In these sources we can find incredible information regarding the « created » elements and about their positive impact on the body. But it is important only to correct the data of ancient sources, considering what they call "gold" is usually what works well on the body.
But it should be understood that this is a tribute to piety before gold. Only an elixir made of gold, an expensive element, from the point of view of an ancient man, could be so effective. At the same time, this effective gold is apparently iron, since it is iron that is included in the metabolism of any living organism, while gold is not.
In ancient chinese Baopuzi this is written as:
…those gold and silver that can be created are natural in nature, and the extension of life can be gained by learning to create them.
…to see a result, gold must be "prepared". "Prepared" gold is better than natural gold.
…One, who will consume the mixture will not grow old and the old man can obtain youth once again and gain immortality.
In Wei Boyang's ancient Chinese "Zeng Tu zhi" it goes as such:
Once the gold powder hits
into the five internal organs,
the fog clears like rain clouds from the wind.
The gray hair turns black again;
The French/American/Romanian philosopher Mircea Eliane, professor of the Sorbonne University, said:
The aim of the ancient Chinese master who can "create" elements is clear. He needs "gold" not to enrich himself, but to create an elixir of immortality.
Again, we are reminded that this "gold", apparently, was understood as iron.
Mircea Eliane also provides information of François Vernier, who observed different groups of Indian ascetics:
“Exist others…quite strange people: they all wander from place to place; they ridicule everything that they meet, and never worry about anything. These people are full of secrets; they say, even know, how to create gold and prepare mercury, in fact, they do it so well, that one or two grains of the mixture, taken in the morning, keep the body in perfect health and strengthen the stomach to such an extent that it digests food perfectly and is always in perfect condition".
Marco Polo, described the yogis, which lived about 150-200 hundred years:
these people used a very strange drink: they mix a dose of silver and a dose of mercury and drink this mixture
The great physician Paracelsus, considered to be the founder of modern European science, used elements brought from somewhere else, created elements in his methods of curing the sick:
The task of chemistry is not at all to make gold and silver, but to prepare medicines. He claimed to recognize the possibility of "creating" elements.
In general, the persistent search of medieval scientists for a way to create elements , reflected primarily a desire for eternal youth. The elixir of youth. That was the goal that motivated them.
This goal motivated many rulers, philosophers, and military leaders of the past. Both in the East and in the West. Therefore, it was a tribute to common sense to take seriously the whole stratum of past perceptions of the possibilities of the young, created elements.
