Tai Chi Chüan: Harmonizing Taoist Belief and Practice - Jeaneane D. Fowler, Shifu Keith Ewers ALSO GIVES THIS REVERTED ELIXIR SECRET:
The triagram Li is fire and predominantly yang, but the important middle line is yin, and so the Dragon is female. It is the yin essence in the yang, water in fire, the female in the male, the moon in the sun. It is referred to as Green Dragon....It is water that rises, being heated, and is therefore fiery but yielding, rising to Heaven. The triagram K'an/Kan is Water and predominantly yin and female. But the middle line is yang and alchemically it is the yang in the yin, the White Tiger, ....its function is to descend to Earth when fire reacts with it. It is the fire in the water.
Four Hundred Word Chin Tan of Chang Po-Tuan - jstor
Now we move into this other work - that I have not seen discussed elsewhere.
So Red Dragon is the liver qi that goes out the eyes. Green Dragon is the first reversal - the liver qi, through meditation, as Mercury, goes down - it is within the Vermillion or Red Sand (blood). But the Po Soul, has to "grab onto" this Hun soul - that normally disperses with the yang fire - the shen going out the eyes.
And so True Mercury is primarily "yin qi" and so - this is the "innate Nature" of chapter 1 of the Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality book. In other words - unless the heart is pure - then True Earth has to "fix" the True Lead (sublimate it) using Quick Fire - otherwise True Mercury can not "fix" True Lead. But once True Earth "fixes" True Lead - then it is bound to True Mercury - as the undivided yin-yang elixir or Nei Dan.
So True Mercury is the Green Dragon but on its own - without True Earth - (Quick Fire breathing) - then the Mercury easily disperses and separates from the True Lead. But with True Earth - then the Green Dragon as "water in the fire" then as a Double REversal, now is water that rises up the spine (with True Lead or fire in it).
So True Lead detains True Mercury, thereby creating the elixir of undivided yin-yang (yuan qi), using True Earth as the fixer or mediator (Yi, intention). So then with the double reversal, again the water now "rises" (since it detains the yin qi as the water in the fire of the shen).
Dragon signifies True Mercury.
Tiger signifies True Lead.
But notice the author/translator is also confused:
Now - I came across this SAME confusion in the Ph.D. thesis I have referenced. Why? Because the "black tiger" as mercury, yin - is before sublimation. The blood coagulates in the lower body (female internal). The dragon as yang is the male dragon is the shen as the upper body (external). Alchemically everything is reversed. The male "appears" to be yang externally but is yin internally and the female appears to be yin externally but is yang internally.
So here we have, once again, confirmation of the double reversal. Changing from black to red. So the Black Tiger changes to Red Dragon once again in the double reversal.
So this Double Reversal - where did we see it before?
http://elixirfield.blogspot.com/2018/05/white-tiger-of-heart-take-filled-heart.html
1615 alchemy text.“Take the filled heart inside Kan to transform the yin in the belly of the Li Palace.”
O.K. so now....
And so the silver (mercury) is in the red (fire) but the Green Dragon turns the mercury down to the Black (lead water) which using Yellow (soil) then changes to white (with the silver) and then returns back to the Red.... and then with the mercury "detained" and turned into "substance" - then slowly the impure black (lead) is removed - so that the yellow turns to Gold.
So you end up with soil as Gold - yuan qi. Actually Chin Tan means Gold-Redness. (so Lead turned to Gold via the secret mercury in the vermillion sand red).
fascinating.
O.K. so more on this double reversal - google preview.
True Lead originates from fire and is the ancestor of jing (ching) as water....True Mercury likes to fly but abides in the blood....semen produces the white bones, blood the red flesh....
The ancestor of True Mercury is Red Dragon.
Fiery Lead (True Yang Lead) is the Sun.
True Yin Mercury is the moon. (the moon moves quickly).
Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5: Chemistry and Chemical ...
https://epdf.tips/science-and-civilisation-in-china-volume-5-chemistry-and-chemical-tech...And finally the caption to the whole says: 'Diagram of the Collection of True Lead and Mercury.' The symbolism here is all of intercourse and union, yet the ...
True Mercury is also called semen....
So again with double reversal - the opposites interact.
Hence the confusion.
Mantak Chia states the Green Dragon as True Mercury changes into the black tiger as True Lead
But I don't think this quite CAPTURES the secret of the Double reversal - because the black tiger has to change into the white tiger to change into the True Lead - via the brain (heaven)....
So now I'm word searching Needham's 600 page book (pdf) that goes into "physiological alchemy."
oK so we can summarize the situation as thus:
Mercury normally is light and flies away but True Mercury also goes up - but goes up the back (not the front).
Lead normally is heavy and is lost going down. But True Lead also goes down - but down the front (not down from the back, governing channel - kidney).
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