had a small plant that produced products for chemists such as Elixir di China (Elixir of Quinine), Ferrochina (iron and quinine citrate bitters), Rheum...
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Magu is associated with the elixir of life, and is a symbolic protector of females in Chinese mythology. Stories in Chinese literature describe Magu as...
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Qin Shi Huang (redirect from First Emperor of China)
mythical Three Sovereigns (三皇, Sān huáng) and the dì of the legendary Five Emperors (五帝, Wŭ Dì) of Chinese prehistory. The title was intended to appropriate...
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Foundations of Internal Alchemy: The Taoist Practice of Neidan. Golden Elixir Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-9843082-5-5. Wile, Douglas Lost T'ai-chi Classics...
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their recovery from giving birth, while another famous liqueur, Elisir di China [it], contained quinine and was intended to treat malaria. Santa Maria...
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Philosopher's stone (redirect from Elixir stone)
powder". Alchemists additionally believed that it could be used to make an elixir of life which made possible rejuvenation and immortality. For many centuries...
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contained nothing new in Chinese algebra, it had a great impact on the development of Japanese mathematics. In their pursuit for an elixir of life and desire...
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Civilisation in China: Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part III: Spagyrical Technology and Invention, Historical Survey, from Cinnabar Elixirs to Synthetic...
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The Chinese monarchs were the rulers of China during its Ancient and Imperial periods. The earliest rulers in traditional Chinese historiography are of...
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Huanjing bunao (category Sexuality in China)
passages. The Yang enchymoma [dan 丹, Needham's neologism for "elixir within; inner elixir"] can make one ascend (into the heavens); the Yin enchymoma can...
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Qin dynasty (redirect from Qin China)
of his empire in an attempt to procure an elixir of immortality from Taoist magicians, who claimed the elixir was stuck on an island guarded by a sea monster...
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Yuan dynasty (redirect from Yuan China)
towards the west. Chinese medical techniques such as acupuncture, moxibustion, pulse diagnosis, and various herbal drugs and elixirs were transmitted westward...
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Mount Penglai (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
Xu Fu presenting a memorial to the Qin Emperor in order to seek for the elixir of life, there are three godly mountains which are found in the Bohai sea...
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elixirs in early Chinese medicine. Hong identified three ancient Chinese documents, titled Scripture of Great Clarity, Scripture of the Nine Elixirs,...
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Tang dynasty (redirect from Tang China)
Di Cosmo, Nicola (ed.), Military Culture in Imperial China, Harvard University Press, pp. 165–191, ISBN 978-0-674-03109-8 ——— (2012), Sui-Tang China and...
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Taoism (redirect from Daoism(CHINA))
Many Taoist practices work with ancient Chinese understandings of the body, its organs and parts, "elixir fields" (dantien), inner substances (such...
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Emperor Ai of Jin (redirect from Emperor Ai of Jin China)
Emperor Ai of Jin (simplified Chinese: 晋哀帝; traditional Chinese: 晉哀帝; pinyin: Jìn Aī Dì; Wade–Giles: Chin Ai-ti; 341 – March 30, 365), personal name Sima...
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Nonino (category Pavia di Udine)
Nonino on Italtrade "Grappa Monovitigno, IL Merlot", at Aspri Spirits website "Italy's elixir", at Sommelier India website Portals: Italy Liquor Companies...
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Han dynasty (redirect from Han China)
(2005), Ancient Chinese Inventions, translated by Wang Pingxing, Beijing: China Intercontinental Press (五洲传播出版社), ISBN 978-7-5085-0837-5. Di Cosmo, Nicola...
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elixir) in his left. "Chinese Peach Charms – 桃形 – Introduction to Peach Charms". Gary Ashkenazy / גארי אשכנזי (Primaltrek – a journey through Chinese...
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Three Pure Ones (category CS1 uses Chinese-language script (zh))
immortals who had attained celestial status through effort and the proper elixir... Lingbao Tianzun is associated with yin and yang and was responsible as...
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Jiajing Emperor (redirect from Emperor Shizong of Ming China)
The Jiajing Emperor (Chinese: 嘉靖帝; pinyin: Jiājìng Dì; Wade–Giles: Chia-ching Ti; 16 September 1507 – 23 January 1567), also known by his temple name as...
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Shijie (Taoism) (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
ascent, still [left his] head and feet in different places. Mo Di gulped rainbow elixir to throw himself into a river; Young Ning consumed stone brains...
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Diethylene glycol (redirect from Di-ethylene glycol)
Federal Agents Traced Elixir to Halt Fatalities". The New York Times. November 26, 1937. Retrieved 2009-07-20. Wax P.M. (1995). "Elixirs, diluents, and the...
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Alpinia zerumbet (category Articles with Chinese-language sources (zh))
World Flora Online Bouthier, Antoine. "Okinawan plant holds promise of elixir of youth". Business World Online. BusinessWorld Publishing. Retrieved 4...
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Yongzheng Emperor (redirect from Yongzheng Emperor of China)
and it is likely that his death was the result of elixir poisoning from an overdose of the elixir of immortality he was consuming in the belief that...
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Zhi (excrescences) (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
Civilisation in China. Vol. V: Chemistry and Chemical Technology. Part 3: Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Historical Survey, from Cinnabar Elixirs to Synthetic...
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Lingzhi (mushroom) (category CS1 Chinese-language sources (zh))
(버섯) meaning "mushroom". Other common names include bullocho (불로초; 不老草; "elixir grass") and jicho (지초; 芝草). According to color, yeongji mushrooms can be...
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Four occupations (redirect from Four occupations (China))
occupations (simplified Chinese: 士农工商; traditional Chinese: 士農工商; pinyin: Shì nóng gōng shāng), or "four categories of the people" (Chinese: 四民; pinyin: sì mín)...
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Ginkgo biloba (category Endemic flora of China)
Archived from the original on 5 May 2018. Retrieved 5 May 2018. "A Genetic Elixir of Life Helps Millennia-Old Ginkgo Trees Escape Death". Smithsonian Magazine...
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