Accompany my wife to watch dramas during the holidays, and this kind of plot can often be seen in some palace fighting dramas: someone gives a sachet or spice with musk hidden to the girl, and then the girl smells it twice, or she has a miscarriage after smelling it for a long time, and even some people can't get pregnant because of it. My wife asked me, do you think musk is really so powerful?As soon as I heard it, I had to live!
First of all, let's explain what musk is, it is divided into natural musk and artificial musk. Natural musk is the secretion of musk animals, which is taken from the glands of adult males and used to attract the opposite sex. Because people often killed musk deer for incense in the past, musk deer has been listed as a national first-class protected animal, and at present, we generally use artificial musk.
The main active ingredient of musk is musk ketone, which is one of the food flavor additives approved by the state, and its main role is not only as an additive, but also a medicinal material. Needless to say, additives, perfumes, fragrances, cosmetics, etc. As for medicinal use, I checked the relevant Chinese medicine records, most of which mainly emphasized its effect of "invigorating blood circulation and removing blood stasis", and a few mentioned that it can induce labor and even make people have an abortion.
From this point of view, the setting of those palace fighting dramas about "musk makes ** production" is not traceless, but if you want to say that smelling the fragrance will cause a miscarriage, is this really the case?After all, putting aside the dose and talking about toxicity, it is a hooligan, this sentence is a cliché. How much musk can make ** produce?And can musk make people infertile?It's up to our modern scientists to talk about experiments.
Regarding the study of the effect of musk on pregnancy, in the 80s of the last century, Zhang Chongli of the Chinese Academy of Sciences did a controlled experiment. After successful mating, the researchers injected 20 mg of musk ketone subcutaneously per day into the female mice and the other group with the same volume of solvent in the control group, and finally found that the proportion of pregnancies in the control group was 63%-83%, compared with 17%-40% in the muskone group.
Seeing this, some people may want to say, the ancients did not deceive me, isn't this still influential!Eh, there are two points to pay attention to in this experiment: the first is subcutaneous injection here, that is to say, the daily musk ketone intake of this experimental receptor is incomparable to that of us ordinary people smelling musk fragrances and perfumes;And Zhang Chongli also found in this experiment that progesterone will have a certain counteracting effect on muskone.
Since then, a Japanese scientific research group has also studied the pharmacological effects of musk. The final conclusion is when the concentration of the musk solution is 0At 1 mg ml, it can promote uterine smooth muscle contraction, but when the concentration rises to 1 mg ml, uterine smooth muscle contraction will be inhibited. It can be seen that if we must talk about the effect of musk on pregnancy, we cannot separate it from the concentration and mode of intake. It doesn't hurt for pregnant women to be careful, but you really don't have to be too evasive, after all, the musk content in our daily necessities is within a safe range, as for medicinal use, it is still that sentence - follow the doctor's instructions and use it safely.
This is the end of popular science, and the last thing I want to say is that it is not that I can't understand the needs of the plot, but there are also many people who watch the drama seriously, so some screenwriters still have to put some effort into some settings, don't treat the audience as fools. Like the previous "Fireworks in My World", it is to offend all industries by yourself - you guys are writing well, we are going to work overtime.