The word "potion" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a magical drink or medicine with special properties. For example, "The wizard mixed a powerful potion to cure the princess of her illness."
Messenger, in her book, claims that "often today, we are being bombarded with messages from vested interests to fear all diseases in order for someone to sell some potion or vaccine, when, in fact, history shows that in industrialised countries, these diseases are quite benign and, according to natural health sources, beneficial to the body".
'It's he! It's he!' cried some voices together; 'let's give him his due!' " His "due", of course, was his potion of dawamesk.
I send the recipe for the yellow potion I saw being sprayed in Bajo Lempa to Professor Andrew Watterson of the University of Stirling – an authority on agrochemicals and health.
On it, two workers mix a livid-yellow potion in huge plastic barrels.
Mr Litvinenko died from radiation poisoning after, it would seem, being slipped a potion containing an isotope of polonium.
Such places need swift and special measures, he said, to get locals into condoms.Contrast that with the approach taken by president of Gambia, an army coupster called Yahya Jammeh, who claims to be curing AIDS with a herbal potion and a couple of bananas.Back to top >>MondayI HAVE come to Manipur, one of India's most remote and unruly quarters, mainly because I could.
When a wine or mash is heated in an alembic, its araq collects inside the still's long spout before dripping out as "raised" alcohol.In Mongolia arak refers to a stiff drink distilled from fermented mare's milk, and has done since the 14th century, as is known from a Chinese treatise that describes the arrival in the Middle Kingdom of this fiery new potion.
The alchemists of old sought to transmute base metals into gold and to invent a potion that would confer immortality.
Except that the Serbs have no magic potion.
But why all the fuss?The opera traces the story of two lovers, Tristan and Isolde (painted above by August Spiess in 1881), who fall madly in love after drinking a potion.
THREE countries and one American state permit assisted suicide (where the lethal potion, prescribed by a doctor, is administered by the patient) or voluntary euthanasia (where a doctor usually administers the lethal dose).Oregon permits only assisted suicide the prescribing doctor cannot even be there when the patient takes the lethal potion, usually barbiturates.
