wàidān
external alchemy
外丹 wàidān
- external alchemy
- Daoist practice of using furnaces and crucibles to refine minerals such as lead and mercury into elixirs of immortality
- elixir of immortality
- Pill or elixir produced through the practice of external alchemy, such as a golden pill 金丹 jīndān
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Antonym
- 内丹 nèidān