Wan Ying Shen Huo Yao (萬應神火藥, lit. 'Ten thousand uses divine fire medicine')
Primary ingredient:
Saltpetre: 7 catties
Sulphur: 3 catty
Bamboo charcoal: 5.6 taels ~ 8 tales
Willow charcoal: 5.6 taels
Arsenic sulfide mineral: 3 catties
Realgar: 4 taels
Orpiment: 4 taels
Secondary ingredient:
Black arsenic: 4 taels
Rosin: 1 catty
Dried feces: 4 taels
Gingko leaf: 4 taels
Cinnabar: 4 taels
Ground purging croton powder: 4 taels
Common reed: trace amount
Ngai camphor: trace amount
Ngai camphor: trace amount
Shen Huo Yao (神火藥, lit. 'Divine fire medicine') for fire lance
Source: Bing Lu (《兵錄》)
Primary ingredient:
Saltpetre: 4 catties
Sulphur: 0.5 catty
Charcoal: 2 taels
Realgar: 4 taels
Secondary ingredient:
Needle dust: 4 taels
Borax: 1 tael
*All ingredients are ground into fine powder.
*All ingredients are ground into fine powder.
Du Huo Yao (毒火藥, lit. 'Poisonous fire medicine')
Du Huo Yao is a type of gunpowder designed to produce poison smoke that can cause dizziness or loss of consciousness, skin blistering, as well as wound infection, on top of setting things on fire.
Primary ingredient:
Saltpetre: 20 catties
Sulphur: 10 catties 4 maces
Willow charcoal: 10 catties 4 maces
Fir charcoal: 1 tael
Realgar: 3 catties
Orpiment: 3 catties
Secondary ingredient:
Black arsenic: 2 taels
Processed lacquer tree sap: 1 tael
Dried feces: 1 tael
Rosin: 4 taels
Blister beetle: 5 maces
Lie Huo Yao (烈火藥, lit. 'Raging fire medicine')
Lie Huo Yao is not a gunpowder per se, but a type of poisoning agent that can be spread as dust, burnt to create poison smoke, or dissolved to contaminate water.
Primary ingredient:
Arsenic sulfide mineral: 4 taels
Red arsenic: 2 taels
Secondary ingredient:
Borax: 0.5 catty
Ground purging croton powder: 1 tael
Blistering beetle: 1 tael
Centipede: 1 tael
Viper: 1 tael
Banded red snake: 1 tael
Scorpion tail: 1 tael
Spleenworts: 1 tael
Assorted poisonous herbs: 56 taels (but mixed with other ingredients with a
7:3 ratio)
* All ingredients are ground into fine powder.
Fei Huo Yao (飛火藥, lit. 'Flying fire medicine')
Fei Huo Yao is a type of gunpowder primarily designed for incendiary purposes, although it also mixes in tearing/blinding agents to discourage putting out fire.
Primary ingredient:
Saltpetre: 7 taels
Sulphur: 32 taels 6 maces
Bamboo charcoal: 5 taels 9 maces
Birch bark charcoal: 5 taels 6 maces
Willow charcoal: 5 taels 6 maces
Arsenic sulfide mineral: 4 taels
Secondary ingredient:
Common reed: 10 catties
Rosin: 3 catties
Processed black soybean seed: 10 taels
Gingko leaf (ash): 10 taels
Powder of black locust: 10 taels
Blister beetle: 10 taels
Pepper powder: unknown amount
Lan Huo Yao (爛火藥, lit. 'Rotten fire medicine')
Despite its name, Lan Huo Yao is not gunpowder but a type of poisoned ammunition.
Primary ingredient:
N/A
Secondary ingredient:
Iron bullet: 1 dou
Porcelain fragments: 1 sheng
Sal ammoniac: 1 catty
Silver rust: 1 catty
Feces-processed Chinese liquorice in liquid form: 2 sheng
Tiger poison: Sufficient amount to coat the bullets and porcelain fragments.
* Iron bullets and porcelain fragments are submerged in a mixture of liquid
Chinese liquorice for three days before being baked dry and stir-fried with
tung oil. Afterwards, they are coated with tiger poison.
Fa Huo Yao (法火藥, lit. 'Law fire medicine')
Fa Huo Yao is a type of less-lethal gunpowder that combines tearing agents, sneezing powder, and dizziness-inducing poison smoke.
Primary ingredient:
Saltpetre: 7 catties
Sulphur: 7 catties
Arsenic sulfide mineral: 1 tael
Orpiment: 4 taels
Bamboo charcoal: 4 taels
Birch charcoal: 4 taels
Willow charcoal: 4 taels
Secondary ingredient:
Lesser galangal ginger: 1 catty
Dried ginger: 2 catty
Gu-Sui-Bu: 1 catty
Sichuan pepper: 4 taels
Black pepper: 4 taels
Knotweed: 4 taels
Spotted lady's thumb: 4 taels
White arsenic: 4 taels
Yu Zao: 4 catties
Huo Zao: 4 catties
Calx: 4 taels
Semen: 4 taels
Rosin: 4 taels
Smoked plum: 2 catties
Ming Huo (明火, lit. 'Bright fire') for Huo Zhuan (火磚)
Source: Bing Lu (《兵錄》)
Primary ingredient:
Saltpetre: 10 taels
Sulphur: 6 taels
Willow charcoal: 4 taels
Realgar:16 taels
Secondary ingrediant:
Ceruse (lead dust): 16 taels
Camphor: 10 taels
*All ingredients are ground into fine powder and mixed with wine-cooked glutinous rice, before being cut into Chinese chess piece-sized disks.