What was He Dinghong, the "first strange poison in the world" in ancient times? Modern names look like laughing.

As we all know, China has a history of thousands of years. Comparatively speaking, it spent a large part of time in ancient history. Modern people usually borrow some ancient books or costume dramas to learn about history. When we understand ancient life, we can often find the existence of "He Ding Hong", which is a very famous poison in ancient costume film and television dramas. It is known as "the strangest poison in the world", and people who are almost poisoned by river top red are often difficult to be cured. Then, will everyone have such doubts, what is crane top red?

In fact, when people know the red-crowned crane, they often take it literally as the "red crown" of the red-crowned crane's head. Because there are both "crane" and "red" in the name of Hedinghong, everyone will regard it as the head of a red-crowned crane.

But this is not the case. In some ancient books, the head of red-crowned crane is not only nontoxic, but also beneficial to physical and mental health. It is a tonic that only ancient emperors can enjoy. Therefore, it is obviously unreliable to say that "Crane Crown Red" is the head of a red-crowned crane.

The real "poisonous" hemlock is actually "red arsenic stone", a natural mineral with the scientific name "arsenic trioxide", which becomes "arsenic" after treatment. As all friends who have studied chemistry know, "arsenic" is colorless and tasteless, easily soluble in alkaline solution, and will combine with protein sulfide to denature protein and lose its vitality.

As we all know, protein is an important part of the human body. Once protein loses its activity, the cellular energy supply of human body will be blocked, which will lead to the death of human body due to the rapid loss of energy. Therefore, after people take day lily, chemical reactions will occur in their bodies, which will produce toxic substances, destroy the protein of human body and lead to human death.

In addition, after some experts' research, it is found that Heding Red is probably the famous arsenic. So the arsenic we see in costume movies and TV plays is also a colorless and odorless white object. It is precisely because of this feature that ancient people like to use it to poison a person quietly.

It is reported that about 60 mg of arsenic can often achieve fatal results, and there is no effective antidote to cure it at present. In addition, the ancient arsenic was cheaper, belonging to the kind of commodity that was easy to buy, so the opportunities for ancient people to use it were not frequent. Like the Water Margin, one of the four classical novels, Wu Dalang was poisoned by Pan Jinlian with arsenic; Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty is said to have died of arsenic poisoning.

You may wonder why arsenic is called "He Ding Hong". Mainly because the raw material of arsenic, red arsenic stone, is red, but when it is ground into powder, it will turn white when it comes into contact with air. In ancient people's minds, brightly colored things were not safe, so white or other plain colors were used when poisoning.

So the so-called "first strange poison" in ancient times is actually the chemical "arsenic" in our modern eyes. Do you think it's interesting when you know? However, it also reflects from the side that ancient people had a very rich understanding of pharmacological knowledge. As early as thousands of years ago, the existence of highly toxic substance "arsenic" was discovered. However, today's chemical substance "arsenic" has been tried to be used in the medical field, and the once famous "poison" can also play a role in serving mankind.

It can also be seen that everything has two sides, and we can't just look at its bad side and ignore its good side. Just like people, if you want to know a person comprehensively and carefully, you should start from all aspects of him, and you can't favor one over the other.