An electuary is a medicine consisting of a powder or other ingredient mixed with something sweet such as honey to make it more palatable."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. In German and Swiss cultures, electuary ( or ) 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. In the Indian

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tradition, electuaries are called '' Lēhya'' (लेह्य) (literally, "lickable").

Types

There are several different types of electuary: laxative electuary, joyful electuary, . The fermentation of mixed herbs in

honey Honey is a sweet and viscous substance made by several species of bees, the best-known of which are honey bees. Honey is made and stored to nourish bee colonies. Bees produce honey by gathering and then refining the sugary secretions of pl ...

and their effects on each other are said to increase the medical properties already present and to create new ones.

Famous electuary in medicine

* Chyawanprash * Diasenna * Mithridate * Faroug * Figra * SootiraThe Canon of Medicine in Arabic/vol.4.page.434

References

# Avicenna (1999). The Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn fī'l-ṭibb), vol. 5. translate by Abdurrahman Sharafkandi. Medical terminology Archaic words and phrases {{med-stub