Common Sense Corner

[yamina-chan]

I think it's not so much the fact that the potions are Ancient, what makes them strong, but the fact that BECAUSE it's ancient, it comes from a diffrent background of knowledge; possibly a diffrent culture.
If you think about it, there are a lot of treatments and types of medicin that are specific to a certain part of the world, or a culture. Chinease medicin is said to be a powerfull one, shames are known to have healing powers, other types of treatment for illness aind injuries might not be taught to those who study to become doctors these days but can in fact still work.

There is nothing wrong with having some ancient knowledge be surperior to current one, as long as it doesn't apply to everyting. (Maybe the potion made fom terraberrys really does heal wounds faster then anything else, but the potion made from snarkleaf actually has some nasty sideffects if you take to much.)