Yellow Flowery Pond

Divine Mud (shenni). In the methods of the Nine Elixirs, this mud is made of alum (fanshi), Turkestan salt (rongyan), lake salt (luxian), arsenolite yu-shi), oyster shells (muli), red clay (chishi zhi), and talc (huashi). The seven ingredients are pounded, heated for nine days and nights in an iron vessel, pounded again, sieved, and then soaked in a Flowery Pond (huachi). The crucible is luted first with this mud, then with the mud of Mysterious and Yellow, and finally is left to dry in the sun for ten daysd ... 

Smear the crucible with the mud both inside and outside, making each layer three-tenths of an inch thick, and let it dry in the sun for ten days. Then take some white lead (hufen), and heat it until it becomes golden. Place it in a hundred-day Flowery Pond with an equal amount of the Mysterious and Yellow prepared earlier. 

Then again add the Mysterious and Yellow to a hundred-day Flowery Pond, so that it becomes like mud." ... 

Fu ( to ingest ) should be emended to fu ( again ) the Mysterious and Yellow was already added to the Flowery Pond for the initial coating of the crucible, according to the method of the Mud of the Six-and-One given above. 

On the Mysterious and Yellow, the Mysterious and White, and the Flowery Pond see above. Chapter 5. 

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