Elixir Flower of Langgan

The passage translated above is also found in Sanshiliu shuifa (Methods of the Thirty-six Aqueous Solutions CT 930), iia. On a similar practice performed before compounding the Elixir Flower of Langgan see above,... 

See below in the present chapter the summaries of the methods of the Reverted Elixir in Nine Cycles and the Elixir Flower of Langgan. 

See Chapter 3. For summaries of the entire method see Schafer, The Transcendent Vitamin, 35-37 and Stric mann, On the Alchemy of T ao Hung-ching, 134-36. The whole Numinous Writ in Purple Characters (Lingshu ziwen), of which the Elixir Flower of Langgan was originally one section, is translated in Bo en amp, Early Daoist Scriptures, 275-372 for the alchemical portion see pp. 331-39. 

Divine, Authentic, and Superior Scripture of the Elixir Flower of Langgan, from the Numinous Writ in Purple Characters of the Great Tenuity]. Fourth century. Daozang, CT 255. 

Directions for building the alchemical laboratory, which is typically called Chamber of the Elixirs (danshi or danwu), are found in both the Reverted Elixir in Nine Cycles and the Flower of Langgan. According to the Reverted Elixir in Nine Cycles an adept retires to a mountain after he has received the method and has performed the purification practices. He builds the laboratory (here called Chamber of the Divine Stove, shenzao wu) and places the furnace lu) inside it, with an iron stand to hold the crucible. The adept should make sure that the Chamber does not touch the ground and is not built over an old well or a tomb ... 

Jiuzhuan Al ) in the other. Both come from the Reverted Elixir in Nine Cycles Two passages concerning the laboratory and the stove are also found in the Flower of Langgan ... 

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