There are shops in image-obsessed Beverly Hills packed with pills and potions to extend life.
In medieval times men were said to push herbs, mushrooms and other purportedly aphrodisiacal potions on women.
Admittedly, the range of new potions is bewildering, but there is little evidence that they do much harm.
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For example, friends can offer health potions or special weapons when a player needs them most during actual gameplay.
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But homeopaths make a lot of money selling homeopathic potions, and through clever marketing they keep themselves in business.
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Lastly, items can be found such as magic, healing potions and other power-ups.
It does away with the pestilent dragon of the original legend, as well as the love potions of Wagner's opera.
However, the regulator of all these pills and potions says the aim is to protect consumers, not to pick off small suppliers.
They have guns and potions, fruit-launching rocket launchers, and crazy elemental powers.
The primate's tears have been used as an ingredient in love potions.
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At the latest meeting in London, there was talk of new pills and potions, but no sign of new management talent being groomed.
The potions and devices on offer in Wangfujing will not help.
And thanks to the smart button-mapping, I find the use of skills and potions, etc. just as simple (if not more so) than using a keyboard.
Dr. Bronner's accuses these companies, which include Kiss My Face, Stella McCartney America, Estee Lauder and Hain Celestial Group , of using petroleum-based ingredients in their potions.
The trick is to not get so involved in the fight that you lose track of your health when there are 15 healing potions in your inventory.
And while I have been able to sort of tame my hair with countless bottles of Kerastase potions, there are days when I still crave for that leonine European mane.
In India and elsewhere, consumers once resigned to choking down bits of bark or fistfuls of leaves can now take traditional medicine in more palatable forms - pills, potions and powders.
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Isn't this the same man who made Snapple the official drink of New York, giving its sucrose-laden potions a monopoly in high school vending machines over the objections of the health-conscious?
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Energy regenerates over time, but for players looking for an extended gaming session or to get off to a head start, energy replenishment potions can be purchased in bulk from the cash shop.
There are ways to get refills without waiting or paying, as players receive full energy upon a level up and energy potions can be acquired in a variety of other ways within the confines of the game.
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Your avatar has a race (human, elf, orc etc), a class (warrior, priest, wizard, etc), a more or less extensive inventory of all sorts of stuff (weapons, armor, potions, fishing rods, etc), a level and, in effect, a bank account.
If we are to have medicines tailored to our own versions of specific diseases, rather than the one-size-fits-all type of potions and pills with which we're treated today, then each of us will need a genome scan in our medical files.
Part of the confusion about sangomas and inyanga stems from the many quack healers operating throughout the country, who advertise cures for all manner of diseases, potions to increase penis size, ensure success in love or business or sometimes to ensure your enemy's downfall.
Between missions you can use the cash gained from your stolen loot to purchase merchandise no well-heeled thief should be without-such as lockpicks, flash mines, invisibility potions, and scouting orbs, which act like miniature stationary cameras and can be used for a little surreptitious spying until retrieved.
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