Medicine:Electuary
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Short description: Type of medicine
An electuary is a medicine consisting of a powder or other ingredient mixed with something sweet such as honey to make it more palatable.[1]
In German and Swiss cultures, electuary (German: Latwerge or Latwerg) is also more generally a thickened juice and honey preparation with a thick, viscous consistency that is used in for culinary purposes, such as a (bread) spread or as a sauce ingredient.[2][3]
In the Indian Ayurveda tradition, electuaries are call lehya[4] (literally, "lickable").
Types
Electuary have many different types. laxative electuary, joyful electuary etc. Fermentation of mixed herbs in honey and their effect on each other, It increases properties and creates new properties.[5]
Famous electuary in medicine
- Chyawanprash
- Mithridate
- Faroug
- philosophers
- Figra
- Sootira[6]
References
- Avicenna (1999). The Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn fī'l-ṭibb), vol. 5. translate by Abdurrahman Sharafkandi.
- ↑ "The Doctor and the Buccaneer: Sir Hans Sloane's Case History of Sir Henry Morgan, Jamaica, 1688" by Richard B. Sheridan, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Vol. 41, No. 1 (January 1986), pp. 76-87.
- ↑ https://www.eberle.ch/shop/latwergekocherei/?p=2
- ↑ "Latwerge". 7 February 2022. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Latwerge.
- ↑ "Lehyam: Herbal Elixirs from Ayurveda | Kerala Ayurveda India". https://www.keralaayurveda.biz/blog/lehyam-herbal-elixirs-from-ayurveda.
- ↑ The Canon of Medicine/vol.5
- ↑ The Canon of Medicine in Arabic/vol.4.page.434
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