Honey man - a human corpse, candied in honey, which was used as a medicine

In the XII century on the big Arabian bazaars sometimes you can find a product known as "honey man" who was a human corpse soaked in honey. His mouth was used for medical purposes. Cooking candied person required tremendous efforts on the part of pastry, and from the ingredients. So, what was the recipe for a miraculous drug?

"In Arabia, there are men, aged 70 to 80 years old who want to give his body to save the others. Such a person does not eat food, he only drank honey and bathed in honey. A month later, it allocates only honey (urine and feces are made from honey) and soon dies. His assistant, puts it in a stone coffin filled with honey, in which he soaked. On the coffin write the month and year of death. A hundred years later the coffin open. Candied body is used to treat broken limbs and injuries. When taking a small amount into the pain immediately stopped.

From the handbook "The drugs in Chinese medicine" (1597).

Source: ibigdan.livejournal.com

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