theriaca in English
noun
molasses; paste used to treat snake bites
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1. 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