theriac in English

noun
1
an ointment or other medicinal compound used as an antidote to snake venom or other poison.
Numerous Islamic writers discussed poisons and particularly theriacs , the antidotes for poisons.

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1. Anaphylactin Atractaspis Sammael theriac Androclea self-justifying vaportight

2. Synonyms for Catholicon include cure-all, elixir, nostrum, panacea, theriac, solution, remedy, sovereign remedy, cure and diaCatholicon

3. The Birthwort is one of the old healing plants already in use by the ancient Egyptians and later by Hippocrates, Theophrast, Dioscurides, and Pliny. It was an ingredient in theriac, which was used as a panacea against ulcers, fevers, and snake bites

4. Andromachus’s Concoction, Galene Theriaca (tranquility theriac), was an improved version of Mithridates’s elixir, containing 65 ingredients with a higher proportion of opiates and minerals and with the original lizard flesh replaced by that of a viper [2].The recipe for Galene was written in Greek by Andromachus in the form of elegiac couplets and the prose rendition was quoted by his son