Four thief vinegars (also called Marseilles vinegar, Marseilles medicine, vinegar prophylaxis, vinegar from four thieves, camphor acetic acid, vinaigre des quatre voleurs and acetum quator furum ) is a vinegar concoction (either from red wine, white wine, apple juice, or white flute) infused with herbs, spices or garlic that are believed to protect the user from outbreaks. The recipe for vinegar has almost the same variation as the legend.
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History
This particular vinegar composition is said to have been used during the medieval period when black deaths occurred to prevent the capture of this dreaded disease. Another type of vinegar herb has been used as a medicine since the time of Hippocrates.
The initial recipe for vinegar is asking for some ingredients to be added to the vinegar solution and allowed to steep for several days. The following vinegar recipe was hanged in the Museum of Paris in 1937, and is said to be the original copy of a prescription mounted on the walls of Marseilles during the epidemic epidemic:
Take three pints of strong white wine vinegar, add a handful of each wormwood, meadowsweet, wild marjoram and sage, fifty cloves, two ounces of campanula root, two ounces of angel, rosemary and horehound and three large sizes of champhor. Place the mixture in the container for fifteen days, strain and then express the bottle. Use it by rubbing it on hands, ears, and temples from time to time as it approaches the victim of the plague.
The plausible reason for not contracting outbreaks is that the herbal ingredients contain natural louse repellents, since ticks are the carrier of the bacillus epidemic, Yersinia pestis . Wormwood has properties similar to cedar as a mosquito repellent, as well as aromatics such as sage, clove, camphor, rosemary, campanula, etc. Meadowsweet, although known to contain salicylic acid, is primarily used to mask odors such as rotting bodies.
Another recipe called dry rosemary, dried sage flowers, dried lavender flowers, fresh rue, camphor dissolved in spirits, sliced ​​garlic, bruised cloves, and smoothed wine vinegar.
Modern versions of four vinegar thieves include various herbs that usually include sage, lavender, thyme, and rosemary, along with garlic. Additional herbs sometimes include rue, mint, and wormwood. It has become traditional to use four herbs in the recipe - one for every thief, although previous recipes often have a dozen or more herbs. It is still sold in Provence. In Italy a mixture called "seven washes of vinegar" is sold as smelly salt, although the ingredients appear to be the same as the four thieves.
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Mythology
The usual story is that a group of thieves during the European plague robbed the dead or the sick. When they are caught, they offer to exchange their secret recipe, which has allowed them to commit robbery without catching the disease, in exchange for leniency. Another version says that the thieves have been arrested before the plague and their punishment is to bury the victims of the plague; To survive this punishment, they create vinegar. The city where this happens is usually said to be Marseille or Toulouse, and the time period can be given as anywhere between the 14th and 18th century depending on the storyteller.
One interesting twist says that "four thieves' vinegar" is just a corruption of the original "Forthave vinegar", "a popular herb created by a fellow entrepreneur by the name of Richard Forthave.Other sources, the book AbregÃÆ'Â © de tout la mÃÆ'Â © decine practique (published 1741), seems to associate his creation with George Bates, even though his own Bates prescription published for anti-destructive vinegar in his Pharmacopoeia Bateana does not specifically use the name 'thief' or ' four thieves'.
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Source of the article : Wikipedia
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