12-12-2022, 02:04 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-12-2022, 02:06 AM by Carl Lavoie.)
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Most traditional Chinese methods of health preservation, including qigong, martial arts and traditional Chinese medicine, have links with Taoism. Ancient Chinese Taoists were enthusiastic alchemists, who attempted to produce immortality pills by smelting minerals such as aluminum and mercury. The experiments in alchemy, though irrational from a modern viewpoint, greatly promoted advances in science and technology in ancient China, including the production of gunpowder and ancient chemistry.
Waidan, which arose at least from the 2nd century BCE, is based on the compounding of elixirs through the manipulation of natural substances (especially minerals and metals) and the heating of ingredients in a crucible. Its texts contain recipes, descriptions of ingredients, ritual rules, and passages concerned with the associations of ingredients, instruments, and operations to the Chinese cosmological system.
https://www.goldenelixir.com/jindan.html
Most traditional Chinese methods of health preservation, including qigong, martial arts and traditional Chinese medicine, have links with Taoism. Ancient Chinese Taoists were enthusiastic alchemists, who attempted to produce immortality pills by smelting minerals such as aluminum and mercury. The experiments in alchemy, though irrational from a modern viewpoint, greatly promoted advances in science and technology in ancient China, including the production of gunpowder and ancient chemistry.
Waidan, which arose at least from the 2nd century BCE, is based on the compounding of elixirs through the manipulation of natural substances (especially minerals and metals) and the heating of ingredients in a crucible. Its texts contain recipes, descriptions of ingredients, ritual rules, and passages concerned with the associations of ingredients, instruments, and operations to the Chinese cosmological system.
https://www.goldenelixir.com/jindan.html