Chinese alchemy
978-613-1-70585-4
6131705852
112
2010-07-08
39.00 €
eng
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Chinese alchemy is a part of the larger tradition of Taoism it has longer history than Taoism), centers on the tradition of body-spirit cultivation that developed through the Chinese understandings of medicine and the body. These Chinese traditions were developed into a system of energy practices. Chinese alchemy focuses mainly on the purification of one's spirit and body in the hopes of gaining immortality through the practice of Qigong and/or consumption and use of various concoctions known as alchemical medicines or elixirs, each of which having different purposes. Alchemical medicines were valued for two main reasons. First they granted transcendence and immortality and secondly they made it possible to summon benevolent spirits and expel demons.
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