Sex Secrets of Chinese emperors

Just like the kings in various parts of the world, the emperor of China also likes to hunt. There are times when the king came out accompanied by his loyal aides and bodyguards. Rabbits and deer often become the main target of the arrow of the king.

In addition to tasty meat, these animals are very agile and his run is not less powerful than the emperor riding horses and followers. Thus, the emperor could be horse riding as well as in physical exercise when sweat soaked golden robes of the king that the sun was shining buffeted by increasingly passionate desire to hunt. Moreover, the king not only motivated by the difficulty of getting the animals that were agile.

"There are drugs that are being sought the emperor!" said Dr.. Grace, the experts of traditional Chinese medicine (Traditional Chinese Medicine or TCM) in a conversation at the Clinic of Shanghai, where he practiced.

Each time a deer or elk arrow pierced the king's young, straight horns cut off. "Well, the blood that flowed from the horn, so the most a few drops, put in a cup that had been given wine, drink immediately," he said. And, that's the sure cure for the virility of the king.

Tens of thousands of
This is a glimpse of the story that are often contained in the stories of ancient Chinese literature. Sip a drop or two drops of blood from deer antlers is a small herb used by Chinese emperors to increase stamina and virility. "There are thousands of herbs that are used," he said.

Thousands of herbs that is a combination and variation of several herbal ingredients or simplicia called the doctors as a libido booster and stamina.

According to Dr. Grace, the core of the herb is basically to improve or strengthen the energy (ginseng, astragalus, dang roots of zinc), strengthens the blood (dang qui, chuan xiong) and kidney (deer antlers, Morinda officinalis how, stem and root parasites, and cistanche salsa which in China is called roucongrong).

Herbal ingredients to be the only means of physical exercise such as tai chi and kung fu is not always done the emperor, although there is also a physical training is to strengthen stamina in bed. "Taichi useful to strengthen the waist," said David Sungahandra sines.

The recipes are definitely different levers between physician of the emperor of the imperial physician before or after. "The recipes are important to the emperor because they were busy with the daily affairs of state," said Dr. Rahmat.

Moreover, that must be visited by the emperor was the concubines numbering tens. So, with a tight schedule, the emperor should follow a variety of protocol. Starting from the drink recipe to determine the day and who consorts to be visited.

Since noon, the concubines who already knew would be visited by the emperor had to prepare myself. "Massage, bathing, and grooming the beautiful is part of the protocol to be served the concubines," said Dr. Rahmat.

For the emperor, the procedure was so complicated. The king was quite a shower and was given medicine that afternoon, before making the concubines are "upside down" at night. (GHS / Abdi Susanto)