Inside field of corpse medicine

— a little sweetener wouldn’t make a blind bit of difference.
A list of weird and but not very won­derful cannibalistic concoctions reveals treatments made of human organs, salves of human fat, and the ground-up remains of embalmed bodies.
First up is Mummy Powder, which was purported to be the ground up remains of the ancient kings of Egypt.
This was a popular medicine used from the 12th to the 17th century to cure everything from headaches to stomach ulcers, according to Compiled by 109.com, which compiled the list.
Of course, its popularity meant not every bit of Mummy Powder was made from regal remains — most was just ground down dead and desiccated bod­ies from the nearest graveyard.
Then there was the so-called Melli­fied Man treatment, a bizarre ancient Chinese recipe that appeared in the naturalist Li Shih-chen’s compendium, Chinese Materia Medica, published in 1597.
It involved using a male volunteer   aged 70 or 80, and bathing him and feeding him with nothing but honey until             he died, which was usually within a month.
He is then sealed in a coffin filled with honey and aged for 100 years.  — Daily Mail.