Elixir in Pellets

Fifth Elixir Elixir in Pellets (erdan). The ingredients of the Fifth Elixir are mercury, realgar, and hematite. The crucible is luted with the Mud of the Six-and-One and a mud of Mysterious and Yellow, and is heated in two cycles of nine days each. 

The Soft Elixir and the Elixir in Pellets are the Seventh and the Fifth Elixir, respectively. 

A similar recipe for the Pellet for Expelling the Demons is found in Sun Simiao s anthology of Taiqing methods, the Essential Instructions from the Scripture of the Elixirs of Great Clarity. The corresponding talisman is not reproduced either in the commentary to the Scripture of Great Clarity or in Sun Simiao s work, but is found in the commentary to the Nine Elixirs (see Fig. z) together with a third similar recipe for the Pellet. ... 

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