Instead, as anyone with a bit of common sense and travelling experience knows, it's humanity's favorite sleep-related cure-alls: caffeine and naps.
But modern would-be immortals know that old-fashioned cure-alls, like the ground mummy dust to which hopeful aristocrats turned in medieval times, were only so much quackery.
Its founding purpose - to find a cure - may never have been achieved.
Many patients - and some doctors - regard antibiotics as cure-alls.
But this is not necessarily a negative trend, because new treatments - although not providing a cure - are allowing those with the virus to live much longer before contracting full-blown Aids.
As the song developed, it picked up a mix of electronic drums and new-wave synths almost Cure-like in spots.
The idea was a cold-turkey cure for endemic balance-of-payments problems, turning economic management on its head by floating sterling and letting the market dictate the exchange rate.
Banks have been reluctant to respond, but yet there have been enough mortgages modified to give a pretty clear picture that it is not a long-term cure, only a short-term band-aid.
Wales international Ledley needs an operation - and potentially three months on the sidelines - to cure a hip problem while Championship top-scorer Peter Whittingham is carrying a thigh injury.
Yet the supermajority may not prove to be the cure-all that many Democrats hope.
The sweetener is central to a battle in Asia to find the next cure-all gum.
Although the plan has forestalled Armageddon in the American housing market, it is no cure-all.
In concept, at least, the cure--accepting a little imperfection, a few weeds, some patches of brown--is simple.
To avoid being tagged a "net utopian, " Mr. Johnson warns that the Internet is not a cure-all.
The regulators have been hounding McClung about cure-all claims he made (until recently) in infomercials for Super Blue Stuff.
Reverse payment settlement opponents had placed a great deal of emphasis on the Cipro case as a cure-all solution.
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Washington has promoted low interest rates as a housing cure-all, while Wall Street cowers in a lawsuit-weary fetal position.
Unfortunately the cure--a severe contraction of its operations--looks as bad as the disease.
At a small business discussion I raised my usual cure-all for what ails India, truly letting Wal-mart into the country.
Until the public banks lose political support, new rules from Basel and Brussels will only half-cure the distortions in the German market.
But this would not be a cure-all, even assuming that the Germans are now willing to consider an option they previously rejected.
The Bottom Line: No one can realistically provide cure-alls for the emotional stresses and the traumas that life inevitably inflicts upon us.
It is disingenuous to suggest some sort of French fry prohibition on kids' menus will be the cure-all to children's weight problems.
Previous QE may not have been a cure-all, but it has helped.
Yes, that floating fiat money is surely some kind of cure-all.
There was always the risk that once the Barnes embraced the idea of relocation as a cure-all, other institutions would resort to the same thing.
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Cure-all fruit drinks are all the rage in the world of multilevel marketing, where distributors often sign up with the idea that they will get rich quick.
"Green tea is the cure-all one week, and the next the data isn't good, " says nutritionist Linda Chio, who works at the New York University Clinical Cancer Center.
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