Eventually, pharmacies started adding different herbs and chemicals to improve the flavor: ginger, birch bark, dandelion, sarsaparilla, fruit extracts, and all sorts of other things.
Then Altheda hastened to pick all those herbs she thought most hopeful, and mixed them in Sir Luckless's gourd of water, and poured the potion into Asha's mouth.
I love old books on history that teach me about daily life in the past, also books on nature herbs and wildcrafting, which I will link in the description.
In 1955, Bernard Brodie and Arvid Carlsson found that an herbal drug called reserpine seemed to make animals " lethargic, " " apathetic, " and " depressed."
He hastened towards the store cupboard and rummaged within it, pushing aside unicorn horns and tangles of dried herbs until he found, at the very back, a small card box on which had been scribbled the word 'Bezoars'.
The market women wear traditional straw hats and sell only things that a local might need: funerary herbs, asparagus stalks and huge rounds of cork from the local forests, handy for plugging up stone jars filled with olives.
Some of which have been pretty nutty, like drinking cocktails laced with lead, or wearing weasel testicle amulets or rabbit butts, or shoving herbs in places where herbs should not go.