Simple Four Thieves Vinegar Recipe for Magic, Four Ingredients

Years ago I made a whole elaborate post on the true history (and recipe) for Four Thieves Vinegar. However, by the time this famous mixture was being adopted into hoodoo, the recipe was often modified into something other than the original. Indeed, the original is quite elaborate -- sometimes one wishes for a nice simple four-ingredient version to make at home instead. 

This recipe is taken from a genuine 19th century source, and is like what many hoodoo practitioners at the time would have had available to them.

The following is a convenient way of preparing it for overpowering the unpleasant odors of a sick-room: Take of tops of rosemary, dried, one ounce; sage leaves, dried, one ounce; lavender flowers, dried, half an ounce; cloves, bruised, half a drachm; boiling water, half a pint; acetic acid [i.e. vinegar], one pint. Add the acid after the other ingredients have infused in the water an hour. In this state of combination, vinegar is extremely agreeable and refreshing, both to the invalid and the attendants of the sick room.