Why does everyone think that eel oil makes people live forever? Didn't the movie clearly say that the thing that people live for is water? Taking a step back, the elixir should also be human oil instead of eel oil. The role of eel is to filter water into a non-toxic state.
The essence of the elixir should be human oil, the raw material is groundwater, and both eels and humans are filters that filter groundwater. The baron should have discovered that the eels in the groundwater were extremely long-lived, so he wanted to drink the groundwater to prolong his life. But after drinking it, it was found that drinking groundwater directly would cause poisoning, causing tooth loss, hallucinations, and parasitism by eels. After experiments, he found that using eels and humans to make a filter, first treat the water, and then distill to obtain human oil, which can achieve the effect of detoxification and retain the efficacy of the medicine.
So there are actually two kinds of drugs that appear in this movie, respectively:
Groundwater: It has a longevity effect on eels, but it is toxic to humans. Toxicity includes hallucinations, tooth loss, chronic dehydration (suspected), mental disorders (you can see that the elderly are obviously mentally abnormal, and they are still dancing when the nursing home is on fire); in addition, eel eggs in the water may also cause parasitism.
Human oil: medicine obtained by distilling eel and groundwater into the human body. Yellow and smelly, regular use can delay aging (can not stop aging, as can be seen from female nurses with sagging breasts), and can improve fertility (the mode of action is unknown, the effects include increasing the probability of pregnancy and reducing the probability of deformity); It is used to treat major diseases and help restore health (the Baron who was severely burned and Hannah who was born by caesarean section survived on this). However, the side effect is that if human oil is taken as an underage, it will cause a significant slowdown in development.
The method of making the medicine for life should consist of two steps. One is to drink water for people, and then pour the eel for distillation after drinking. If it can be distilled directly, then the baron doesn’t need to let the male lead mess around, just throw it in the jar.
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