October is the month for making potions...

The month of harvest and falling leaves is the ideal time to make 

sympathetic and magical potions for the treatment of wounds; these 

as tradition dictates are applied to the weapon that makes the wound 

instead of the wound itself.

"Take the moss on the skull of a strangled man two ounces; of the

 mummia of man's blood an ounce and a half; of earthworms

 washed in wine or water an ounce and a half; of the hemetitis two 

ounces; of the fat of a boar and a boar pig, two drams each; oil of 

turpentine two drams. Pound them and keep them in a narrow pot 

and make this cure when the sun is in Libra. Dip into the ointment 

the iron or wood of the weapon, or if the weapon cannot be had a

 sallow stick made wet with blood in opening the wound. And let the

 patient wash his wound in the morning with his own urine and 

bind it with a clean cloth, always wiping away the matter."

Excerpt from the Fairfax Household Book, 17th/18th century.