Terms such as "healing potion" or "elixir" are today almost exclusively associated with games, especially role-playing or adventure games, but that wasn't always so.
The terminology may have changed and modernized, but we have, even today, a variety of potions in our daily lives. For the most part we are simply oblivious to their specialty, their "magical power". In case you are wondering, the term "magic" does fit, because these are potent little things, these potions. And, just because they are common, makes them no less extra-ordinary. They are worthy of the status they have, in fact, read on to find out why exactly these potions are as common as they are.
