If you lived in the medieval world herbs and spices would be your ally. Assuming you could afford them, they would be in almost everything you cooked and even drank. After all, they added flavor and had great health benefits. Anything that went by the name herb was fresh and green. Spices, on the other hand, were imported luxuries brought from strange lands. They were dried, brown and wrapped in a mystical, exotic aura.
“We preserve our life with the death of others. In a dead thing insensate life remains which, when it is reunited with the stomachs of the living, regains sensitive and intellectual life.”As time went on, the original idea of momie got modernized. People decided a new mummy was just as good as an old one. Of course, there were still some rules to follow. Take the advice given infrom 1690. This book was written specifically as a drug handbook for merchants so you know it’s accurate.
This pissasphalt had long been renowned in the near east as a great remedy. When traded, it went under the name mummia because it had an uncanny resemblance to the material used in the Egyptian mummification process.After a while, people must have got tired looking for pissasphalt and found it much easier to just swipe the material from their locally grown mummies.