@prisca_sapientia: China's first emperor sent expeditions across the sea looking for the herbs of immortality, and many historians think the mercury pills he took are what killed him. Several Tang emperors followed the same path after him. Eventually the Daoist alchemists gave up on the furnace and started looking for the elixir inside the body, using breath and visualisation, which is where Chinese inner alchemy comes from. The Western alchemists reached the same conclusion, that the real transformation happens in the practitioner. #alchemy #daoism #taoism #qinshihuang #inneralchemy

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