Electuary

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.<ref name=sher>"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.</ref>

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.<ref>Latwerge kocherei eberle.ch </ref><ref>

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In the Indian Ayurveda tradition, electuaries are call lehya<ref>

Lehyam: Herbal Elixirs from Ayurveda | Kerala Ayurveda India(link). {{{website}}}.

</ref> (literally, "lickable").

Types

There are many different types of electuary: laxative electuary, joyful electuary etc. The fermentation of mixed herbs in honey and their effects on each other, increases medical properties already present and creates new ones.<ref>The Canon of Medicine/vol.5</ref>

Famous electuary in medicine

• Chyawanprash
• Diasenna
• Mithridate
• Faroug
• Figra
• Sootira<ref>The Canon of Medicine in Arabic/vol.4.page.434</ref>

References

1. Avicenna (1999). The Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn fī'l-ṭibb), vol. 5. translate by Abdurrahman Sharafkandi.

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