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Concoction is the process of preparing a medicine, food or other substance out of many ingredients, and also the result of such a process. Historically, the word referred to digestion , as conceived by Aristotle who theorized that this was the result of the heat of the body acting upon the material, causing it to mature and ripen.
A traditional Chinese herbal decoction (湯劑/汤剂) Turkish coffee beginning to boil. Decoction compares to brewing coffee through percolation.. Decoction is a method of extraction by boiling herbal or plant material (which may include stems, roots, bark and rhizomes) to dissolve the chemicals of the material.
Concoction is defined as the maturing process [τελέωσις] of a substance which initiates its own development by means of an inner heat, i.e. it is its own internal moving cause (379b18-25). The appropriate heat will "masters the indeterminacy" of the material elements, so as to give them form (380a1).
Bencao Gangmu calls the concoction miren (蜜人), translated as "honey person" or "mellified man".Miziren (蜜漬人 "honey-saturated person") is a modern synonym. The place it comes from is Tianfangguo, an old name for Arabia or the Middle East.
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The number one food with the most calories on this list—the Grinch's famous roast beast (a hearty roast beef slathered with a creamy horseradish sauce)—is a perfect example.
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Theriac or theriaca is a medical concoction originally labelled by the Greeks in the 1st century AD and widely adopted in the ancient world as far away as Persia, China and India via the trading links of the Silk Route. [2] It was an alexipharmic, or antidote for a variety of poisons and diseases.