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This is an excerpt from The Prince of Transylvania's Court Cookbook
(Hungary, 16th c.)
The original source can be found at MedievalCookery.com

Water for chest pains. Grab half a handful of hyssop, sage, lungwort, sixteen figs, eight dates, two lots of currants, one lot of sweet roots, one lot of carob, two lots of raw beer, a quarter lot of aniseed, two lots of wolf's bane, one lot of sliced ginger, a quarter lot of cinnamon, pour some water or wine to it, boil a third of it, then pass through a strainer it, serve this when hot in mornings or evenings.