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Native Americans used American ginseng in treatment of fevers, gastrointestinal disorders, colic, dysentery and to relieve nausea, vomiting and headache. Certain North American tribes used ginseng for the preparation of love potions.
Sweet flag was used for the preparation of love potions in the past due to widespread belief that is has aphrodisiac properties.
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Ancient Rome had professional magicians for hire. For a fee, they would create love potions, curse rivals, and prepare magically based legal defenses in the law courts.
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Old Romans and Greeks were drinking wine made of violas. They also used violas as food and remedy. Since violas were symbol or fertility and love in the ancient Greece, they were often used in the production of love potions.
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Eric Clapton used a voodoo love potion to win the heart of George Harrison's wife. That potion was given to him by Dr. John.
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The Clovers, a doo-wop group that recorded the original "Love Potion #9", also recorded a song called "The Rotten Cocksucker's Ball".
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In 1751, Mary Blandy poisoned her father with arsenic. She claimed to believe the arsenic was a love potion
