O panacei, lijeku za sve bolesti i besmortnost

The panacea /pænəˈsiːə/, named after the Greek goddess of universal remedy Panacea, is any supposed
remedy that is claimed to cure all diseases and prolong life indefinitely. It was in the past sought by
alchemists as a connection to the elixir of life and the philosopher's stone, a mythical substance which
would enable the transmutation of common metals into gold.

The Cahuilla people of the Colorado Desert region of California used the red sap of the elephant tree
(Bursera microphylla) as a panacea.

The Latin genus name of ginseng is Panax, (or "panacea") reflecting Linnean understanding that ginseng
was widely used in traditional Chinese medicine as a cure-all.

Nepente

Then Helen, daughter of Zeus, took other counsel.

Straightway she cast into the wine of which they were drinking a drug

to quiet all pain and strife, and bring forgetfulness of every ill.

Nepenthes pharmakon

Borage, also known as a starflower, is an annual herb in the flowering plant family Boraginaceae. It is
native to the Mediterranean region and has naturalized in many other locales.[2] It grows satisfactorily
in gardens in the UK climate, remaining in the garden from year to year by self-seeding. The leaves are
edible and the plant is grown in gardens for that purpose in some parts of Europe. The plant is also
commercially cultivated for borage seed oil extracted from its seeds. The plant contains pyrrolizidine
alkaloids, some of which are hepatotoxic, mutagenic and carcinogenic (see below under
Phytochemistry).

Francis Bacon thought that borage had "an excellent spirit to repress the fuliginous vapour of dusky
melancholie." John Gerard's Herball mentions an old verse concerning the plant: "Ego Borago, Gaudia
semper ago (I, Borage, bring always joys)". He states that "Those of our time do use the flowers in salads
to exhilerate and make the mind glad. There be also many things made of these used everywhere for
the comfort of the heart, for the driving away of sorrow and increasing the joy of the mind. The leaves
and flowers of Borage put into wine make men and women glad and merry and drive away all sadness,
dullness and melancholy, as Dioscorides and Pliny affirm. Syrup made of the flowers of Borage comfort
the heart, purge melancholy and quiet the frantic and lunatic person. The leaves eaten raw engender
good blood, especially in those that have been lately sick."