Hogwarts Gymnastics Professor

Chapter 199 The Four Humors Theory and Science
Lockhart knew that these older wizards were not able to accept new ideas for the time being. Although they had rich experience in their respective professional fields, they still had backward thinking that magic and science were contradictory, and insisted that magic and science could not be integrated.

In the magic world, there is a potion used to treat vision problems, called luminous sand, which is a potion obtained after bat feces are processed.

Wizards believe that luminous sand can improve the eyesight of users, treat myopia, night blindness and conjunctivitis, and the method of use is to take it directly.

But according to Lockhart's investigation and research, this potion called luminous sand is obviously useless, at least it is useless in treating myopia, and Harry Potter, the victim of luminous sand, can testify to this.

Then Lockhart began to study why the magic world clearly saw that luminous sand had no effect on many eye diseases, but still believed that luminous sand was a medicine that could treat eye diseases.

Investigating the origin of Luminous Sand, a traditional potion, left Lockhart a little dumbfounded.

Because wizards believe that bats can fly at night, they believe that bats have very good eyesight. Therefore, they believe that after bat feces are processed and turned into potions, they will have the effect of treating night blindness and myopia.

Lockhart expressed his resentment for this reason in his heart!

This involves a cognitive blind spot of wizards, that is, the way bats navigate. Modern Muggles who have gone to elementary school will generally understand that bats can recognize their way and fly at night. Searching for prey is not because of bats' good eyesight, but because of their good eyesight. It's because bats are actually locating by the echo of ultrasonic waves.

From the actual effect to the principle, there are obvious mistakes in the two most important aspects of the potion, Luminous Sand, and according to Lockhart's investigation, this potion has existed for more than 500 years.

A wrong formula has existed for more than 500 years, and it was not removed until this year by the Red Ghost Society in the process of reforming the education system. It can be said to be extremely harmful and outrageously wrong.

And there are still many wrong potions that have been discovered from the principle to the effect. At present, a lot of work of Pomona Sprout and Snape is to identify the reliability of many herbal medicines and potions' effects and principles.

The herbal medicine and potion classes of the Azkaban University of Magic and Magic also focus on how to verify the principle of a herbal medicine or potion, how to design a double-blind experiment, and how to improve the potion.

In addition, Azkaban Perfume and Health Products Co., Ltd. also carried out drug research work, and made many potions that were originally liquids and could only be bottled, which were inconvenient to carry and transport, into tablets and capsules.

In addition to some useless potion formulas, there are many potions in the magic world that have been found to be effective after thousands of years of practice in the magic world, but the explanation of the principle is very unreliable.

Basically, they are all far-fetched interpretations of the theory of four body fluids and four elements. It roughly means that the world is composed of four elements: earth, air, water, and fire (earth, water, wind, and fire), and the human body also has four elements. Fluids of different properties from different organs.

The brain has mucus.It has a cold nature, and those who lose their mucus will suffer from epilepsy.The liver has yellow bile, which is hot in nature.The stomach has black bile, which has a warming property.Blood comes from the heart and is dry in nature.The combination of these four body fluids in different proportions constitutes different constitutions of a person.

It is also believed that these kinds of body fluids are combined with the four elements of earth, air, water, and fire, and human personality and temperament.

It is believed that sanguine people have the most blood, and their actions are enthusiastic and lively; people with phlegm have a lot of phlegm, and their psychology is calm, good at thinking and calculating; More bile, irritable, violent action.

Some stubborn wizards reprimanded Lockhart's denial of the traditional potion theory, thinking that Lockhart's behavior was an outright act of forgetting the classics.The following are some of the opponents' statements collected by Lockhart:
The theory of four body fluids is the treasure house of human medicine, and it is not a system with science. It is a typical scientism to try to explain the theory of four body fluids with science to prove its error.Can science explain everything?cannot!
Some people say that Potions under the guidance of the theory of four humors is invalid, wrong, and extremely ridiculous. If there is no theory of four humors, can people in the magic world live to this day?Can a brilliant magic civilization be created?People, don't forget your origins, don't you want everything left by Merlin's ancestors!
I have a classmate who is an old American wizard with advanced lung cancer. The Muggle doctors said it was hopeless. Later, I went to see an old potion master and treated him with potions for a month, and he was cured!Not only recovered, but also getting better and better until he died last year at the age of 125!Can modern medicine work? !

I also have a friend who is studying in Asia. His girlfriend is the daughter of an old potion master. She has been taking care of her body under the guidance of Sihuhuhuo since she was a child. She has never been sick for more than 20 years, and she has never had any cold or fever!It is said that his ancestors lived countless lives during the ravages of the Black Death, and even won the title of baron before the implementation of the "International Act of Wizarding Secrecy"!
I really don't understand, there are so many sunspot trolls nowadays, who don't understand four body fluids and dare to spray randomly. What about double-blind tests, is that a systematic thing?
These medicines now treat countless people with just one piece of medicine. This is a typical way of treating the head for headaches and treating feet for foot pains!Everyone is unique, four body fluids are personalized treatment, there is a unique treatment plan for each patient, you can't compare it just by taking a drip or taking a pill!

Human beings are constantly developing, and one day they will realize that modern Muggle medicine, which treats the blind with only one leaf but not Mount Tai, will not work. Return to human nature, and this return requires the holism of the four body fluids to complete!
In short, there are quite a few conservative people in the wizarding world who find it difficult to accept Lockhart's changes in magic theory, although they really enjoy the effects of these potions.

For example, the werewolf problem that the wizarding world has not solved for thousands of years has now been solved. A special virus in the blood of werewolves was passed by Marcus Smart, a potion expert from the Azkaban Perfume and Health Products Company. Discovered under an electron microscope made by Muggles.It was named mad wolf virus.

And the research was carried out quickly. The structure of this virus is not complicated. Marcus Smart relied on his own experience in making wolfbane potion, and quickly found a way to cure mad wolf disease. Mad wolf disease vaccine.

(End of this chapter)