Many people may be convinced when they see such news, because there are often similar plots in Gong Dou's plays, in which concubines use musk to frame other concubines so that they can't get pregnant. In Empresses in the Palace, An Lingrong added musk to Shuhan glue, which caused Zhen Xuan to miscarry.
So is this true or not? Let's learn what musk is first!
Natural musk is a secretion extracted from the glands of forest musk deer. Male forest musk deer will secrete musk at maturity to attract the opposite sex to mate with them. High concentration of musk does not smell fragrant, but if diluted with alcohol, it will give off a very special fragrance, so it has been used as a perfume in China and India since ancient times.
This is the forest musk deer:
This is the musk deer's sachet:
Musk is not only used as a spice, but also widely used as a medicinal material in traditional Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine believes that musk has the function of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Can musk cause infertility? Speak with science!
Scientists in China once experimented with mice: mice were injected with 20 mg of artificial musk every day. After a period of time, compared with the control group, the pregnancy rate of mice in the experimental group decreased by 17-40%.
Japanese scientists have also done an experiment, soaking mouse uterine smooth muscle in musk solution, and found that low concentration of musk does promote smooth muscle contraction, but if the concentration of musk is further increased, it will inhibit smooth muscle contraction.
These two animal experiments show that musk does have an effect on the reproduction of mice, but whether it has the same effect on humans has not been verified by experiments at present, and the concentration of musk in both experiments is quite large. The concentration of perfume containing musk is definitely not that high for ordinary people, but I still suggest not to use perfume containing musk as much as possible during pregnancy and pregnancy.