Sanshiliu shuifa

Place one pound of cinnabar (dansha) in a cylinder of fresh bamboo, and add two ounces of chalcanthite (shidan) and four ounces of saltpeter xi-aoshi). Seal the openings of the bamboo tube with lacquer, and leave the tube in an acetic bath. The solution is ready in thirty days. [Sanshiliu shuifa,... 

Methods of the Thirty-six Aqueous Solutions Sanshiliu shuifa)... 

As remarked in the note by the editor of the Nine Elixirs, the methods for liquefying realgar and cinnabar are found in the Sanshiliu shuifa (Methods of the Thirty-six Aqueous Solutions CT 930, ib-2a and 2b trans. Ts ao, Ho, and Needham, An Early Mediaeval Chinese Alchemical Text on Aqueous Solutions, 125-26). Both are quoted in the Jiudan jingjue, S.qa-b. The Secret Instructions, 20.7b 9a, gives the method... 

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,... 

This chapter describes procedures for making aqueous solutions, most of which are quoted from the Methods of the Thirty-six Aqueous Solutions (Sanshiliu shuifa In particular, this chapter explains... 

Methods of the Thirty-six Aqueous Solutions Sanshiliu shuifa) Passages concerning the ceremony of transmission, the Medicine for Expelling the Demons quegui yao the preparation of the crucible, the Mysteri-... 

Jiudan jingjue, i.za-b Sanshiliu shuifa, i2a-b Taiqing shibi ji, i.4a-b Taiqing jinye shendan jing, 1.7a. 

For the sentence on the Branches of Earth and the Stems of Heaven tian-gan) I follow the Taiqing jinye shendan jing, i.4a-b, and the Sanshiliu shuifa I2a-b, which read fan zhigan for ji zhi tian. 

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