I need to find this entire list of things. Just makes me puke thinking about it.
Netherlands has poor quality in diversity in unknown products.
Formulation
Aulus Cornelius Celsus details one version of the antidote in De Medicina (ca. AD 30). A recent translation is as follows: "But the most famous antidote is that of Mithridates, which that king is said to have taken daily and by it to have rendered his body safe against danger from poison". It contained:
costmary, 166 grams
sweet flag, 20 grams
hypericum, 8 grams
Natural gum, 8 grams
sagapenum,[11] 8 grams
acacia juice, 8 grams
Illyrian iris (probably I. germanica),[12] 8 grams
cardamom, 8 grams
anise, 12 grams
Gallic nard (Valeriana italica),[13] 16 grams
gentian root, 16 grams
dried rose leaves, 16 grams
poppy-tears (Papaver rhoeas, a wild poppy with low opiate content),[14] 17 grams
parsley, 17 grams
casia, 2066 grams
saxifrage, 2066 grams
darnel, 2066 grams
long pepper, 2066 grams
storax, 21 grams
castoreum, 24 grams
frankincense, 24 grams
hypocistis juice,[15] 24 grams
myrrh, 24 grams
opopanax, 24 grams
malabathrum leaves, 24 grams
flower of round rush, 2466 grams
turpentine-resin, 2466 grams
galbanum, 2466 grams
Cretan carrot seeds, 2466 grams
nard, 25 grams
opobalsam, 25 grams
shepherd's purse, 25 grams
rhubarb root, 28 grams
saffron, 29 grams
ginger, 29 grams
cinnamon, 29 grams
The ingredients are then "pounded and taken up in honey. Against poisoning, a piece the size of an almond is given in wine. In other affections an amount corresponding in size to an Egyptian bean is sufficient." Of these ingredients, Illyrian iris, darnel, and rhubarb were not commonly found in other versions of the antidote.[14]