Large labs and biotechs are on the way to saving the planet from Covid. In the past, doctors and pharmacists have already developed remedies for the ailments of their time, which have since become objects of everyday consumption.
1880. At a time when the great era of colonial trading posts begins to decline, the world still trades spices, silk, tea, porcelain and rubber across the seas.
And, if the contestation of colonial policy rises in the France of the Third Republic, it is in this atmosphere of declining European imperialism that Léon Lajaunie, a small pharmacist from Toulouse, will have the idea that will change his life.
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Installed in his pharmacy in the heart of Toulouse, in the district of Esquirol, he studies with interest the powder of cashew, a brownish ingredient obtained by decoction of palm trees or acacias.
Already commonly sold in pharmacies for its digestive properties, the ingredient intrigued the apothecary, who adapted the recipe.
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