Universal elixir

Chemistry began to emerge as a science in the early seventeenth century. Its roots included practical chemistry (the mining and purification of metals, the creation of jewelry, pottery, and weaponry), medicinal chemistry (the use of herbs and various preparations made from them), and mystical beliefs (the search for the Philosopher s Stone or the Universal Elixir). 

Nonetheless, the few potent alchemical medicines that he did advocate reveal his unorthodox religious views. At the heart of Fludd s alchemy is the recipe for a red elixir which he described as being a catholic, that is, a universal medicine. It was the quintessence of both Nature and of the human soul, being permeated by the Holy Spirit of the resurrected Christ." It was said to be the alchemical equivalent of human blood, a tincture extracted from the red-oil of wheat. 

Lully, Raymond. "Philosophical and chymical experiments of the famous philosopher Raymund Lully. Wherein is contained, the right and true composition of both elixirs and universal medicine The admirable and perfect way of making the great Stone of the Philosophers, as it was truely taught in Paris, and sometimes practised in England by Raymond Lully in the time of K. Edward the Third. Now for the the [sicl] benefit of all lovers of art and... 

The universal medicine is an actual physical substance, produced by alchemical Sages from their own physical bodies. High adepts may entrust the elixir to students, but, of course, the students cannot reproduce it. In appearance, the universal medicine looks like red powder, often referred to as the red tincture, since it permeates all it touches. I had the privilege of guarding the tincture for a period of time. It was produced by a great alchemical Adept of the 20th century. 

Leathwood PD, Chauffard F, Heck E, Munoz-Box R. (1982). Aqueous extract of valerian root (Valeriana officinalis L.) improves sleep quality in man. Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 17(1) 65-71. Lebot V, Merlin M, Lindstrom L. (1997). Kava—the Pacific Elixir The Definitive Guide to Its Ethnobotany, History, and Chemistry. Rochester, VT Healing Arts Press. [Originally published New Haven Yale University Press, 1992.]... 

The discovery of insulin at the University of Toronto in 1921-22 was one of the most dramatic events in the history of the treatment of disease. Insulin s impact was so sensational because of the incredible effect it had on diabetic patients. Those who watched the first starved, sometimes comatose, diabetics receive insulin and return to life saw one of the genuine miracles of modem medicine. They were present at the closest approach to the resurrection of the body that our secular society can achieve, and at the discovery of what has become the elixir of life for millions of human beings around the world. 

Unfortunately, most early alchemists are unknown, considering that they were very secretive about their methods and left little in the way of written history. Their goals were mystical, economic, secret, unpublished, and unshared. Alchemic practices were also related to medicine as well as rehgion during some periods of time and in some countries. The alchemists main search was for the philosopher s stone that could unlock the secrets of transmutation—that is, the secrets of how to transform base metals and chemicals into different, more useful and valuable products, such as gold and silver. This also led to the futile search over many centuries for the elixir vitae that would be both the universal cure for all illnesses and the way to achieve immortality. 

If the ancients regarded honey as an elixir of life, the folk medicine7,8 of our time has proclaimed it to be a universal cure. Medical science has substantiated some of these claims, and has enumerated other medicinal uses of honey.9-28 The aforementioned treatise on the biology of the honeybee2 has a considerable portion of Volume 3 devoted to the therapeutic aspects of hive products, including honey. 

Thus one cannot, without error, confound this Humid Radical with Innate Fire. The latter is the inhabitant, the former the habitation, the dwelling. It is, in all the Mixts, the laboratory of Vulcan the hearth on which is preserved that immortal Fire, the prime-motor created from all the faculties of individuals the universal Balm, the most precious Elixir of Nature, the perfectly sublimated Mercury of Life, which Nature distributes by weight and measure to all the Mixts. He who will know how to extract this treasure from the heart, and from the hidden center of the productions of this lower world, to despoil it of its thick elementary shell, which conceals it from our eyes and to draw it from the dark prison in which it is enclosed and inactive, may boast of knowing how to make the most precious MEDICINE to relieve the human body. 

Abraham, Lyndy, A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery, Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 2001 Baigent, Michael and Leigh, Richard, The Elixir and the Stone, London Penguin Books, 1997... 

The Red Stone forms the basis of the Elixir or Universal Medicine for Man and Metals. It also has the power to transmute the lesser metals into gold, but it must become dedicated to that purpose by a further process called Inceration, which we will talk about later. After this process, it serves only for transmutations of metal and not for medicinal use. 

BALM — Universal Balm of Nature — is the Elixir perfected to the white or red stages, abounding in marvels and astonishing powers in the three kingdoms of Nature-vegetable, animal and mineral-for it educes their latent perfections, and is a most rare and little understood Medicine it is an infallible and sovereign remedy of all diseases and can even resuscitate the dead. 

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