumbs" , it cannot be fully utilized. Only when dissolved (though dissolved by toxic acid), does gold become a "medicine".

The gold is dissolved, people mix it with alcohol, with fennel tea, egg white, breast milk, even . the urine of the virgin has just arrived for the first month.

No effect but only poisoning

Gold is a precious metal, and it may be deduced that "what is good is good".

Particularly for De Poitiers, she drank liquefied gold with diethyl ether every day. And even though Brantome praised her for her crumbling spring age, De Poitiers died of poisoning within six months of use.

During the French Revolution (1789–1799), the tomb of De Poitiers was unearthed. After analyzing her hair samples, the researchers concluded, the cause of death was chronic poisoning due to long-term gold drinking habits.

Also from now on, people are new or not quarterly as well. The drinking of liquefied gold of course ended.