Cut the viper into pieces, boil them, dehydrate them and form them into “troshiks”, a kind of ball, which you will dry in the sun. Do the same with silla (bulb plant) and hedichron (a mixture of about twenty ingredients). Season your troshes with various roots, herbs, fruits, pepper, spices, salts, gums, and substances such as castorum (from the beaver gland), Jewish bitum, or vitriol, not forgetting a heavy dose of opium.
Mix the obtained powder with turpentine, wine and honey. Then we leave it in the sun and leave it to ferment for several months, stirring it regularly. You now possess the precious theriac, a drug that has ruled human medicine for over 2,000 years.
You will store it in magnificent clay or porcelain pots and wait several months, even years, before using it; it is believed to be at its peak in about thirty years. Honey is great…
Source: Le Figaro
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