Taoist Texts

actually just one was positively identified so far ( i happen to translate a tcm pharmacology manual on it right now) http://www.chineseherbshealing.com/aristolochia-fangchi-guang-fang-ji/

Anytime It depends on the amount you plan to take. If its a couple of pills per day - the distillation does not matter; if more - the distilled being more potent can cause side effects. However the issue is the mechanism of sap's action on the body. Unfortunately it only works when all other food intake is stopped.

Sorry no, it seems they removed it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowns_of_Silla

tons of it Succinum (Amber): Use in Chinese Medicine www.itmonline.org/arts/amber.htm Succinum originates from the resin of ancient and long-extinct trees, including conifers (e.g., pine trees) as well Fabaceae and other genera. To become amber ... Succinum (Amber, Hu Po) - Chinese Herbs Healing www.chineseherbshealing.com/succinum-amber/ As a matter of fact, it is kind of fossilized resin of prehistoricpine trees and has ... been used in Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and homeopathic remedy. Early Daoist Dietary Practices: Examining Ways to Health ... https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0739178938 Shawn Arthur - 2013 - ‎Religion The text says, “Pine sap tastes bitter and is moist. ... Whereas the Bencao jing focuses on pine sap, later Chinesepharmacopoeia describe the benefits of the ... Modernpharmacological research has examined many parts of the pine and has ... Encyclopedia of Traditional Chinese Medicines - Molecular ... https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=3642167446 Jiaju Zhou, ‎Guirong Xie, ‎Xinjian Yan - 2011 - ‎Medical ... Northern Catalpa Northern Dutchmanspipe Northern Dutchmanspipe Root Northern Monkshood* Northern Pitch PineNorthern Wolfberry Root-bark* Northsea ... Medieval Chinese Medicine: The Dunhuang Medical Manuscripts https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=1134291310 Christopher Cullen, ‎Vivienne Lo - 2004 - ‎Health & Fitness ... 30 pharmacological illustrations 301, 304–5, 417pharmacology 12–13, 322, ... 39, 56, 86; ingesting 278 'pills of black gold' 39 pine resin pills 408 pine-soot ... Pine Herbal Monograph - Natural Herbal Living Magazine https://naturalherballiving.com/pine-herbal-monograph/ also Asceticism in Early Taoist Religion - Stephen Eskildsen ... books.google.com › History › Asia › GeneralAsceticism in Early Taoist Religion demonstrates that although Taoist ascetics ... Eskildsen traces how this problem may have emerged, and how it was viewed ...

“Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other peoples' freedom and security.” ― William F. Buckley Jr.

i promise;) Narrater Long ago, there was a dealer who was in hurry going up to Kinokuni-hill in Akasaka Tokyo. Dealer "This is not cool. I'll be late. But if I'm late this time, I'll get fired !" "Oh" Narrater As you see, there is a person crying alone at the end of the hill. It seems to be a lady. Lady "Boo-hoo..." Dealer "Why are you crying that much ? What's wrong with you ? Come on, please stop crying and tell me what's wrong. I can help you" Lady "Boo-hoo..." Dealer "Please, lady. Please listen to me." The lady turns around and shows her face Dealer "Aaaaaah!!" The dealer runs off and into the audience. The lady exits the stage. Narrater The dealer ran through the hill, frantically. He kept running. After a while he found a light on the other side of hill. It was a noodle-stall, in which he found the light. Dealer "Aaahh...Aaahh...Aaahh.." Noodle vendor "Look here(?). What's wrong with you ?" Customer　"Have you been attacked by a robber or something ?" Dealer "I..I saw...a lady..on the other side of here.... It was night. She was crying ....I spoke to her, being worried about her. Then....she showed her..." Noodle vendor "...Okay ?...So she showed her...what ?" Dealer "Yeah...you asked what she showed ? I can't say !" Noodle vendor "Well.....is the thing she showed was...." Noodle vendor and customer "...something like this ?" Dealer "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh" Narrater Also, as for you ladies and gentlemen, please be careful when going up a hill. Otherwise... We'll show ourselves in front of you.

You know Daeliun's essays are pleasant to read but hard to follow. Usually i have to reread them 3-4 times just to get the general idea. You are pretty cryptic too at times btw;)

What do you mean hard to find? There are like a bakers dozen of them on this forum alone, and zillions of them on the web. Now, may be you mean the recent photographs of their rapidly aging faces are hard to find...

A youngish guy selling rejuvenation. Not much hands on experience there)) is a non existent hint a sign that something is wrong? Even if these rejuvenation salesmen retouch the photographs of their twenty-something faces, the creeping up signs of the old age will be obvious. The jowls that begin to sag, the receding hairline, the weakened eyes can not be hid. Thats why there is no pictures. How long before those naive enough to go for a personal meeting will be taken aback by their sight muttering 'But dude..you look old'. I am figuring 3-4 years. One reason for that is their death certificate is dated 1834.)

Godwin's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law Godwin's Law (or Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies) What took you so long?

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I dont understand. You teach internal alchemy with knowing the answer to a pretty basic question? What about your teachers? Do they know?

I will be a dear and eversohelpfully bump this up;)

Finally! An honest alchemist! You are the man. Respect and sincere wishes for you to succeed.

Great so you learned from books, thats fantastic. Any luck on making the elixir yet?

What cosmic role? That is why there are no pictures of the masters who allegedly are not subject to these things. Because they are. (wink wink)

黄帝受还丹至道于玄女。玄女者，天女也。黄帝合而服之，遂以登仙。玄女告黄帝日：凡欲长生，而不得神丹金液，徒自苦耳。虽呼吸导引，吐故纳新，及服草木之药，可得延年，不兔于死也 No, it is exact. 可得延年，can extend years 不兔于死也 will not escape death

So you have seen no alchemist. Could you please tell us how your plan to become an alchemist yourself will work?

Because people pay more for the neidan promises of the health+rejuvenation+longevity+xianhood combo. Without getting anything eventually, of course.

Yes especially the bit about the horse manure. That just have to be about neidan, what else? 天下有道，卻走馬以糞。天下無道，戎馬生於郊。禍莫大於不知足；咎莫大於欲得。故知足之足，常足矣。 When the Dao prevails in the world, they send back their swift horses to (draw) the dung- carts

Nathan could you please clarify. Does neidan involve attaining rejuvenation and/ or physical immortality?

I think this thread is just for saying things, no stinking sources required. Waidan is the oldest! No neidan is the oldest! Waidan! Neidan! hehe;)

is that why they are a called a different name?

yep. denial is not just a river in egypt.