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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