Illustration of "Yongzheng Twelve Beauties"
The court has been a rather secret place since ancient times, and the emperors and relatives who live in it have always attracted the attention of the world.
Then, living in the world's first-class rich and prosperous land, will the relatives of the emperor and the state also have the same troubles about various diseases as the common people?
With the popularity of "Step by Step" and "The Biography of Zhen Huan", the image of the Yongzheng Emperor appeared more and more in film and television dramas.
However, unlike Wu Qilong's handsomeness, the historical Yongzheng was 45 years old when he ascended the throne, and his body had begun to age.
Therefore, in the Qing Palace archives of the Yongzheng Dynasty, we can see a very large number of productions of maintenance drugs or utensils.
For example, for the ears, Yongzheng will wrap the magnet and musk in a cloth and stuff them into the ears.
The reason was naturally due to the fact that as he grew older, the emperor's hearing became weaker and weaker.
On the first day of May in the second year of Yongzheng, Liu Shengfang, an envoy of the court, planned to put an ear to fang. Magnets (large pieces of watercress) are wrapped in cotton, and musk (large pieces of bean grains) are wrapped in cotton. ”
Portrait of the Yongzheng Emperor
In the early years of Yongzheng's reign, magnets and musk were already used to maintain hearing.
In the "Compendium of Materia Medica", it is recorded that magnets can be "blind and deaf", and in other medical books, there are many medicines that use magnets to treat eye and ear diseases.
It can be seen that the use of magnets is the "traditional art" of Chinese medicine, and it is no wonder that the Yongzheng Emperor used this method of maintenance.
Unlike modern medicine, the production of pills during the Qing Dynasty attached great importance to the choice of good birthdays and auspicious days.
On the tenth day of the first month of November in the fifth year of Yongzheng, the Yangxin Hall sent a message to all the tai doctors:
"On the thirteenth day of this month, on the auspicious day, you have some medicines that should be combined.
The Yongzheng Emperor himself personally selected the specific date of manufacturing medicinal materials, which shows the importance attached to this matter.
The emperor gave such an order, and the doctors naturally did not dare to slacken off.
At the end of this day, dozens of pills are combined, including Liuwei Dihuang Pill, Huoxiang Zhengqi Pill, Ping An Dan, Qibao Dan and so on.
Even, Yongzheng once took 85,700 peace pills made by the Tai Hospital and rewarded the governors and generals of various places as a blessing in disguise.
Ping An Pills are also commonly used materials for treating heart and stomach pain, and it is necessary to use a valuable spice - Qinanxiang.
Because the amount to be made was too large, the doctors were embarrassed to ask the emperor directly, which was very difficult.
After Yongzheng knew, he said disapprovingly: "What is the value of Qinanxiang, they are late, if they play it early, how much will it be, and they will stop and close again." ”
"Yongzheng Yuanmingyuan Parade"
In the Yan Xinglu left by the Korean envoys, a rumor is recorded:
It is said that the Yongzheng Emperor was obsessed with female sex, abandoned the empress in the palace, and played with his favorite concubines in the Yuanmingyuan every day.
For a long time, due to excessive indulgence, the Yongzheng Emperor was as cold as an ice cube from the waist down, and his legs could hardly walk.
Although this is only a one-sided statement of the Koreans, the Yongzheng Emperor does have traces of deliberate maintenance in this regard.
In the eighth year of Yongzheng, he went down to the pharmacy and the Qianqing Palace, Lama Temple, etc., to look for "Turtle Age Collection Formula" and "Turtle Age Collection Wine".
The Yongzheng Emperor also got his wish and found the Ten Turtle Age Collection Wines in the Lama Temple.
The so-called turtle age formula, which is mostly a medicine for tonifying the kidneys and helping the yang.
It is indeed possible to treat the symptoms of lower cold and waist and knee weakness.
Although the physical condition of the Yongzheng Emperor in the Korean pen may be exaggerated, it may not be far from the truth.