Honey.. moon.. Fish mean - man..
Ancient sweets
Fish read interesting story today about honeyman.
A mellified man, or a human mummy confection, was a legendary medicinal substance created by steeping a human cadaver in honey.
Fascinating. What ancient humans would do for living healthy life. Nowadays reaction to covid is nothing compared to eating some sweet human flesh.
The book Chuogeng Lu by Tao Jiucheng: It is recorded that in the Tianfang country there was an old man 70 or 80 years old was willing to sacrifice his body for the general public. So he stopped taking any food except for drinking honey daily. He washed himself repeatedly. After a month, his stools and urine all turned into honey. After his death, people in the country kept him in a stone coffin filled with honey. The date was inscribed on the stone coffin and it was buried in the ground. After 100 years, the body became a kind of honey-preserved thing that was used as a drug. When someone was suffering from an injury to his body, including bone fractures, a little of the "honey man" could be taken as a drug. It worked right away. Even in that country, this was something very precious. It was called "honey man. The above is quoted from Tao Jiucheng's book. It is not known whether this is true or not. So it is recorded at the end of this section for further study. (tr. Luo 2003:4189)
Traditional Chinese medicines derived from the human body
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