A quick annotation of Tuesday's translation:
1: 钟曰“前贤往圣多以肺液入下田而曰金液还丹,心液入下田而曰玉液 还丹。此 论非不妙矣,然而未尽玄机。盖夫肺生 肾,以金生水,金入水中,何得 谓之 还丹? 肾克心,以水克火,水入火中,何得 谓之 还丹?
“Zhong said: past experts and future sages, many think the lung fluid enters the lower field and this is called golden fluid changing elixir, the heart fluid enters the middle field and this is called jade fluid changing elixir. This is not the miracle, it has not exhausted the mysterious system. The lung generates the kidneys, metal generates water, metal enters the water center, how can this be called changing elixir? The kidneys control the heart, water controls fire, water enters fire's center, how can this be called changing elixir?”
Note: this part is not so important, it just refutes some basic ideas about the five organs being the locus of the generation of golden elixir through their normal generation and control process.
2: 金液乃肺液也,肺液 为胎胞,含 龙虎,保送在黄庭之中。大 药将成,抽之肘后, 飞起其肺液以入上 宫,而下 还中丹。
“The golden fluid is lung fluid, lung fluid becomes the placenta, containing dragon and tiger, protecting and delivering in the center of the yellow court. The great medicine is directed and achieved, withdrawing behind the back, flying up the lung fluid enters the upper palace, then descends to the middle Dantian.”
Notes:
A: Lung Fluid in this instance refers to the Qi which descends to the Yellow Court and forms the heavenly fetus, it does not refer to ordinary lung fluid, but instead a type of mature alchemical energy.
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