It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Perhaps the bitter potions are really medicine that he is "applying" .

Some scholars interpret the bitter potion as an abortifacient inducing a miscarriage if the woman is pregnant with another man's child.

A bitter potion for the sins of the world, an answer to the beseeching arms.

At dawn he was given more of the bitter potion; by dusk of the second night, the fever had begun to subside.

She paid him frequent visits, always with the bitter potion, careful that he never lapse back into full consciousness and will power.

They would then deliver them as an offering to a healer, who would then give them a bitter potion to drink.

He is like one of the bitter potions the healers must mix with honey so that patients will swallow it.

She swallowed the bitter potion down without a grimace, and waited for it to take effect.

The scent of the potion arose, bitter and pungent, to her nose.