A magical or medicinal drink, especially one mixed together with special ingredients, often used in fantasy stories.
From Latin 'potio' meaning drink or draught. Originally a neutral word for any beverage, but became associated with magic and alchemy during the medieval period when mysterious brews were central to alchemical practice.
The shift from 'any drink' to 'magical drink' shows how medieval people understood chemistry—if you mixed mysterious ingredients and something happened, it seemed like magic. Science was once indistinguishable from alchemy.
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