Từ điển dược liệu luyện đan: tập hợp hơn 150 dược thạch và tên ẩn (隐名), mô phỏng thể lệ Nhĩ Nhã. Công cụ tra cứu then chốt cho ngoại đan và lịch sử hóa dược.
Ứng dụng: Giải mã tên ẩn dược liệu ngoại đan; tra cứu thuật ngữ luyện đan.
唐元和丙戌（806）西蜀梅彪撰，外丹藥物隱名詞典，仿《爾雅》六篇一卷。因丹經用藥皆隱名（「畫餅夢桃」），遂集六家口訣、眾石異名。卷上釋玄黃花、鉛精（金公、河車、白虎）、水銀（姹女、流珠、青龍）、丹砂（日精、朱鳥）、雄雌黃、曾青等金石及草木、鼎釜、華池（酢）隱號。卷下：有法可營造丹名（太一小還丹、紫遊丹等）；丹之別名；經傳歌訣書目（《參同契》《石壁記》等）；有法藥物造法；有名無法之大仙丹（黃帝九鼎丹、大還丹等，非塵俗可知）。是解讀唐宋外丹隱語的基礎工具書。
⚡ Ứng dụng: 讀外丹經、核對隱名實藥時檢索；勿盲目照方服金石。現代亦用於道教化學史與本草隱名研究。
🔗 Liên quan: 丹方鑑源；黃帝九鼎神丹經訣；太清石壁記
Shi Yao Er Ya proves that alchemical failure often comes from nominal chaos: the same mineral has many names, and misidentification breaks causal chains of formula. Lexicographic standardization is therefore a safety and efficacy logic, not scholastic pedantry.
1) When reading classical 丹方, cross-check every mineral alias against Shi Yao Er Ya before any modern analogue experiment (or treat as historical only if toxic). 2) Build a personal glossary linking traditional names → modern mineral IDs → toxicity class. 3) Apply the same logic to BaZi ‘herbal/mineral cures’: refuse unnamed ‘magic sand’ remedies. 4) In textual study, treat variant drug names as a source of lineage disagreement, not deeper mysticism. 5) Prefer formulas whose ingredients survive synonym collapse to a consistent set.
Unlike 丹方鑑源 (provenance of recipes) or 大丹記 (process narrative), this is a philological-instrumental proof: language hygiene as alchemical method. It differs from Bencao materia medica by focusing on elixir stones and their secret names; the why is the cryptonymic culture of waidan transmission.