Tradition:

Western

Source / Author:

Mithridate

Preparation:

Cut the Walnuts and Figs small, then beat well together with the Rue and Salt. When well incorporated, mix with Honey to form an Electuary.

Function:

Resists Poison

Use:

Used to protect against all Poison and Venom

Dose:

As much as a walnut each morning

Comment:

“This composition or Medicine is so sure and approved, that men have used the same everywhere for all manner of Plagues three hundred years before the birth of Christ: and the same was found out by King Mithridates that waged war with the Romans”. (Wirtzung, 1598)
    
Schroder said “It is a great Antidote against all Poison”.

Culpeper said “Oneus Pompeius found in the Treasury of Mithridates King of Pontus, when he was overthrown, a Scroll of his own Handwriting, containing a Medicine against any Poison and Infection, which is this: Take two dry Walnuts, and as many good Figs, and twenty Leaves of Rue bruised and beaten together with two or three Corns of Salt, and twenty Juniper Berries, which taken every morning fasting, preserves from danger of Poison or Infection, that day it is taken”.

Cautions:

None noted

Modifications:

1. Some added 1⁄2 ounce Juniper berries.
2. Some also added Almonds.

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