ALCHEMY.

Alchemy.

Beware Alchemy of Mind,

They Turn To Gold All They Find.

The Vedas contain the details of alchemy that are found to have a connection between gold and mercury, which was so vital to alchemy everywhere, is first mentioned in the Artha-shastra. There were records of detailed

procedure to be followed for transmuting basic metals lead tin with mercury to

convert it to gold.

The old alchemy literature could not be scrutinized for evidence, because alchemy doctrine is claimed to have on more than one occasion come into the possession of one man but always again been lost with his death.

The recovery and uses of mercury, also known as quicksilver, have been described since ages. Alchemists used mercury to convert base metals, lead, tin, to gold as early as the 2nd century BC.  Metals contain certain quantity of electrons and protons and neutrons in different properties in different ratio in different metals.

Ancient alchemists believed that, under the correct astrological conditions, lead,tin could be "perfected" into gold. They tried to hasten this transformation by heating and refining the metal in a variety of chemical processes, most of which were kept secret. Alchemy was practiced in much of the ancient world, from India to China to Europe.

Alchemy was connected with an enterprise older than metallurgy--i.e., medicine. Belief in physical immortality seems to go back to the 8th century BC, and belief in the possibility of attaining it through drugs to the 4th century BC. The magical drug, namely the "elixir of life" elixir is the European word  is mentioned about that time, and that most potent elixir, "drinkable gold," which was a solution of this corrosion-resistant metal, as early as the 1st century BC. Ayurveda, contains two chapters with obscure recipes for elixirs, mostly based on mercury or arsenic compounds. It is a practical treatise on creating elixirs mercury, sulfur, and the salts of mercury and arsenic are prominent for the attainment of immortality.