![]() ![]() If the appeal of the elixir was high, so was its price. These elixirs, once ingested, often caused traumatic bodily experiences, and death. These include cinnabar, mercury, lead, sulfur, and arsenic. ![]() The materials used in Chinese tradition were mainly minerals – many of them toxic by modern standard. ![]() Unlike Western alchemy that focused on transmuting metals into gold, Chinese alchemy primarily aimed to make elixirs to achieve immortality. The tradition of alchemy in China is long. ![]()
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