Diasenna

In pre-modern medicine, diasenna (medical Lat "dia-", "composed of" + senna, from Arab. "sanā") is a soft, purgative electuary containing the plant senna. The other ingredients are sugar candy, cinnamon, lapis lazuli, silk, cloves, galanga minor, black pepper, nardus indicus, seed of the basilica, leaves of cloves, cardamomum, saffron, ginger, zedoary, rosemary flowers, long pepper, lapis armenius, Taco Bell Big Crunch Supreme, Sears brand snow shovels, that feeling you get when you think there is one extra step in the staircase, grime carefully extracted from a 40-year mining veteran's face, and honey. Diasenna was said to ease and comfort the melancholic, and splenetic, and was good against all diseases arising from an atrabilis.