Plural of concoction; mixtures created by combining various ingredients; also, invented stories or schemes.
Concoction (Latin concoctio) + -s plural suffix. From concocere (to cook together).
A grandmother's herbal 'concoctions' might seem like superstition, but modern pharmaceutical research keeps discovering that many folk remedies actually work—those mixed ingredients contained genuine active compounds.
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