Dr. Hurlbutt reports on Chinese alchemy

Posted on Sunday, December 7, 2008, at 1:43 pm, by Dr. Allardyce Hurlbutt.

By eating cinnamon and toads’ brains for seven years, the fourth-century Daoist alchemist Baopuzi reportedly was able not only to avoid aging and death, but also to walk on water.

Source: J. A. G. Roberts, China to Chinatown: Chinese Food in the West (London, 2002), 18.