Dr. Carstair's 1869 Love Root Elixir (1972) 720P

Before the development of anesthesia, antibiotics, and pharmaceutically developed pain relievers, patent medicines and magic elixirs were widely used. Strep throat and common infections were quite deadly. These medicines or elixirs were sold as cure-alls for a wide range of ailments, promising relief that doctors could not. These concoctions contained alcohol, opium, morphine, or cocaine, which could provide temporary relief or a sense of well-being, leading users to believe in their effectiveness. The last half of the 19th century became the Golden Era of Patent Medicines. Entrepreneurs began to bottle and sell “old family recipes,” and it became big business. There were traveling wagons throughout the country in the 1800s that made homemade versions of these magic elixirs and sold them at mining camps, to loggers, at carnivals, festivals, or just about anywhere where there were laborers or a gathering.

This brings us to this film. Dr. Carstair has a magic elixir with laudanum and an Indian love root that bring vigor and vitality. Along with his daughter, they travel the countryside selling the potion. They happen to go back to their old town where Dr. Carstair still owns an abandoned gold mine, and wouldn't you know the Saloon Owner has found a large vein of gold and has been extracting all the gold for himself. Dr Carstair makes things right. He takes the extracted gold as payment and gives the mine to the Saloon Owner - at gun point of course - and he takes all the women, deciding to start a traveling Love Root Elixir Harem.