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Will there ever be a Amber skies audiobook?
Max
2025-04-09 00:53:08 +0000 UTC[Paracelsus agreed that there were two alchemical substances: Sulphur, which gives substances form, and Mercury, which drives activity, but there is also Salt which denotes mass.] Yeah I enjoyed that earlier post that was describing how like all flower petals rotted became ethanol and that was sulphur of flowers, while flower petals essential oil was mercury because that was the mercury of flowers. (or something like that). Like if you look at a chemistry textbook nowadays, we don't teach modern chemistry this way, in terms of practical applications and observations, that you can actually apply to random shit. It's all theoretical and using equipment inaccessible like say, [electron microscope]s. Chemistry taught in high school is dependent on trust of what people are telling you instead of experiments to show reality which is such a waste. Like most schools can't afford electron microscopes anyway but flower distillation equipment should be relatively cheap, and yet what school does? Gentrified the art of alchemy. [tinctures that contained astrologically potent yet biologically toxic substances like mercury, or antimony. ] Oh yes one of the advertisements in the "modern" version of the ben cao gang mu (Compendium of Materia Medica) that i bought from temu was that they removed all the poisonous substances lol. But also its not like people stopped making this mistake in the modern age. There are lots of discontinued drugs that poison people. Mercury was used to treat syphilis in the 19th century, like it worked, so it was a treatment. Santonin used tobe used an anthelminthic from the mid-19th century to the 1950s, and it was to poison the worm before it poisoned you, which also meant that it gives you yellow vision and aphasia and tremors and shit. Potent yet bioogically toxic! [You can only use what materials you can get your hands on. How long do you think it would take to invent the particle accelerator?] How many people nowadays, what percent of the population, would even be able to see a particle accelerator in person nowadays? [These stages can additionally be broken down into several steps. The number of these steps will vary from alchemist to alchemist, but the most common form of the process involves ten steps. They are: ] Very interesting take a look at this link (use google translate): https://zhongyibaodian.com/zhongyaoxue/69-1-1.html Instructions on processing plants. Some relevant quotes: "1. Eliminate or reduce the toxicity, potency and side effects of drugs: For example, raw pinellia and raw arisaema are poisonous, and they can be detoxified by processing them with ginger and alum . For example, croton is highly poisonous, and removing the oil and using cream can reduce its toxicity." "3. For example, chopping plant drugs into small pieces makes it easier to decoct; calcining mineral drugs makes it easier to grind into powder. For example, some raw drugs must be baked after being collected to make them fully dry for storage." "Soaking means soaking the medicine in water to reduce the potency or irritation of the original medicine, such as soaking Polygala tenuifolia and Evodia rutaecarpa in licorice water.""Direct fire: Suitable for drugs that are not easy to break, such as magnets and oysters . Place the drug on a wire mesh and calcine it in a smokeless fire."
Kotorium
2025-04-01 19:34:36 +0000 UTC
