Recipes range from spicy pine-nut-and-chili cakes to ice cream and fruit concoctions. Popular baits include canned corn and homemade doughball concoctions in the USA. In more recent years, also, various herbal concoctions have been marketed as "nutritional supplements". These concoctions were the ancestors of the several nostrums. Chinese-style tea houses offer dozens of varieties of hot and cold tea concoctions. He adulterated his concoctions with sodium sulfate, Glauber's salt, a poison in large doses. The Ancient Romans called their fried concoctions "alia dulcia", Latin for "other sweets". The average Brazilian drinks 12-24 of these concoctions per day. They wore cosmetics and made different concoctions for their skin. The term has also been used for similar less-than-reputable alcoholic concoctions. Concoctions such as these were also used to help wounds scar in a healthier manner. Her doctor and Minnie feed her strange and foul concoctions. I have not the least doubt that any such allegations are sheer concoctions and falsifications. As best as is known, all of these allegations are deliberate, fraudulent concoctions. It's not about cutting-edge techniques or never-heard-before concoctions.