What kind of alchemy was taken in ancient times, is it true in ancient times?

It should be true that most of the Taoist priests served the royal family.

The materials used in ancient alchemy were as wide as various mineral, plant, and animal elements. There are all kinds of materials used in ancient alchemy, most of which will add heavy metals such as ** and mercury, because the ancients believed that **, mercury and other metals are immortal, and the elixir refined by the Dan furnace can transfer this immortality to people and achieve immortality.

Alchemy is a Taoist word, and the process of alchemy is to put a variety of chemical raw materials into containers such as the Shenjing Qidan furnace, and finally refine them into a mixture after high temperature treatment.

Alchemy is the ancient people's method of refining pills in pursuit of "longevity", although the alchemy in ancient China is mixed with various superstitious ingredients, but also enriches the content of traditional medicine in China.

The ancient alchemists were personally engaged in collecting and dispensing medicines, and through a large number of repeated chemical experiments, they consciously or unintentionally developed the primitive chemical industry, which can be regarded as the ancestor of modern chemistry.

1. Ancient Chinese alchemists discovered gunpowder in the process of alchemy. The great physician Sun Simiao lived in the Sui and early Tang dynasties, and was originally from Jing Zhaohua. He was well-versed in the history of hundreds of schools of science, proficient in Taoist scriptures and Buddhist scriptures, summarized the clinical theories before the Tang Dynasty, collected prescriptions, acupuncture and other contents, and compiled books such as "Qianjin Yao Fang" and "Qianjin Yifang", which made great contributions to medicine and was respected by later generations"The King of Medicine"。

2. He is not only a great pharmacist, but also a famous alchemist, self-proclaimed"Sun Zhenren"。On the basis of summarizing the experience of previous alchemists, he collected the formulas of the slag rocks in the Heluo area and the Guanzhong area, and finally proposed a more effective formula such as the sulfur fire method.

3. Alchemy is a general term for refining outer and inner pills. Wai Dan Shu originated from Huang Lao Dao, which is to smelt minerals in the Dan furnace to make "Xian Dan" jujube collapse, and then the human body is intended to be used as a furnace to practice the essence of Qi and God, which is called Nei Danshu. Wai Dan refers to the Taoist smelting of pills through various secret methods, which are used to eat, or directly consume certain sesame herbs, in order to ignite their own yin and turn them into yang energy.

Chen Shidao's note: "Taoism takes the cooking of gold and stone as the outer Dan, the dragon and the tiger are fetal, and the old and the new are the inner Dan."

The ancients in China recognized and invented gunpowder when they were alchemy. In order to seek immortality, the alchemists of the ancient Chinese clan refined the elixir and used fire to refine the pill, which contributed to the invention of gunpowder.

Gunpowder is one of the four great inventions in ancient China, with a history of more than 1,000 years, gunpowder is a substance that can burn rapidly and regularly under the action of appropriate external energy, and at the same time generate a large number of high-temperature gas. In the military, it is mainly used as a propellant for guns and shells, propellant for rockets and other energy sources to drive Xuntong devices, and is an important part of ammunition. Originally used primarily in medicine, as evidenced by the word "medicine" in its name, gunpowder was later introduced to Europe for military use.

Ge Hong of the Jin Dynasty recorded in "Hug Puzi" that alchemy roughly includes: calcining, refining, moxibustion, melting, pumping, flying, and excellence. According to research, these are the most basic chemical methods:

Long-term high temperature plus mu limb tantan, heating dry substance, local baking, melting, distillation, sublimation, heating to denature the substance. In addition, sulfur, saltpeter, and carbon are often used in alchemy, so ** and fires often occur in the alchemy process. After accumulating experience, the alchemists discovered that sulfur, nitrate, and carbon could form an extremely flammable medicine, which was the prototype of gunpowder.

Alchemy has"Fire method"with"Water Law"。"Fire method"Includes:"Calcined", i.e., long-term high-temperature heating; "Chain", i.e. heating of dry matter; "Seake", i.e., local baking; "Melting", i.e., heating and melting; "Pump", i.e. distillation; "Fly", i.e., sublimation; "Volt"That is, heating denatures the drug.

Water Law"Includes:"Chemistry", i.e., dissolve; "Drizzle", i.e. a part of the solid matter dissolved with water; "Sealed"That is, the reactive substance is closed and left to stand for a long time; "Cook", i.e. the substance is heated in a large amount of water; "Boil", i.e., long-term high-temperature heating with water; "raise", i.e., long-term low-temperature heating; "Pour", i.e., pouring out the solution and letting it cool; "stains", i.e. cooling from the outside of the container with cold water. In addition, there are:"Stuffed"、"Dot"and filtration, recrystallization, and other methods.

Huang Laozhixue, there is a prototype of alchemy in the ancient witch culture, the outside world says that it is to prolong life, but I think it is to consolidate people's morality.

Immortality and immortality.

The ancients practiced most of the heavy metals such as mercury, and if you eat it, you will not be able to prolong your life and die.