Alexicacon

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Alexicacon: A preservative against, or remedy for, evil; a panacea sought in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The word is from Greek alexein, to keep off, and kakon, evil. A dose against poison was called an alexipharmic; to ward off contagion was an alexiteric or alexitery.
--Joseph Shipley's Dictionary of Early English, 1955

I could use an alexipharmic, or at least an infusion of seXieleXie.
 
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