Wikipedia's article on Chinese alchemical elixir poisoning, consulted 2026-08-12.
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Reliability tier 3: a continuously community-edited tertiary reference with no formal peer review process, suitable for citable, checkable factual claims but not treated as authoritative on genuinely contested points. NotesWikipedia's dedicated article on Chinese alchemical elixir poisoning, consulted 2026-08-12, checked in preference to the general Chinese alchemy article, which names no individual emperor. Useful here for the named Tang dynasty emperors documented to have died from elixir poisoning and for Qin Shi Huang's and the Yongzheng Emperor's deaths as the first and last cases the historical record names this way. Used only for the historical record of who died and when; no proportion, ingredient or procedure is drawn from it.
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PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_alchemical_elixir_poisoning
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