Secret Recipe for Elixir

Written by Chengzi, a Qing teacher, and edited by Fang Chengpei. Volume Two. Chengzi, a native of Pudong, was fond of immortality and often traveled around, diagnosing diseases and selling medicine. In the process of practicing medicine, he compiled the prescriptions and compiled them into this book, which is about 19,000 words. Published in the fifty-seventh year of Kangxi (1718). The volume contains a general introduction to elixirs, ten examples of elixirs, and twenty-five prescriptions such as Wuqi Chao Yuanyang, Jiuzhuan Lingsha Dan, Yang Qishen Powder, and Yin Liushen Powder; the volume contains nearly thirty prescriptions such as Yang Dan method and Yin Dan method, as well as the preparation methods of various medicines such as sulfur preparation method, realgar preparation method, sand preparation method, and mercury preparation method. Mainly surgical diseases, with clear veins. The prescriptions and theories are unprecedented in other books and can be compared with "Liu Juanzi's Ghost Prescriptions".