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2023-06-19

Volume 264: The Section on Elixirs and Dietary Remedies — Immortal Elixirs and Dietary Remedies
The Immortal’s Method of Wearing the Lingzhi to Lighten the Body and Fly
Take one-inch‑long, eight‑to‑nine‑segment pieces of lingzhi mushroom from the rocks—ten jin in total. Dry them in the sun, grind into a powder, steam for one hour, then dry again until completely crisp. Grind once more, pounding it ten thousand times. Mix with refined honey and form into pills.
Illustration: Puji Fang, Volume 264 / Section on Preparations and Dietary Remedies / The Immortal Method for Consuming Lingzhi to Lighten the Body and Achieve Flight
Volume 265: A Review of Sacred Pills
The Supreme One, through the Divine Cave of Insight, foresees good and ill; above, he discerns the immortals; below, he detects spirits and demons.
Purple Ganoderma, Acorus tatarinowii (chopped and dried), Fructus Lycii (peeled), Poria (wood removed), Haliotis shell, Cassia seeds (stir-fried), Honey‑sweetened Chrysanthemum flowers (two liang each), and fourteen crow’s eyes, air‑dried.
Grind the ingredients into a fine powder, mix with refined honey to form pills the size of tung‑tree seeds, and take twenty pills on an empty stomach with plain water.
Illustration: Puji Fang, Volume 265 / Section on Preparations for Ingestion / Elixir Medicines / Lan Sheng Dan