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Potion Craft was created by niceplay games, a Russian independent developer founded by Mikhail Chuprakov. Chuprakov stated that the game was inspired by a "mix of mechanics" adapted from a line of alchemy-themed titles previously published by the developer, and the inclusion of a potion-making minigame in the 2018 role-playing video game Kingdom Come: Deliverance. [4]
A bottle of colored liquid labelled as a love potion A collection of vials labelled as potions. A potion is a liquid "that contains medicine, poison, or something that is supposed to have magic powers." [1] It derives from the Latin word potio which refers to a drink or the act of drinking. [2]
In another nearby village, she provides healing potions to the villagers there to allow recovery. The village chief shows them a hint on where the epidemic's source is coming from, leading to a foggy area where Kaoru uses some hi-tech glasses to help find their way, where they also discover red-eyed animals infected by the epidemic.
The elixir of life (Medieval Latin: elixir vitae), also known as elixir of immortality, is a potion that supposedly grants the drinker eternal life and/or eternal youth. This elixir was also said to cure all diseases. Alchemists in various ages and cultures sought the means of formulating the elixir.
Various concoctions were formerly created that were believed to be beneficial to one's health, especially for the heart (cor in Latin). [ 1 ] Some cordials, with their flecks of gold leaf and bright yellow hue, took their name from the "cordial virtues" of the rays of the sun, which some alchemists thought they contained.
While sources agree about the identity of four of the five ingredients of anointing oil, the identity of the fifth, kaneh bosem, has been a matter of debate.The Bible indicates that it was an aromatic cane or grass, which was imported from a distant land by way of the spice routes, and that a related plant grows in Israel (kaneh bosem is referenced as a cultivated plant in the Song of Songs 4:14.
Closeup of flowers. Prunella vulgaris grows 5–30 cm (2.0–11.8 in) high, [8] with creeping, self-rooting, tough, square, reddish stems branching at the leaf axes. [9]The leaves are lance-shaped, serrated and reddish at the tip, about 2.5 cm (0.98 in) long and 1.5 cm (0.59 in) broad, and growing in opposite pairs down the square stem. [9]
Lise Manniche, however, links the origins of theriac to the ancient Egyptian kyphi recipe, which was also used medicinally. [17] Greek physician Galen devoted a whole book Theriaké to theriac, documenting many notable theriacs such as Philonium. One of his patients, Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, took it on a regular basis.