Shennong Tripod

Cauldron of Herbs

Legendary cauldron of the herbal deity Shennong, said to refine and test the properties of plants.

The Tripod of Shennong is the legendary cauldron in which the Divine Farmer refined the medicines he discovered by tasting a hundred herbs. Boiling and testing plants within it, he turned poison into remedy and saved countless lives. Later tales of the immortals count it among the ten great artifacts of antiquity — the symbol of medicine’s very origin.