{{Short description|Type of medicine}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2022}} An '''electuary''' is a medicine consisting of a powder or other ingredient mixed with something sweet such as honey to make it more palatable.<ref name=sher>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/24633817 "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.</ref>

In German and Swiss cultures, electuary ({{langx|de|[[:wikt:Latwerge|Latwerge]]}} or {{lang|de|[[:wikt:Latwerg|Latwerg]]}}) 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.<ref>[https://www.eberle.ch/shop/latwergekocherei/?p=2 Latwerge kocherei] eberle.ch {{dead link|date=April 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|website=wiktionary.org |url=https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Latwerge|title=Latwerge|date=7 February 2022}}</ref>

In the Indian [[Ayurveda]] tradition, electuaries are called ''[[Lehyam|Lēhya]]'' (लेह्य)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.keralaayurveda.biz/blog/lehyam-herbal-elixirs-from-ayurveda | title=Lehyam: Herbal Elixirs from Ayurveda &#124; Kerala Ayurveda India }}</ref> (literally, "lickable").

==Types== There are several different types of electuary: laxative electuary, joyful electuary, {{em|etc}}. The fermentation of mixed [[herbs]] in [[honey]] and their effects on each other are said to increase the medical properties already present and to create new ones.<ref>The Canon of Medicine/vol.5</ref>

==Famous electuaries in medicine== * [[Chyawanprash]] * [[Diasenna]] * [[Mithridate]] * [[Faroug]] * Figra * Sootira<ref>The Canon of Medicine in Arabic/vol.4.page.434</ref>

==References== # Avicenna (1999). The Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn fī'l-ṭibb), vol. 5. translate by [[Abdurrahman Sharafkandi]]. {{Reflist}}

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