Secret Elixir

One of the most mysterious artifacts of the last century is a bottle with a divine preparation - an elixir. It is the preparation Rudolph Hess had with him when he was captured. An elixir from a Tibetan Buddhist lamasery brought by the Swedish explorer Sven Hedin. Hess passed away at 93 in prison. 

Tibetan "perfumes" are almost unknown in the West like their flora, which is very rich in potent ingredients.  The medical preparation contains the clue to the last ingredient needed to make a very very very ancient perfume, because texts and their translations always need a botanic + chemical proof. All these elixirs were compositions of wild plants which still retained their true force, unlike their modern versions used in perfumes which are hybrids. They lost some molecules since their original use in the garden of Ramses.

The elixir from Tibet is, among other things, a preparation with a certain quelque chose - what a man, an animal or a plant needs at high altitude. Their potential is of course cosmetics, but also for everything that goes up in the sky - NASA. The same reason why some Swiss botanic extract are used in medicine. 

In 1941 the chemical analysis was not so powerful as today and .... who would pay attention to a bottle and some "medicines" brought by a German born and raised in Alexandria (Egypt)? For someone with a nose, the bottle rarely keeps the secret and the potential.
Sven Hedin had an extensive collection of Asian plants and antiquities. He entered the forbidden city of Lhasa in 1906.

Tibetexpedition, Lhasa, 1938

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