concoction

The preparing of a medicine, food or other substance out of many ingredients.

Salt is a very favoured ingredient of spell-binding concoctions.

Deer Sperm: In ancient times, this was used as an ingredient on aphrodisiac concoctions. An example of organotherapy.

A mixture prepared in such a way.

Something made up, an invention.

Digestion (of food etc.).

[Sorrow] hinders concoction, refrigerates the heart, takes away stomach, colour, and sleep; thickens the blood […]

The act of digesting in the mind; rumination.

At laſt, the Phyſicians, after a long and ſtormie voyage, ſee land; They haue ſo good ſignes of the concoction of the diſeaſe, as that they may ſafely proceed to purge.