
One of the oldest remedies still sold: traditional Haarlem oil drops for adults.

The Lennon Dutch medicines are living pharmaceutical history: remedies from the seventeenth-century Dutch apothecary tradition, carried to the Cape and kept in continuous production because South African households still ask for them by name. They are tinctures and balsams of the old pharmacopoeia, sold today as traditional remedies whose value is cultural continuity and comfort ritual rather than trial evidence, and the pharmacist's craft with this shelf is respect for the tradition combined with firm modern limits: small doses, adults, short use, and a doctor for anything real. Duiwelsdrek, asafoetida tincture, is the pungent gum resin of the tradition, taken in drops for winds and unease and pinned to infants' clothing in folk custom; the drops are alcohol-based and belong to adults only.
A meaningful share of the community treats minor ailments from this shelf first and judges a pharmacy by whether it stocks the authentic names. Serving that tradition honestly is both good practice and good business. Stocking the authentic range also keeps these remedies inside a pharmacist-counselled sale, which is where their limits get explained.
| Brand | Lennon |
|---|---|
| Category | Dutch & Traditional Remedies |
| Key ingredient | Asafoetida (Ferula) tincture (alcohol-based) |
| Product code | 877093008 |
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