concoction

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

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

At last , the physicians after a long and stormy voyage , see land ; they have so good signs of the concoction of the disease , as that they may safely proceed to purge .

There are also divers other great alterations of matter and bodies , besides those that tend to concoction and maturation