How did the ancient West prevent and cure diseases?

All I know is the Middle Ages, when there were no doctors at all.

Some are directly cut off if there is a disease, and the drugs are varied, such as: wolf skin, mud, mercury, I don't know if it can be cured or not, anyway, the Arab doctors of the same era said that they were too barbaric in treatment.

Before the 19th century, Western medicine was not a little different from Chinese medicine, and it was basically not much different from witchcraft. At that time, Western medicine mainly dealt with patients by three means: drinking the "holy water" given by the church, bloodletting** and opium tincture. It's very low-level technology.

The first is the "holy water" given by the church. Europeans do not have the habit of drinking hot water, so it is both "holy water" and raw water. To put it bluntly, holy water is the same as China's immortal quest, just theology, typical feudal superstition.

But it doesn't matter, the cure of "holy water" must be its credit, if it is not cured, the conclusion is that the timing is wrong and the heart is not sincere.

The second method is bloodletting, which comes from the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, according to his view, all people rely on four body fluids: blood, mucus, black bile, and yellow bile. Later, the ancient Roman physician Galen also believed that blood can provide "vitality" to people, so if someone is sick, it must be because there is too much blood in the body, resulting in too much vitality.

If a person is sick, the "excess" blood in the body must be drained.

So, in Guda Europe, whether you have a cold and fever, or pneumonia and cough, you will be punished with bloodletting**. Looks a bit like punishment. It seems to be similar to stimulate people's hematopoietic function, stimulate vitality, and defeat the virus.

The third way is to eat opium tincture, opium tincture is produced in the Middle East, belongs to the "imported medicine", although it is not expensive, but because the ancient Europeans regarded it as a miracle medicine. As the greatest physician in ancient Europe, Galen believed that opium could prevent poisoning and poisonous insect bites, and could prevent all kinds of diseases such as chronic headaches, epilepsy, stroke, various coughs, diseases, depression and plague, etc.

In the 16th century, there was a medical wizard named Parassos in Europe, and one of the secrets of his success was the use of opium tincture. Before the discovery of bacteria, European medicine did not understand the disease, they felt that the disease was pain, they just wanted to reduce the pain, so they didn't know how to ** the disease, you can imagine how many people were delayed.

Therefore, opium tincture is also very popular, no matter what kind of disease, just have some opium tincture. According to statistics, during the reign of Queen Victoria, opium tincture was basically a common medicine at home, fever, cold, headache, brain fever, vomiting and diarrhea, all relied on him.

Therefore, although the life of ancient Chinese people is much lower than that of modern times, it is a very happy thing compared to ancient Europe, and when you travel to Europe, you have to pray not to catch a cold or something, not to let it be regarded as other diseases, let some blood, eat some opium, if you want not to be cured, you can only rely on the will of God.

1. If you were sick in the ancient West, the first thing that came to mind was prayer, yes, you heard it right, because it is God who makes people sick, and "sickness" represents the punishment of people's sins, so it is natural to pray and repent, of course, this method is obviously unreliable.

2. Witchcraft, similar to ancient China.

The great god of jumping is to mutter professional terms back and forth with a magic weapon, and sometimes sprinkle a holy water.

If it happens that the patient recovers by himself, he will take it as his own credit, which shows that the ancient people in the West did not have a very good way to see a doctor, so they were able to appear in the name of eliminating witches.

3. The use of plants and animals to cure diseases, according to records, ancient Rome.

Medical classics have recorded 540 kinds of plants, more than 180 kinds of animals, and 100 kinds of ores used for ** diseases, which shows that ancient Western medicine and Chinese medicine have also had similarities, and may not have been further improved and popularized due to theological intervention and other reasons.

4. Bloodletting**, this method is very famous in ancient Western history, and the theoretical system comes from ancient Greece.

The four humors of the doctor San Seepocrates even appeared for different diseases, and the parts of the bloodletting were also different**. Famous Washington**.

It is to die of bloodletting**.

The theoretical basis of phlebotomy in the West is derived from the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates.

And Garin, said that human life depends on four kinds of bodily fluids, blood, mucus, black bile and yellow bile, these four bodily fluids correspond to air, water, earth and fire, and the Chinese "gold, wood, water, fire, and earth" are close, with more "qi" and less "gold".

The ancient Greeks believed that blood was dominant among the four body fluids, and Dr. Garin believed that blood was produced by the human body and was often "excessive", just as the Yin School of Chinese medicine said that "Yang often has excess Yin and Yin is often insufficient".

Galin is also associated with the arteriovenous vessels under the skin of the human body and the internal organs of the body, the so-called "phase surface inside", to get different diseases, on the "phase surface" blood vessels open the mouth to bleed, such as the right arm vein blood ** liver disease.

Put the blood in the vein of the left arm ** spleen disease.

5. In addition, there are fumigation, enema, burning, penance and other methods, all in all, whether it is useful or not, you have to give it a try, dead horses as live horse doctors, in case you can really get sick.

In ancient times, foreigners were generally bloodletting when they got sick, and some used animals and plants to get sick, and the medical conditions were not very good.

In ancient times, foreigners did not have the same developed technology as traditional Chinese medicine, so if they were sick, they were still relatively backward in the way they adopted, and they could only use some simple animals and plants to ** their own diseases.

Foreigners had already learned to operate at that time**, they did not have anesthetics. It's all cut like this, and they've made Western medicine in the same way.

According to records, the ancient Roman medical classics have recorded 540 kinds of plants, more than 180 kinds of animals, and 100 kinds of ores used for ** diseases, which shows that ancient Western medicine and Chinese medicine have similarities.

Bloodletting. Cut an incision on the finger or leg, bleed, they think the lesion is in the blood, just let it out.

It depends on which part of the West you are talking about, and how ancient it is. In medieval Europe, it was said that their doctors generally gave a little blood to people, and regarded it as a good medicine for diseases, and the so-called medicinal materials were almost all hallucinogenic drugs. Ancient Rome had some surgical knowledge, some health knowledge, and the means of treatment were said to be quite strong.

The rest will have to wait for the professional personnel to answer.

In fact, there are also ancient medicines and herbal medicines in the West. It's just that we don't know much about it.

Moreover, Western medicine is constantly evolving, and Westerners believe that truth does not exist in the past, but in the present. Therefore, the ancient medical skills were rarely used to treat diseases, and there was no publicity, so that we now only know that Western medicine is a set of surgical dissection

Do you know witchcraft? In fact, that was the so-called medical skill in medieval Europe. In fact, the ancient medical techniques in Europe are similar to ours, all of which use various medicinal materials to be processed (boiled or something, don't wizards often stir a cauldron) to cure diseases.

However, the medical skills of the Middle Ages were not as developed as those of our China, so there was an epidemic of the Black Death. It was not until the later Renaissance and Industrial Revolution that modern Western medicine officially appeared, which was the first period representing the development of medical technology in real science. Huhu code words are very hard, the landlord adopts it

There weren't so many complicated diseases in ancient times.

It is nothing more than heat, cold, void, wind, yang and dry gold, less yang phase fire, less yin and king's fire, water, earth, and similar diseases. In fact, cholera "diseases" are also caused by this.

It's up to you who's going to do it for you. The medical skills of the ancient people were much higher than those of the current people, and many methods of treatment have been lost. Modern medicine simply can't be compared.

If you have time, you can take a look at the ancient medical collections such as "The Yellow Emperor's Neijing" and "Treatise on Typhoid Fever", and you will understand.

There are also many kinds of doctors in ancient times, the most common are folk Chinese medicine (of course, there will be many **) monks, Taoist priests, and witchcraft. All of these methods can cure the disease. But there will be ** who will come out and ruin their reputation.

The most powerful thing in modern medicine should be Japan, and little Japan has to complete all kinds of experiments at all costs, hehe, so people are amazing.

In ancient China, if a person who had not eaten for a long time ate a lot of food suddenly, he would be strangled to death, and some doctors would pour some children's urine into them to relieve his discomfort.

For example, the "Compendium of Materia Medica" records ten years of sores, dried on the tiles with sow zero (pig manure), diluted with water, and applied to the affected area for 3 days, and the sores can be cured. Another example is the human placenta, which was also used by the ancients to treat diseases.

In ancient times, when medical skills were not developed, there were many strange ways to treat diseases. For example, devouring tapeworms, so as to achieve the purpose of **. There is also the use of iron cautery ** hemorrhoids.

The most bizarre way of curing diseases in ancient China is to eat furnace ash to cure all kinds of diseases, and drinking Fu water can cure diseases, which is really a deception to people's lives.

There is a strange way to cut meat as a medicinal root and give it to the sick to drink.