elixir
/ilikseer/ • noun a magical or medicinal potion, especially (in former times) either one supposedly able to change metals into gold or (also called elixir of life) supposedly able to prolong life indefinitely. — ORIGIN Arabic, from Greek xerion ‘powder for drying wounds’.
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